Melissa Chan-Green
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Hi and welcome to School Shorts with me, Melissa Chan-Green, journalist and mum of two with a passion for education.
In this episode, we're talking about outdoor education and particularly what that looks like in primary school years.
But we're also looking at the benefits for families and how you can bring some of those skills and experiences into the things that you are doing with your kids at the weekend or after school.
We're speaking with Harry Scott, who runs the Barefooted programme.
They run programmes across schools in Auckland, as well as programmes for families across the city's parks.
Harry, thank you so much for joining us.
So where did this idea come from?
How long has Barefooted been around since the original idea?
There might be some people that go, can you recreate a school camp experience in a school?
Because I have actually been along with you to a school, I have seen that, yes, you definitely can.
And I'm going to ask you about how you do that soon.
But I just want to stay a little with about how this idea came about, because...
not only were schools not able to do certain things because of COVID, but you were seeing kind of before that a lot of schools saying it's actually getting a little too hard to go on camp or some schools kind of maybe had more resource to do it than others.
So that was a concern for you too, right?
And bringing it into kind of their everyday life, whether it's at the weekend with family or just equipping them with the skills to be comfortable in the outdoors and know how to interact with it.
What age are we talking about?
You're talking about seven-year-olds in New Zealand where we are so blessed with abundant, beautiful grass fields and beaches and parks that there would be seven-year-olds who would be uncomfortable in that environment.
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