The Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto, launched in 2006, is intended to be a ‘movement’, or joint undertaking which many stakeholders create and which anyone can sign up to. The main aim is to provide all children and young people between 3 -19 with a variety of high quality learning experiences outside a classroom environment, whether during school, after school or during school holidays.
These experiences can take place in the school grounds, local nature reserves and wild places, city farms and parks, streetscapes, field study centres, farms and the countryside, remote wild and adventurous places, heritage and cultural sites, zoos and botanic gardens, places of worship, museums, theatres, galleries and music venues and on cultural, language and fieldwork visits abroad. The Manifesto can involve everyone who sees the benefits to young people, such as Government, Head Teachers, governors, teachers and support staff, parents, local authorities, community and voluntary organisations, curriculum subject bodies, businesses and all those agencies that provide external support to schools.