GetOutside Day

 

I hope you have something planned for today!

Between 2018 and 2020 I worked as a GetOutside Champion for the Ordnance Survey: part of a team of people in various locations around the country encouraging people to get outside in different ways. Some of them were athletes, bloggers, Instagrammers, runners, paralympians and TV personalities. I was just a geography teacher using my blogging and role to encourage fieldwork and other outdoor activities in the curriculum. We added a Fieldwork Week to my Presidential year, with thanks to Paula Richardson for her efforts there, and expanded it to a Fieldwork Fortnight last year.

There is plenty of advice on the Ordnance Survey's page for this day when people are encouraged to spend time outdoors.

And don't forget to follow the Countryside Code.

National GetOutside Day

Today is National GetOutside Day. 

The weather has not been ideal here in Norfolk today, but have managed to get out between the showers and hoping the rain clears later for a photography trip to a nearby linseed field.

I want to GetOutside like Common People...

Tomorrow is the Ordnance Survey GetOutside Day and I am going to get outside - of course.

Some of my fellow Champions are leading walks and helping out with other events as well around the country.
I have decided to try to visit as many of the Commons in Norfolk as I can within the day, and walk around or across them. Some are quite small, and others are larger. I shall start with the one in my village, and then plot a course around Breckland and see where I end up... Follow the progress on my Twitter feed tomorrow. I shall be using the OS Maps app to help locate and plot a route between them.

This is to tie in with the end of Norfolk Commons Week.
This is organised by the Norfolk Wildlife Trust, of which I am a member and have supported their work for many years. Back in the day, I used to teach about common lands, and the rights of commoners, to include pannage and turbary. This was part of the 'A' level Geography spec at the time.

Don't forget the photo competition which are running within King's Ely for pupils from years 3-9.

GetOutside Day Competition Poster - for printing the logo if required

Ordnance Survey GO Comp by Alan Parkinson on Scribd

GetOutside Day competition

Win prizes... open to King's Ely students in Years 3-9