green space

Students at the best private schools have ten times more green space than state students

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Children at Britain’s top 250 private schools have more than ten times as much outdoor space as those attending state schools, an exclusive Guardian analysis can reveal. A schoolboy paying Eton has access to 140 times more green space than the average student at an English state school, the analysis shows. Experts condemned the ‘staggering’ … Read more

Green space could actually be better for young brains than we thought

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Public schools are onto something as they lead their students out of the classroom and into the fresh air. Exposure to green space reduces behavioral problems, gives children a cognitive boost and, according to recent studies, can even lead to better school performance. Proponents of Britain’s burgeoning forest school movement, inherited from Scandinavian outdoor kindergarten … Read more