Useful Links

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• http://www.seaham.com/coastalcentre
  Durham County Council's have an outdoor learning centre, at Seaham, for day visits.
• http://www.onlineweather.com/v4/uk/city/Hexham.html
  The weather is always an important aspect of the day. Check out local weather for Durham.
• http://www.howtownoac.co.uk/
  Howtown Outdoor Activity Centre was run by the Local Education Authority but is now leased to a private company, it's very popular with county schools.
• http://www.outdoor-learning.org/
  The Institute for Outdoor Learning is the leading facilitating organisation for this form of education in Britain with international connections.
• http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/ or http://www.guides.org.uk/
  The Earls Orchard philosophy is close to that of the Scouts and Guides.
• http://www.theaward.org/
  The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, although for older youth, is close to the Earls Orchard philosophy.
• http://www.aala.org/
  Earls Orchard has a license for hill walking and mountaineering awarded by the Adventure Activities Licensing Authority (AALA).
• http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/ or http://www.nasa.gov
  A main interest of the centre is astronomy. The children often view the rings of Saturn, moons of Jupiter and the craters of the moon through the Centre's reflecting telescope. The best photos are at the NASA site.
• http://www.mcs.surrey.ac.uk
  "Maths is a means of looking at the patterns that make up our world and the intricate and beautiful ways in which they are constructed and realised..." A good site to look at about numbers.