A natural history GCSE? It might help get our children outdoors | Michael McCarthy

The experts agree: children are too enclosed. Lessons about Britain’s flora and fauna could be the answerIt is now 12 years since the American author Richard Louv pointed out that something new and potentially very damaging was happening to children: they were retreating from the world of outside. Young people were no longer playing in the fields, woods and parks where their parents played, and they were losing contact with nature: for their leisure time, they were retreating back inside t