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January 2026.
14 January.

The main purpose of our School of the Air is to line up some thought-provoking curiosity, to give the starter's gun to a young person's natural imagination and let their creativity run what ever race it wants, free from any formal boundaries and restrictions. Alongside that we want to inspire young people to get off their screens, once they've watched our videos, and go out into the big wide natural world and see for themselves, experience for themselves and appreciate the awe, wonder and beauty that nature has to offer. The material we uploaded during 2025 did just that and was, so we have heard, both successful and inspiring.

However, our ultimate aim when we started this section of our site was to provide a platform for young people to follow our planned journey through their country, learn more about that country than they ever would in a formal school setting and be inspired to go out there and have a look themselves and maybe meet us but whatever happens, to have loads of fun while learning, or even loads of fun while not realising they are learning

The chance to follow that journey will begin in August 2026 and will continue until the end of December 2028. It requires a massive amount of planning and research and, as such, we believe that if we tried to do that planning and still provide the daily videos we have through 2025, one of them would suffer.

We have therefore taken the decision to suspend new material on our site until those August uploads and concentrate on making ourselves ready, even over-ready, so that you will all have the highest quality of material at all times.

But don't despair. The material that we have on the site now in the School of the Air, plus that in the other four sections, can either be revisited or visited for the first time over the next seven months. To help you we will be putting little reels on our site and on social media giving you ideas of how to use things. But, a word of warning. Don't binge on our material. As we said at the very beginning we seek to arouse curiosity, ignite imagination and release creativity. Once you've watched a video give yourself or the young person the chance to do all of those things and this again is the reason we spoke about revisiting. If they go back and watch something, they almost certainly will find something new in it. Something different that they think of doing.

Enjoy the next seven months, have fun and let learning come naturally. But most importantly watch out for those reels and be ready to join us on the journey of a lifetime, which Richard is doing for the fourth time.