One school in the Spanish region of Murcia is doing things differently and taking the classroom outside and onto the beach.

After a year of remote learning and socially distanced classrooms, children aged from three to 12 from the Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente school sit in front of a portable chalkboard from rows of green desks spaced out on the beach shores.

The lessons are a part of a larger project known as Fresh Air which aims to create better quality air for children during the pandemic, including open-air learning.

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English teacher Juan Francisco Martinez said that the new plan to combine clear air with a new way of teaching is "amazing."

"It's safe," he said. "Children are having great fun and unbelievable learning because what they learn here they don't forget, it's unbelievable."

When the school day begins at 8 a.m. eight classes take part in 20-minute lessons, and groups rotate through the different areas on the beach. As some children hold their workbooks down amid the wind, others play xylophones.

But it's not just teachers supporting the move to open-air learning. Volunteers from a nearby residents' association have been dressing up as Romans, and local fishermen have shown the children how to fish.

While the schoolchildren remain in their class bubbles, so far, there have been no positive reported cases of COVID-19.