Outdoor Education - Life skills 

This half term we will be taking Rockham to Marwood Milk  to have experience of making choices and budgeting. We will then venture into Barnstaple to reinforce some road safety. We will also be visiting Croyde and Bude; for these lessons we will be shopping for our picnic lunches. This allows students to practice collective decision making and budgeting. We will then be making our lunches it when we arrive at destination, another great life skill for students to develop. After lunch we will be enjoying some sand surfing and hangman in the sand.

Outdoor Education and PE

Starting on site for Outdoor Education the students will be creating their own maps. This will allow them to practice ground orientation and basic map to ground recognition skills. 

Over a period of weeks the students will be visiting various locations both coastal and rural to learn about the ground, population and infrastructure growth - learning map skills along the way.

For PE the students will be developing their balance, teamwork and throwing. They will be building low rope obstacles and various improvised games. All off which the above will be developing TRUST LEADERSHIP AND CONFIDENCE 

INTENT

We believe that being outside of the classroom will help increase our student’s social skills through the development of positive engagement communication skills. Working within the schools THRIVE approach, the expansive Outdoor Education Programme delivers a positive driven experience to enable students to step out of their comfort zone and provides many opportunities for students to gain confidence in their abilities, work together and promote individual success.

IMPLEMENTATION

Outdoor Education will be delivered in a variety of experience’s from being in local play parks to develop social skills and to being taken out on adventurous learning to develop leadership, team skills and to help overcome individual limitations to step out of the student’s comfort zones. Forrest school will be utilised to teach basic out door skills and create a relaxed THRIVE environment.

Sports will play a key roll with the use of local sports muggers, leisure centres for swimming and inter- school competitions in the form of football, basketball and cross-country to name a few. Educational visits will create and alternative learning environment alongside achievable

In- house awards.

IMPACT

This delivery will impact on the student’s social development, gaining confidence in new areas developing leadership skills, emotional understanding and mindset.

Working together as a team within tutor groups or mixed tutor groups will create a social environment with the age range of years 7-11 secondary. Often, Instructor lead activities will give the students confidence in trust with some reward-based activities which will then lead on to Students taking their own lead under close supervision which then again gain confidence in trust with decision making.

T - Trust

L - Leadership

C - Confidence