Outdoor Education - Life skills 

This half term we will be taking students to a farm in Frithelstock to weigh sheep. We will continue to visit Marwood Milk for students to learn budgeting and money skills. These visits will also educate students about where our food comes from. 

We will be conducting beach cleans and learning about conservation. We will be experiencing the passenger ferry from Instow to Appledore as part of the Water Safety Week and we will be learning about the Lunar cycle, tides and currents. 

Outdoor Education and PE

Continuing on from their learning last term, students will continuing 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 coastal locations and looking at sea creatures including Crabs.

We have visits planned for National Water Safety Week to Braunton Surf Museum and Westward Ho! Life Guard Hut to talk about beach and water safety for Outdoor Education. 

For PE the students will be developing balance and teamwork skills by building low rope obstacle courses and playing various improvised games.

Thursday's we will be visited by an English Netball coach who will be running sessions for all Students. 

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