Helping Local Schools Rediscover the Great Outdoors

While we’ve been busy with our school residential, activity days and DofE Gold residential groups this year we’ve also been helped a number of local schools experience learning outside the classroom. Working within the guidelines in place at the time, we were able to provide fun outdoor experiences that encouraged students to work together in a different but safe environment.

Through a variety of outdoor adventure sessions we were able to achieve various of learning outcomes. These included building confidence, improving leadership qualities and developing new motor and social skills.

Outdoor adventure activity day in Swanage

We organised an activity day for year 6 pupils at St Mary’s Swanage which included tag archery and rifle shooting at our camp ground on the shores of Poole Harbour. One of the teachers, Rebecca, was so pleased we were able to organise the day and gave our team some wonderful feedback.

“We loved being out in the middle of nowhere, enjoying the fresh air and an environment some children did not know existed”.

We also ran an activity day for 64 year 6 pupils from Sandford St Martin Primary School. They enjoyed a round-robin day in July which included tag archery, rifle shooting and bushcraft. In fact they enjoyed the day so much that next summer we’re organising an activity residential overnight on-site at the school!