- September 28th, 2011
National Parks Pupil Residential Programme
- ahammerton
- Comments: noneTags: national parks, outdoor learning
In early September, 38 Senior pupils from a number of different schools and settings across Highland, Moray, Angus and West Dunbartonshire were brought together for four days at Loch Lomond Outdoor Centre, as part of the Outdoor Learning in the National Parks project. The focus was to provide the pupils with a range of challenging and fun outdoor experiences in the beautiful setting of the National Park to learn about leadership and personal development. This is the first such event, with a similar residential exchange programme planned for 2012 in the Cairngorms National Park - which some of the pupils from this year’s programme will hopefully help to organise.
Delegates at the Outdoor Learning in the National Parks conference will also get a chance to hear first hand from some of the pupils involved as they will be sharing their learning in a wokshop. All pupils were undertaking a John Muir Award as part of the residential, and as part of the sharing challenge were returning to their own schools and authorities ready to present or exhibit their experiences with local pupils and staff.
The event was an overall success, with each pupil being challenged, and rising to those challenges, in different ways. One such challenge for many was to offer a presentation of some description on their final day, in groups mixed from the different schools, to a group of teachers who were arriving for a CPD weekend. While nearly all pupils were anxious about this, their presentations were excellent and many took the teachers outdoors to show them what they had experienced and learnt.
Visit the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs website to read the full article: http://www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/looking-after/national-parks-provide-the-perfect-outdoor-classroom/menu-id-483.html
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