Orienteering November 22, 2006
Posted by Bill in : A Curriculum for Excellence, Outdoor Learning , trackback
We have been running orienteering days recently for the last few weeks with more to do in January. These have been aimed at Primary Schools in East Lothian. Today I was thinking how well these work for so many as a positive learning experience. It’s success seems to be in the way pupils can learn experientially so quickly. From virtually no map skills in some cases to completing a variety of courses in a couple of hours.
They have an instant measure of success and there is loads of room for progression. Using different environments for learning (i.e. different venues) seems to help too and the skills learned tie in to the curriculum and of course the Curriculum For Excellence….with the pupils arriving with a high level of “enthusiasim and motivation for learning” and definitley contributes to developing “confident individuals”
At Newhailes today the pupils excelled and all possible with co-operation from the National Trust Scotland for allowing us to use the venue (Highly Supportive). Thanks for the support of Primary staff and helpers.
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I think Orienteering is great from a group work point of view and from a cross curricular point of view. It has geography, PE, environmental awareness and problem solving written all over it. We have recently paid someone to map Musselburgh Grammar School. Its costing us £80 – not a lot of cash. Wouldn’t it be great if we could get all secondary schools (I think primary maps already exist?) mapped in the same way. Think of the transition opportunities from primary to secondary eg, ‘today you are going orienteering at secondary school’. Is there any way that outdoor education could support schools in getting their grounds mapped. I know that I’ve blogged about this before http://www.exc-el.org.uk/content/index.p…) , but its an area I’ve not revisited in a while.
Yes we have looked at mapping of the secondary schools. I think I need to speak with the sports co-ordinators for the schools to get this moving. This could be run as a session during secondary PE as well as having the cross curricular themes. But yes we aould look at mapping them within outdoor ed if we could get the commitment for the schools to use them.
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