“Vision Express” February 6, 2007
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In the dark days of February The outdoor team has a bit more time to discuss and plan. We have been looking at the East Lothian Outdoor Education Service Strategy. Its up for renewal - reworking i.e. our last business plan and strategy document covered the period 2004-2007. As with all organisations we got hung up on the “what should our vision statement communicate about our organisation?” question. How do we convey what we are doing and what we will continue to improve on in one statement? And is it actually a vision statement (future) or a mission statement? (present).
Here is what we came up with:
“East Lothian Council’s Outdoor Education service provides high quality, safe, reliable and sustainable outdoor learning opportunities. The service promotes progressive, experiential learning, responding to the needs of East Lothians Schools and the wider community”
The major changes being that we have ditched the “will provides.. ” (as we do and will continue), adventure ( as outdoor learning we feel covers all that and more!). we have added “progressive” - to try and explain that we are moving towards and building more developmental style courses but still appreciating a use for taster style sessions. The last sentance should convey our need to develop and grow with the needs of the community which involves adapting to new initiatives i.e. A Curriculum for Excellence & political change.
All we have to do now is build the strategy…..and put it down on paper.
