Outdoor Learning FEATURES
Outdoor Learning is a major strength of Macmillan and the students willingly engage in the exciting range of opportunities which are provided.
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Outdoor Practitioners
Our core outdoor learning teaching staff come from the outdoor learning sector, bringing the technical skills and qualifications to lead our students in the outdoors. They are outdoor leaders who know how to balance the skills of teaching, facilitation and coaching to maximise the learning opportunities for our students. There is an extended team of qualified staff who support the programme.
The Outdoor Learning Curriculum
At the core of our curriculum in Key Stage 3, every student is timetabled to take part in a two day intensive programme each year, balanced with three weeks of intensive provision on residential and during our challenge week programme. In Key Stages 4 and 5, pathways exist for students within PE for specific sport based development.
Outstanding Outdoor Learning
At the heart of the mission and belief in outdoor learning is the desire to continually develop and be creative with our own teaching practice. We will continually challenge, review and evaluate our performance.
Risk Management
Outdoor Learning has the capacity to influence students in an extremely positive manner. A degree of risk is a feature of almost all outdoor activities and the way in which this risk is managed and taught is central to the provision of these activities at Macmillan Academy.
Macmillan Academy aims to provide outdoor learning of lasting impact at a level of exposure to risk that is at a similar level to that experienced during classroom activities.
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