Outdoor Education
Welcome to Outdoor Education
“Anything un-attempted remains impossible”
Are you looking for fun, adventure, challenge and want to learn skills in an outdoor classroom? Look no further than Outdoor Education.
Outdoor education is a medium that provides a wide variety of learning opportunities across a range of subject areas. Learn practical skills like kayaking, bush skills and rock climbing, but at the same time develop:
- Personal Confidence and Growth
- Developing Trust in yourself and others
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Responsibility for yourself and others,
- Organisation skills
- Awareness of the environment.
Outdoor Education at William Colenso is about getting out into the New Zealand natural environment. Students will learn about that environment, challenge themselves and gain skills that will allow them to continue to enjoy the outdoor for years to come.
Students will experience:
- Rock Climbing
- Kayaking
- Tramping
- Caving
- Cycling / Mountain Biking
- Skiing
- High Ropes
- Orienteering
We offer Senior Outdoor Education as modular learning options. What this means is:
- All Students can access outdoor education in the senior school with-out having to commit to it in a subject line.
- Students choose which modules they want to do, and only what they want to do.
- Students can plan how much outdoor education they do based on; future vocational pathways e.g. want to be an outdoor instructor, other subject workloads, interest areas e.g. want to learn to kayak only, financial considerations.
- Students can spread the learning over 3-4 years. (Years 10’s can access level 1 outdoor education modules)
The program is NZQA unit standard based and is Outdoor mark approved for safety. With high quality instructors and a huge pool of equipment, this continues to be one of the best outdoor programs in schools, in New Zealand.
