Curriculum Enrichment – Through Outdoor Learning

What is curriculum enrichment through outdoor learning?
Curriculum enrichment is about enhancing learning through outdoor activities all related to the curriculum. It could involve team building activities where pupils / students work as a team to cross the crocodile swamp, it could be constructing a working shaduf and irrigating part of the school field, or making a wattle and daub house, using a pirate map to find buried treasure, making a fire and cooking pizzas, building a fairy garden, or using thinking skills to identify different types of rock, investigating soil, or building different styles of animal houses, or:

• On site activities, we can bring our activities to your school.
• Off site activities, we can deliver highly focused sessions at dedicated sites. For example, geology and geography on a hill walking session.
• Team building and problem-solving activities.
• Residential visits, we provide adventure activity residential visits with a strong emphasis on curriculum enrichment through outdoor learning.

Whichever activities are involved, we guarantee the youngsters will be learning by doing, thinking outside the box, working as a team, getting muddy, speaking, listening, thinking and most important of all – having fun as they learn. Pinpoint Adventure is fully committed  to the increasing body of evidence which shows that being outdoors is simply a wonderful  learning environment; as Hilary Harriman comments in her book The Outdoor Classroom ‘In many cases, the outdoor environment is far more practical and more effective for some learning experiences than the indoor environment’.

The list of possible themes and activities involved in curriculum enrichment is huge, but a small selection would include: life in a developing country, India, explorers, water, rivers, beach studies, geology and volcanoes, rocks and soils, animals and animal houses, Anglo-Saxons, indigenous peoples around the world, life as a lead miner, speaking and listening, problem solving, team work activities / team building sessions, forest schools and bushcraft.