The pupils gathered in a group as the teacher explained what the aim of the lesson was such as; for each of the pupils to give it a go at climbing and to take it in turns with their peers, and what the safety rules were for climbing the rock walls as well as how to land on the soft flooring correctly for example: when you start to loss your balance and fall, you just land on your bottom, this was followed up by an demonstration. All of the pupils enjoyed having a go at climbing to the top or as far as they felt comfortable as they also communicated with encouragement to one another to achieve the goal of climbing the different shaped and sized walls.
This blog highlights the wealth of activities the children at Riversides School experience during their weekly Outdoor Education lessons. The range of opportunities coupled with the diverse settings we visit enable the children to explore and engage in learning in a wide variety of ways. This also allows for cross curricular links to ICT, English, Science and Maths.
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Thursday, December 3, 2020
walking around Habberley Valley and making a parachute with Year 9
The pupils showed an interest in putting up the parachute by swinging a rope and attaching it to a tree. The pupils each took a string to the parachute and with support tied the strings around a variety of branches to hold the parachute up. The pupils worked together to find the right size and length branches that could hold the string as one pupil said "these small branches won't hold the string but big ones will".
After we finished building the parachute the pupils showed an interest in walking around Habberley Valley looking and talking about what views they could see. While we were walking we saw some stairs leading to the top of the bank and followed the path up. As we walked back one of the pupils found a tyre and wanted to see how fast and far it would travel down the stairs. The pupil said "did you see that it is quick" encouraging their peers to join in. Near to the minibus the pupils saw a small cliff, climbed to the top of it and pushed the tyre down watching it bounce. Another pupil talked about how they pushed the type saying "I pushed it with the whole of my body and all of my strength".






