Course Aims:
• Gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver safe and effective OAA sessions on a school site.
• Plan, deliver and review a variety of outdoor and adventurous activities with increasing competence.
• Explore practical challenges that develop social skills, teamwork, communication, cooperation, decision-making and trust.
• Understand key principles of risk management when delivering learning outside the classroom.
• Learn how to make outdoor learning exciting, adventurous and strongly linked to character education.

This practical, outdoor-based course supports teachers in confidently delivering engaging and challenging Outdoor and Adventurous Activities (OAA) as part of the PE National Curriculum. The training explores a wide range of progressive physical challenges, team-building tasks, trails and orienteering activities suitable for pupils from Year 1 to Year 6—all of which can be delivered safely on a school site.

Teachers will explore sequences of learning within OAA, discover how to stretch and challenge all pupils (including the more able), and develop approaches that build key character education skills such as resilience, teamwork and problem-solving.

As this is a practical outdoor course, staff should wear appropriate outdoor clothing and footwear..