Introduction Day on John Muir Award
Introduction to the John Muir Award as a framework for Outdoor Learning
The John Muir Award is an environmental Award scheme. It encourages people to enjoy, connect with, and care for the planet’s wild places. The Award can provide an environmental focus for curriculum studies and extra curricular activities, from Year 5 onwards.
Who is the course for?: teachers, head teachers, classroom assistants and all who support learning outdoors.
Where:Brockhole - The Lake District Visitor Centre (opens in new window)
When: 30 September 2011
Time: 10am – 3pm
Cost: £15 including lunch and refreshments
What to bring: Indoor and outdoor shoes, suitable clothing for outdoors.
Background information: Please look at the John Muir Award website (opens in new window) before joining the training.
What's on offer?
The day will help you:
- find out about the John Muir Award, and how it works
- gain ideas and share good practice in using the John Muir Award to support Outdoor Learning in your school
- see existing John Muir Award activity
- get some simple ideas for taking Learning Out of the classroom
Bonus trip!
Teachers attending will be offered a free supported visit to Brockhole for their class to be taken before the end of April 2012.
Interested?
Put this date in your diary and contact Graham Watson to register your interest and book a place. Email cumbria@johnmuiraward.org, call 01539 792 653 or write to John Muir Award, Blencathra Centre, Threlkeld, Keswick CA12 4SG
Feedback
Jake Perry, PT Enterprise Beeslack Community High School:
"Using the John Muir Award framework has encouraged our pupils to explore their familiar, everyday environment, to look at it with new insight and appreciation, to take responsibility for it. The project has been a genuinely motivating and enjoyable educational experience for both pupils and staff."
Matthew Ellis, Outdoor Learning and Educational Visits Consultant, Cumbria County Council Children's Services
"Cumbria has a fantastic teaching resource in its outstanding natural environment which we should be making more use of. The John Muir Award provides a great framework for bringing together enjoyment of the outdoors and learning about how we need to value and take responsibility for our environment. I don’t hesitate to recommend it to Cumbria’s teachers."