Outdoor Experience Capability
Capability Aims |
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| Students build their knowledge and skills through outdoor experiences, developing a level of comfort and connection to natural environments.
Students learn about the importance of nature in promoting positive wellbeing. |
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Skills, Wellbeing, Connection |
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Skills |
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| Develop technical outdoor skills to ensure safety, competence and a level of comfort in the outdoors. | |
Wellbeing |
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| Understand how the outdoor environment impacts on physical, psychological and social wellbeing.
Explore and discuss strategies to promote positive wellbeing. |
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Connection |
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| Acknowledge and develop connections to the outdoor environment through immersion in sensory experiences and understand how this varies between individuals and places. |
Achievement Standards – by the end of Level 10. |
Skills |
| Students develop technical skills allowing them to engage in outdoor activities safely.
Students demonstrate an increase in their level of comfort and engagement in the outdoors. |
Wellbeing |
| Students identify and explain the link between different ways of experiencing the outdoors and a person’s physical, psychological and social wellbeing. |
Connection |
| Students describe their own connection to the outdoor environment and how this may vary between places.
Students demonstrate an understanding of how other people’s connections to outdoor environments vary. |