Outdoor Education & CCF (continued)
social and ecological changes, consolidated a wider range of views within the students creating a more empathetic approach to who and what we affect when leading others in the countryside.
BASIC EXPEDITION LEADER AWARD
The team were in excellent spirits and were given the position of the minibus and had to devise a strategy to get there. Planning a good strategy the team set off for the bus, but it became apparent that they may not have all understood the strategy and therefore made hard work of returning to the bus. Although this is an
The level 3 candidates’ have gained a mammoth amount of knowledge and subject understanding. It has been a significant learning experience with the students beginning to understand the remit and duty of care of an expedition leader. How professional operating procedures allow for good practice when they leading groups, thus the candidates are truly learning what this award licences them to offer and achieve, whilst identifying how much responsibility accompanies this qualification.
Thus far, they have studied Adventurous Licensing and the requirements upon professional centres. What operating procedures must the professional have in place, why it is a requirement and what legislation are they accountable to. Alongside reviewing insurance policies for individuals and organisations in the event of an incident, how to manage and the process of “lessons learnt” from an incident.
Not all classroom based! The group have been away to support our bunkhouse expeditions with the ten tors
invaluable experience for the group to learn, we look forward to seeing their resilience to navigate and plan on the next training expedition.
Overall our two trips have been successful, we head off to the Black Mountains at the end of March, to keep working towards our goal of being self-sufficient ahead of the Ten Tors Challenge. Should training go to plan, the team will be provided the opportunity to work independently under remote supervision conditions.
ASSISTANT BASIC EXPEDITION LEADER AWARD
Our Level 2 candidates are progressing through the syllabus and beginning to demonstrate strong communication and planning skills. Completing units in Leadership and Environmental awareness, they have now progressed onto lesson planning and delivery. The students are preparing and refining sessions to deliver to our local primary schools in the summer, thus far we have covered presentation skills and planning to ensure that the candidates can deliver engaging and exciting activities.
During Unit 3, the students covered categories of the environmental effects that we can have as outdoor professionals. Considering the perspectives of physical,
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group and expedition experience groups. A part of this qualification is knowing about the range of expeditions that can be organised and what clientele they would be working with in specific accommodations. The group took away, that within a bunkhouse environment you can achieve a better rapport with your clients and the atmosphere is different to that of a camping expedition. They were tasked with planning and delivering a navigation skill to the students whilst away and the progress they are making is extremely positive.
We now move toward their training course, candidates will cover micro navigation identifying how to find small targets. The expedition and managing yourself and group, followed by remit awareness, what do they identify as the basic expedition leader remit and the limitations of their qualification.
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