Out standing sandy views

Delightful group dinners

Educational and fun

The main focus of the Year Ten Outdoor Education trip was to develop students understanding of leadership skills and how they can apply these skills in an outdoor setting. The trip was planned so that students would have ample time to work effectively and efficiently as a group. The students walked in there two tutor groups and navigated using compass, maps and a GPS navigating their way between different rocky outcrops. 
Students planned and prepared their own meal on the first and on the second night cooked a communal meal on a camp fire. Nightly debriefs and journal reflections highlighted both the strengths and weakness of the group and provoked students to develop strategies that they could apply the following day to improve if needed.
The two highlights for the majority of the students was the fire watch activity, in which the students took shifts at different times during the night to keep the fire going and also the expedition up to the top of the highest Jebel in the area where students were greeted with a spectacular sunset.

Please find below some pictures of the trip as well as some of the comments that the students wrote about what they learnt about leadership on the trip as well as some of the poems that they wrote on the trip.

     

The most important thing you learnt about leadership on this trip was….

We have to tolerate all people in our group and help them when they are in need.

Be patient and understanding

You have to listen to others opinions

You need to communicate to be able to succeed in this journey

To encourage other people

Ask for everybody’s ideas

With leadership comes trust

Stick together

A team can’t function without a leader.

Climbing the mountain

Getting there first

I must have used my energy burst.

Extremes

Extremely hot

Extremely cold

       In between

Extremely hypes

Extremely tired

       In between

Extremely fast

Extremely slow

      In between

Extremes- in one ODE.

My last ODE was this one

I will really miss you all

Climbing up the mountains, trying not to fall

That I will remember for the rest of my life.