New Outdoor Program in 2012 for Pittwater House
It is with great excitement that in 2012 Pittwater House School will be providing a new outdoor education program to support the development of our students. The program is run by the Outdoor Education Group, which is an independent not-for-profit organisation, that was founded in 1984 and focuses on outdoor experiential learning.
The new program supports and reinforces the School's pastoral curriculum in the most practical of settings. It is structured so students work together in small, professionally facilitated groups, and deals directly with concepts such as leadership, inclusiveness and the value of working towards a common goal. Each program is hosted in a semi-remote location within Australia - to remove the participants from 'normal' life.
The outdoor education program will run throughout Junior and Senior Schools and will build to a final optional expedition in Year 11. All programs will be run with small groups of around twelve students each, accompanied by a qualified Outdoor Education Leader and a school staff member. Specialist instructors join the group wherever necessary e.g. canoeing.
The outdoor education program at Pittwater House is a sequential program (i.e. each phase builds on and reinforces previous learning) which runs from Year 3 to Year 11. Each Year group has its own tailored program that aims to extend the pastoral (and where practical, the academic) elements of the school curriculum into a guided 'learning by doing' environment out of doors.
I look forward to launching this initiative in the New Year and feel confident that it will provide a new depth of development for our students.
Our new outdoor education offering will be replacing the Country Life Scheme run at Abercrombie House.
Principal
Dr Nancy Hillier
2012 Progam