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Duration: Half to One day
Really Wild offers half day and full day courses ideally suited to the needs of each cohort. These can be delivered on school grounds, in nearby parks or in our wonderful woodlands.
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Activities
- Trust and communication exercises
- Bushcraft and survival skills
- Team activities and challenges
- Class topic themed tasks
- Personal development discussions and workshops
- Journalling
Learning Outcomes
- Bushcraft and other skills learned and practiced
- Equipped to thrive during key transition years
- Class topics understood and appreciated
- Confidence, resilience and wellbeing enhanced
- Knowledge and appreciation of the natural world absorbed
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Duration: One to four nights
Really Wild school camps are a fantastic opportunity for students to be inspired, to develop valuable age-appropriate life and academic skills and to experience how to really survive and thrive in the Wild – one of the most exciting and inspirational environments possible!
School camps can stand alone or be part of a larger programme of progressive learning that builds year on year as each pupil progresses through the school. They are equally applicable to primary, secondary and further education years. Find Out More
Activities
- Identification of UK Fauna and Flora including foods medicines and poisons!
- Fire craft – safety, ignition, uses, fire lays
- Backwoods cooking and wild medicines
- Use and evaluation of primitive technologies, animal signs and behaviour’s, stalking and tracking
- Use of woodland tools
- Search and rescue exercises
- Foraging for and the preparation of wild foods, nutrition and diet
- Rope craft, use of man-made shelters and tarpology
- Shelter building, camp craft and water purification
- Effective communication, leadership, teamwork
- Successful society and human development
- Team building and leadership challenges
- Night games, wide games, and Really Wild Olympics
Learning Outcomes
- Outdoor skills, understanding and appreciation of the natural environment.
- Personal development: attitude, confidence, resilience, self-reliance, self-discipline, empathy, teamwork, leadership, community, cognitive development and problem solving- using our methodology for success.
- Academic development: links to KS 1-5 Maths, Science Geography, History, Pre-History, Environmental Studies, PE, PSHE.
- Principles taught help young people in their preparation for school life and/or their transition between schools, to college, university or work.
All learning outcomes and personal development objectives are agreed with teaching staff beforehand and written into our team’s lesson plans to ensure everything we deliver is appropriate, completely relevant and has the most positive impact on the students we teach.
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Duration: 2 Days - 1 Night
DESIGNED TO GIVE STUDENTS A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE.
The Really Wild Survival Academy is the pinnacle of outdoor learning. Students learn the skills needed to survive and thrive outdoors in spring summer, autumn and winter, with winter being our most popular season for learning.
As the student's progress through our 3 different courses; introductory, intermediate and advanced levels, students have the opportunity to demonstrate a progression of learning and personal development that is second to none. The courses are also a tremendous addition to a DofE programme making young people better and safer outdoors in every respect.
The Survival Academy plugs perfectly into our Expeditions programme where the students can test their skills and build on them anywhere in the world! This foundation of exceptional learning is the backbone to what we do and will support any person into becoming a responsible and effective practitioner in whatever field they choose to enter.
Example Survival Course Outline
Students develop their bush craft and survival skills to an extremely high standard. On completion of these courses, students will be equipped with the knowledge, attitude and skills necessary to survive and thrive in even the most challenging of situations and environments. This applies equally to the outdoors as it does to other aspects of the students' lives. Students can also certify in being able to independently use a knife, saw and an axe, further adding to their personal development and skill. Find Out More
Activities
- Survival priorities and attitude
- Fire craft - safety, ignition, uses and a range of different fire lays
- Knife craft, safety, the law, carving and the use of other woodland tools
- Stalking and tracking, primitive technologies and tool design, use and evaluation of primitive weapons and tools
- Search and rescue, first aid, managing emergencies and trail blazing
- Foraging for and the preparation of wild foods and wild medicines
- Nutrition and diet, meal planning and backwoods cooking
- Wild navigation, compass and map use
- Rope craft, knots and tarpology
- Morse code and night navigation
- Shelter - natural and man made using multiple techniques
- Camp craft - safety, organisation and wood craft skills
- Sourcing water, filtration, purification and management
- Expedition planning, preparation and safety
- Effective communication, leadership, teamwork and lessons on successful society and human development.
Learning Outcomes
- KS3 and 4 and 5 Science
- KS3 and 4 and 5 Geography
- KS3 and 4 and 5 PE
- KS3 and 4 and 5 Design Technology
- KS3 and 4 Maths
- KS3 PSHRE
- Environmental studies and woodland management
- British Natural history and Evolution
- KS2 Pre-History