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Programmes
Experiential environmental workshops
The environmental days or half day workshops are aimed at both Primary and secondary level.
Life Skills Education supports the belief that in order to create a sustainable and meaningful relationship with the natural world, young people need to be given opportunities to be outside and to submerge themselves in the natural world. We encourage wherever possible workshops to take place out of the classroom, even if it is only in the play ground or on the playing fields.
All activities lend themselves to the direct experience, using as many senses as possible! Staff are extremely experienced within the field of environmental education and wilderness skills and are able to draw on a variety of tools to inspire and educate the young people.
Activities may include:
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Solo-time
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Camera Kids
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Greet a tree
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Big foot
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Conundrum Hunt
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Bear Nose
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Deer ears
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Energy Pyramid
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Web of Life
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Make a whistle from a branch or a dream catcher
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Specific cultural role plays
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Story telling – stories that relate directly to the earth and animals
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Large group environmental and indigenous- based games
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History of drumming and music
What are the costs?
Half day workshops: Start from £240
All day environmental days: Start from £400
All workshops include two facilitators and resources are supplied.
Sustainable development in the curriculum
Sustainable development (SD) is not being introduced as a curriculum subject in the way Citizenship and PSHE were. Instead, it will permeate teaching across the curriculum at all ages, much as the Literacy and Numeracy strategies have done. SD will be a teaching requirement in some subjects (Science, Citizenship/PHSE, Design and Technology, Geography and other subjects) but it can also be delivered through other subjects.
Aim 2 of the National Curriculum includes the statement:
“It (the National Curriculum) should develop (pupil’s) awareness and understanding of, and respect of, the environments in which they live, and secure their commitment to sustainable development at a personal, local, national and global level. It should also equip pupils as consumers to make informed judgments and independent decisions and to understand their responsibilities and rights.”
Life Skills Education is at the forefront of education for sustainable development .
We support sustainable development objectives but want to be at the cutting edge of education, that is experiential and relevant to minds and bodies of young people. The complexity of the National Curriculum means that the ‘bigger picture’ of life is hardly ever glimpsed at. LSE works towards the development of whole individuals, drawing on the four aspects of human nature: the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual, which must be equally developed to be a healthy, well balanced individual.
The key role in education must play in forming positive habits for a lifetime. The new Sustainable Development Commission wants to see all UK schools equipping young people for an insecure, rapidly changing world and acting as catalysts to identify local solutions to social and environmental problems. The path to a secure future for all of us lies in active global citizenship, community involvement, social inclusion, good corporate practice and lifelong learning – the foundations for all of which can be laid at school.
“The Sustainable Development Commission has hit the nail on the head in identifying that the path to sustainability is not too difficult; the real challenge is galvanizing the UK’s collective will and imagination to go down that path. That is where the focus of effort must be.”
Sir John Harman, Chairman, Environment Agency
Life Skills Education is part of a future education being realised today.
UN-DECADE-OF-EDUCATION-FOR-SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (DESD) (2005 – 2014)
The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) was officially launched at UN Headquarters in New York on 1st March 2005, by UNESCO’s Director General Koichiro Matsuura. They aim to see Education for Sustainable Development implemented in thousands of local situations on the ground, involving the integration of the principles of SD into a multitude of different learning situations.
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