Outdoor Routes Programme PAVE’s the way for pupil success.

 

PAVE CanalIt’s been an amazing few months working with PAVE on their youth engagement Routes programme. Using a blend of classroom, vocational and Outdoor Learning the pupils will gain several awards.

The Outdoor Learning Team have been delivering a paddlesports programme with the learners gaining the SCA 1 star award that involved trying out a range of paddlesport craft to enable the learning of new skills, then a final day journeying on the famous Union Canal from Ratho to Broxburn in open Canoe. The team tried soloing and also tandem canoeing and negotiating themselves around narrowboats travelling on this famous waterway.

The next stage will involve indoor climbing with the pupils working towards their Level 1 NICAS award and then supporting some of their classroom programme, i.e navigation to numeracy, using outdoor hill walking to gain their NNAS bronze award.

This unique blend of experiential learning helps support success in the Routes programme and supports achievement in the vocational qualifications that underpin the programme.

More details of the Routes Programme and enabling personal paths to progress, can be found below;

http://midlothianroutes.wix.com/routes