Wild Passport Outdoor Learning
“As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.”
Valerie Andrews, A Passion for this Earth
What is the Wild Passport?
The WILD Passport is a skill, knowledge and competency based outdoor learning curriculum and progression monitoring system. Providing a five year curriculum, the WILD Passport has 125 Learning Outcomes in woodcraft, shelter, fire, nature and rope skills. The objectives are then split over five separate competencies to take learners from the very foundations of woodland skills right through to an advanced level. The Individual Learner Passport allows your learners to track their progress through the five years of the WILD Passport programme, keeping an accurate record of their personal achievements.
Why choose the Wild Passport?
We all know the numerous benefits to children following an outdoor learning program in school but what makes the Wild Passport different? The first of its kind, the WILD Passport is designed to enable progress to be tracked over a prolonged period of time, providing data to evidence skills and knowledge acquisition. All learners gather a portfolio of their achievements in their physical passport, where they can also keep a record of all their amazing memories... now that's something they can be proud of!
How does Low Barns incorporate the Wild Passport?
When you choose to begin your Wild Passport journey, we will book you in for at least three visits between March and November. Before your first visit you will receive a Passport for each learner with all Learning Objectives to be covered over the full program. During your visits, our fully qualified and experienced outdoor leaders will guide the class through the program. The first year will start with the Beginner Level but, as our leaders are experienced teachers and outdoor learning practitioners, each learner will be supported and challenged throughout, no matter what the starting point!
A Sample Beginner Wild Passport Day
9.30-10.00am
Arrive at Low Barns
Discuss the objectives of the day
Share the house rules.
Settle in for the day and get ready to have an adventure!
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12.30-1.00
Time for some lunch!
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10.00-12.00
Outcome: To build a mini shelter
Objectives:
1. Understand the key principles of shelter building
2. Know why shelters are important for living things.
2. Discuss the properties of materials around them and how they would be useful in shelter building.
3. Demonstrate understanding by building a mini shelter and explaining their decisions.
1.00-2.00
Outcome: To build a fire to toast a marshmallow
Objectives:
1. Identify the difference between living and dead trees and plants.
2. Demonstrate correct fire circle etiquette.
3. Produce sparks with a fire steel
4. Safely cook items on a stick over a fire.
5. Understand the need to fully extinguish a fire.
12.00-12.30
Reflection time on the morning activity and time to fill in the Passport pages.
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2.00-2.30
Reflection time on the afternoon activities and complete the day's passport pages before returning to school.
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