Havant Academy Take Learning Outside

Students at Havant Academy have spent time learning beyond the classroom bycompleting lessons in outdoor learning. Our outdoor classroom sits amongst the trees in our school woodland area. Our students were tasked with designing the outdoor classroom and we brought those designs to life. With our students' help, the outdoor classroom looks amazing.

 

Within our outdoor learning lessons, every student in the school completes the John Muir award where they learn different outdoor skills and complete 4 challenges: Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share these experiences with others.

 

Towards the end of the year, students were taking part in shelter building, knots,

tools and fire lighting. In addition, all of our year 7 students took part in a national

litter pick.

 

We work closely with Staunton Country Park and use all their facilities to we run a forest school club and an animal care course.

 

With the forest school club, students get to explore a larger forest area with wildlife such as foxes and deer. Within the club we have lots of fun playing games, roasting marshmallows and look after our wellbeing with nature.

 

With the animal care course, a group of students complete this at Staunton Country Farm weekly. To further enhance this experience for these students, we havebrought some pets into the school. We have guinea pigs, stick insects and a giant snail named Brian.

 

We finished our year by making pizza over the open fire and not only were they delicious but they were great fun to make!

 

Some students who will be in Year 7 in September, will be joining us in completing some woodland craft during our summer school and we can't wait to see them!