The EVC Magazine Spring 2025 - Flipbook - Page 13
Outdoor learning guidance
WHAT DOES HIGH-QUALITY
OUTDOOR LEARNING LOOK LIKE?
A newly revised guide f rom the Institute for Outdoor Learning can help you to plan
and deliver the best possible outdoor learning experience
New for 2025, High-Quality Outdoor Learning 2025 – A Guide for All will steer
you through the planning process, helping with such things as choosing the
most appropriate activity and setting for your students, anticipating and solving
problems, managing diverse needs and abilities and assessing the results.
This issue of The EVC
Magazine includes
a free poster with
the 10 outcomes of
high-quality outdoor
learning. Put it
on your wall
and use it to
plan your next
adventure!
This guide focuses on what high-quality outdoor learning
looks like and how you can achieve it
It sets a benchmark for good practice and will help you to plan and deliver
the best possible outdoor session or residential visit for your students.
Download your copy today!
How to use High-Quality
Outdoor Learning 2025
* Use Part 1 to help you explain
the benefits of educational visits
and outdoor learning to senior
leaders, governors, parents,
school staff and your students.
* Use Part 2.1 to understand the
responsibilities of providers and
practitioners and how this is
assessed.
WE DELIVER
High-Quality Ou
tdoor Learning!
When we provid
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intended outcom
door learning we
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are clear about
our
vision for outdoo
delivering high-q
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rning when childre rning. We know we’re
n and young peo
ple are:
The below outcom
es should be
read in conjun
ction with their
indicators in the
HQOL Booklet.
* In Part 2.2, you will find questions
and reflection points that will
help to inform your planning. Use
them as the basis for observations
and to spot which areas need
improvement.
* Part 2.3 shows the 10 HQOL
outcomes, which are great for
planning and evaluations. How
could you use them when you
are looking for feedback from
participants?
Learn more and download HQOL
at →www.evolveadvice.co.uk/hqol
1. Health & well-b
2. Social &
emotional aware
eing
Learning to appr
eciate the benefits
of physical fitne
ss and the lifelo
ng value
of participation
in healthy active
leisure activities.
ness
3. Environmenta
Developing their
self-awareness
and
social skills, and
their appreciation
of
the contributions
and achievements
of themselves and
of others.
l awareness
Becoming receptive
to the natural envi
ronment and
understand the
importance of cons
ervation and
pro-environmenta
l behaviour.
5. Confidence &
4. Positive learni
ng
experiences
Developing a posi
tive attitude to
challenge, learn
ing and adventur
e.
character
Developing pers
onal confidence
and
character through
taking on challenge
s
and achieving succ
ess.
7. Personal qualit
ies
6. Skills & know
ledge
Demonstrating
increased initiative,
self-reliance, resp
onsibility, persever
ance,
tenacity and com
mitment.
Acquiring and deve
loping a range of
skills
and knowledge
as a result of, and
in
support of, their
participation in
outdoor
activities, recreation
and exploration.
8. Skills for life
9. Increased mo
tivation
& appetite for lea
rning
Developing and
extending their
key skills of com
munication,
problem-solving,
leadership
and teamwork.
Displaying an incre
ased motivation
and appetite for
that is contribut
learning
ing to raised level
s of achievement
progress in othe
and
r aspects of their
development.
10. Broadened ho
rizons
Broadening their
horizons and beco
ming aware
of a wider range
of recreation and
employment
opportunities and
life chances, life
choices
and lifestyles.
Download a copy
of this poster he
re: Scan me
www.evolveadv
ice.co.uk/hqol
kind permission
of IOL, from High
Reproduced with
Quality Outdoor
Learning 2025
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