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Residential outdoor education can benefit children during their transition from primary to secondary school. From many years of experience and feedback from our visitors, FSC knows that residential outdoor experiences can build children’s confidence, increase self esteem, develop team building skills, help new groups to bond, build trust and understanding. FSC wishes to encourage children to take part in such activities and will work with feeder primary schools and their secondary schools, though a programme of outreach visits and a residential course focussed around science in the natural world.

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Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)

    Situation

    As a charity and not-for-profit organisation, the FSC is the UK’s leading provider of education ‘in, about and for the environment’. The FSC works directly with 80,000 people each year, the majority of whom are young people. Its wide-ranging brief is to share knowledge, understanding and skills right across the spectrum of arts, humanities and sciences. FSC owns and manages 17 Centres across the UK providing day or residential environmental education activities. FSC has increasing experience of working with schools in their own settings both before and after a residential experience. FSC wishes to expand its outreach work which currently is being successfully trialed in 22 of the lowest performing local education authorities. FSC would like to develop a similar outreach programme in the local authorities in which its 14 residential Centres are based (Cumbria, Lancashire, Suffolk, Surrey, North and West Yorkshire, Somerset, Shropshire, Devon, North Wales, South and West Wales and Western Northern Ireland and Perthshire). Amount £582,400 £11 schools in a cluster, 1 sec, 10 primary 4 visits each = 44 x £150 per visit = £6600. 1 residential in Yr 7 = 200 x £175 = £35000 Total £6600 + £35000 = £41600 x 14 geog regions where FSC has centres = £582,400 for 1 year

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Environment/Conservation Environment/​Conservation
  • Beneficiaries

    • Children (3-18) Children (3-18)
    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)