FAQs – Outdoor Learning Challenge Award

 

Who is this award for?

Teachers, parents, outdoor leaders, or anyone who helps children of all ages and locations! Basically anyone who would like their children/ pupils to develop outdoor skills and knowledge of the environment. All challenges have different levels within them to suit all ages and abilities and locations of learners. They are suitable to be used in schools, nurseries, outdoor areas or back gardens.

What are the resources for this online course?

This scheme is a fun way to work towards Outdoor Learning Made Easy’s 5 Core Values (listed below), through 20 fun and practical outdoor challenges. Each of our 5 Core Values has a fun wildlife character assigned to it. This character will help to inspire children to achieve their outdoor challenges. Each Core Value has 4 different challenges, therefore there are a total of 20 outdoor challenges to complete.

The resources for this online scheme are as follows:

• Introductory Information and Progress Tracker
• Spike’s Wellbeing & Emotional Intelligence Challenges (4)
• Amber’s Self-Management of Risk Challenges (4)
• Francois’ Environmentally Friendly Challenges (4)
• Betty’s Creative Challenges (4)
• Swoop’s Resilience Challenges (4)
• Certificates (3 levels)

What are Outdoor Learning Made Easy’s Core Values?

Outdoor Learning Made Easy has 5 Core Values which are at the heart of everything we do and all of our resources. These Core Values, and their corresponding animal mascots, are as follows: We, and our 1st Mascot Spike the Hedgehog, strive to help improve both emotional intelligence and wellbeing; Our 2nd mascot, Amber the Fox helps to grow your children’s confidence to take and manage risks; Our aim, along with our 3rd mascot Francois the Frog, is to connect more children and adults to their local environment in ways that can be maintained with minimal long-term environmental impacts; Our 4th mascot, Betty the Butterfly, helps to facilitate individuality and originality and enable children to develop innovative skills; Our 5th mascot, Swoop the Owl, will help to gently build their confidence to enable them to develop a positive growth mindset.

More information about our Core Values can be found here.

How long will these challenges take to complete and how long can I access the challenge award scheme?

Each session is quite open in that it could take as quick or long as necessary. A good guide is about half an hour to an hour per session. It is up to you how quickly you work through the challenges. If you do one challenge a day (Monday to Friday), it would take you 4 weeks; If you do one challenge a week it would take you 20 weeks to complete. You can work in any order and as fast or slow as you like as there is no time limit.

Do I have to do the challenges in a set order?

No, you can choose to do them in any order that suits you.

What happens when my child/ students finish all of the challenges?

There are 3 levels. Bronze = 10 challenges complete; silver = 15 challenges complete; gold = all 20 challenges complete. Therefore your child/ students have targets to work to all the way through the scheme. You can download the challenge tracker and keep a check of challenges completed. When your child/ students have completed a level, you can download and print the relevant certificates.

What if my child/ students don’t finish the course within a year?

No problem, they have as long as they need 🙂

Can I share the resources with my friends & colleagues?

If you purchase the workshop as an organisation or family member, you may share the resources with your colleagues in your immediate establishment or with people in your immediate family household. You are not permitted to download and share (or duplicate) our resources with friends, family or colleagues who are not in your immediate organisation or household.