Outdoor Education

Through our school’s bespoke curriculum and our Outdoor Education Centre of Excellence, we are doing exciting things in the outdoor learning sector.

Our data research projects and specialised programmes are changing the landscape of education through outdoor learning that privileges managed risk and shows children and young people they can achieve beyond the narrow scope of the traditional classroom.

Free to access resources from Releasing Potential Institute:

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OUTDOOR EDUCATION ROADMAP

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SAMPLE COVID-19 RISK ASSESSMENTS

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OFSTED OUTDOOR EDUCATION REPORT (2004)

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Recent Outdoor Education blog posts from Releasing Potential:

Let Nature Be Your Teacher: Mindfulness and the Great Outdoors

by Imogen Robins | Apr 28, 2020 | News, OutdoorEd, Uncategorised

It has been a difficult few weeks in education – for leaders who find themselves balancing the needs of children and the welfare of staff, and for staff managing anxiety levels around all sorts of new issues that have emerged as we face this strange new reality. I...

Outside the National Curriculum – our school journey via the outdoor classroom

by alexgray | Oct 31, 2018 | AlternativeEd, News, OutdoorEd

Founded in 2001, Releasing Potential began as a free-wheeling Outdoor Education outreach service designed to engage children who had been excluded from mainstream education. With humble beginnings in a spare room belonging to our founder and CEO, Mike King, the...

European Outdoor Education (EOE) Conference 2018

by alexgray | Sep 25, 2018 | AlternativeEd, News, OutdoorEd

RP Founder Mike King, was delighted to be invited to attend and deliver a workshop at the European Outdoor Education (EOE) Conference 2018 which was hosted in Bohinj, Slovenia. Mike logged his thoughts about the 3 day event to give us all an insight into what the EOE...

Managing Challenging Behaviour at the University of Derby 01/11/17

by alexgray | Dec 6, 2017 | AlternativeEd, BehaviourManagement, News, OutdoorEd

On Friday 1st November 2017, the Releasing Potential Institute team journeyed to the Peak District, to deliver to undergraduate students at the University of Derby's Buxton Campus. The second-year students were registered on the BA (Hons) Outdoor Leadership and...