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i-Challenge

Welcome to i-Challenge

Through the ‘i-challenge’ curriculum, we provide access to a wide range of opportunities that promote pupils’ emotional, physical, and intellectual development. Activities provide pupils with opportunities to develop the ‘building blocks’ of successful life skills, such as teamwork, resilience, responsibility, and friendship. Through ‘i-challenge’, we focus on how children learn, underpinned by building relationships, teamwork, and confidence-building.

The adventure begins here…

The benefit of working creatively, participating in sport, and building a strong community and citizenship not only develops an individual’s character and resilience but also lays the foundations for positive self-esteem and confidence in the future.

i-Challenge Early Years Book

i-Challenge Key Stage 2 Book

Overall Key Elements

  • Geography – Map and Fieldwork, Compare and contrast, vocabulary
  • Science – Observe and record
  • Literacy – Speak and listen
  • Art – Engage and develop
  • D/T – Design and make
  • History – Sources of evidence, storytelling and archaeology
  • P.E – Health and fitness
  • P.H.S.C.E – Social, safety, personal development and cultural
  • Numeracy – Problem-solving and measurement

Physical Development

As the outdoor classroom is typically larger than many indoor classrooms, it offers increased opportunities for physical development. Numerous activities incorporate movement elements, requiring participants to make full use of the available space. Specific activities like exploring, tree climbing, constructing dens from natural materials, and collecting items demand significantly more physical exertion compared to indoor activities.

Emotional Development

The outdoor environment enables everyone to take an actual and metaphorical deep breath, allows for the release of tension, freedom of work and discussions on far-ranging topics, school-related or not.

Social Development

Working together in small and larger groups, often in unfamiliar environments, requires participants to interact in many different ways than in the indoor classroom. Individuals have space to form new and different friendships. Working with often-small groups, allows for deeper and less formal discussions to take place.
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