Leaders of Learning at Hoy Outdoor Centre

Over three days of 8th, 9th and 10th of October junior pupils from all of Orkney’s secondary schools attended a SoA leadership course led by 4 senior pupils from Kirkwall Grammar School and Stromness Academy.

Half the group of 27 pupils undertook an outdoor leadership challenges set up by Richard Croft and his outdoor education team, while the other half worked on a range of leadership activities with the senior pupils supported by Scott Goddard from Live-n-Learn.

Pupils at Work:

Seniors at Work:

The next stage in this programme is to take it out to all six secondary schools and work with the pupils from these schools who attended the Hoy event, in order to cascade the leadership skills to all secondary pupils in Orkney.

This will be a major step in the process of empowering our pupils to become more procative in taking the right decisions for themselves in terms of academic and vocational decisions they will have to make over the next fews years of their lives.

This development clearly ties in with the ambitions of  ‘A Curriculum for Excellence’ where the curriculum that is provided is now more focused upon catering for the wholisitic needs of our young people fo the 21st century.