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Now to Andalucia
Gold Residential complete and Gold expeditions successfully completed by all in GLORIOUS weather.
Now to Andalucia to run Reflective Leader courses at La Jarilla. Looking forward to place and people….
D of E Gold Residential/Open Gold Expeditions
Planning and preparation underway for both of above, ready to kick off on August 23rd with young people from all over UK and one from Dubai!
Immediately following this is EU inservice teacher CPD course ‘ The Reflective Leader’ in Andalucia.
So diverse groups and activities…but all good!
July – time out
July is time for us to ‘regroup’ and get ready for a hectic Aug -Nov, though we do have Open Golds/Gold Residentials to run/plan amongst this!
From mid Aug though its FULL ON with Gold Residential, Open Gold, inservice course for educators in Spain on ‘reflective leadership’ , then work for Tallinn Uni, Rakvere teacher training – Estonia on ‘outdoor learning’, inservice course in Italy (outdoor learning) and presenting at a conference on ‘good practice by course providers for courses in EU’ in Turkey straight after. SO enjoying what/if/any free time we have!
Good summer everyone reading this!
Last expeditions of the season!
This weekend sees the last Bronze groups go out from Dornoch Academy. Its been a great expedition season, with many talented, competent young people. Hope to see many tackle Gold in the future!
Thanks from Ally and I for all the hard work and FUN you’ve put into the training, practices and qualifiers.
Some pictures from Gold expedition
P7 Invergordon
Fantastic week with P7’s. They all had a great week and rose to all the challenges presented, from being away from home for first time for many to all activities. WELL DONE!
Now more Bronze expeditions in the hills. Last ones of this term next week.
Golds complete….
Yesterday saw finish of Gold practice expeds. Well done to all on completing Ardgay to Ullapool and the two girls who joined us to finish their ENTIRE Gold Award!!
Now some Bronze assessing before Curriculum for Excellence outdoor residential experience week in the Cairngorms with Primary 7’s.
Finally more Bronze assessed expeds before end of June and time to relax for a bit!
Italian sights
Back from Italy
Just back from Italy. Courses went well though we did have to get there by train due to volcano!
Now begins 19 days of expeditions and residential experience for primary group!
Italian photos will be uploaded soon!