Children need to learn risk - chuck them on a mountain!
Discussion
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews...
A well-organised and prepared for trip, but genuinely risky.
It's almost worth having children to be able to send them to that school. Well done that headteacher!
But then I'd have to live in Worksop.
Still, very brave of the head to do this in the current hysterical mumsnet climate and I bet those kids will remember it fondly for the rest of their lives.
A well-organised and prepared for trip, but genuinely risky.
It's almost worth having children to be able to send them to that school. Well done that headteacher!
But then I'd have to live in Worksop.
Still, very brave of the head to do this in the current hysterical mumsnet climate and I bet those kids will remember it fondly for the rest of their lives.
This is good stuff from the Head. I notice that it's an independent school - no way a comprehensive Head would have the balls to do this! Too much bureaucracy, too much to lose.
I agree with the general principle that kids need to get outside and experience real-life risk. Nieces and nephews of mine are wrapped in cotton-wool and wouldn't know what to do if their Nintendo DS ran out of batteries.
I agree with the general principle that kids need to get outside and experience real-life risk. Nieces and nephews of mine are wrapped in cotton-wool and wouldn't know what to do if their Nintendo DS ran out of batteries.
Our school was near Snowdonia and we did regular climbs. Once we did a climb only to be told at the top that the Royal Marine recruits we were supposed to meet up with had been told to stand down due to the ice and snow.
In the Cadets we also did a few weeks out on the Beacons while based at Sennybridge. At the same time there was a selection course going on and a couple of lads died due to the weather. It was happening back then too, 30 odd years ago.
In the Cadets we also did a few weeks out on the Beacons while based at Sennybridge. At the same time there was a selection course going on and a couple of lads died due to the weather. It was happening back then too, 30 odd years ago.
It's all fun and games until a polar bear eats a toff. Remember this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14415592
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14415592
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
From the age of about 12 I can remember groups of us being taken hiking, staying in YHAs accompanied by just a couple of intrepid teachers. Usual destination was the Lakes, but occasionally also Snowdonia.
Some of the best memories of my school days. I can remember being somewhere on the Old Man of Conniston in a white out, all of us kids in full waterproofs, body tobogganing and one lad (he always was accident prone) came perilously close to skidding off a drop. Fun and games. No idea how the teachers stayed calm!
Some of the best memories of my school days. I can remember being somewhere on the Old Man of Conniston in a white out, all of us kids in full waterproofs, body tobogganing and one lad (he always was accident prone) came perilously close to skidding off a drop. Fun and games. No idea how the teachers stayed calm!
FredClogs said:
It's all fun and games until a polar bear eats a toff. Remember this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14415592
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
Clogs, walking in circles due to the weight of the chip on his shoulder since 1948.http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14415592
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
There was much hand wringing from BRAKE! the other week about how casualities on the roads have gone up.
I suspect some of it may be down to kids not being allowed out to play and being so connected to electronic devices they don't develop life skills like how to avoid getting run over.
I suspect some of it may be down to kids not being allowed out to play and being so connected to electronic devices they don't develop life skills like how to avoid getting run over.
FredClogs said:
It's all fun and games until a polar bear eats a toff. Remember this?
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14415592
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
It pissed me off the bear was shot for it. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-14415592
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
carinaman said:
There was much hand wringing from BRAKE! the other week about how casualities on the roads have gone up.
I suspect some of it may be down to kids not being allowed out to play and being so connected to electronic devices they don't develop life skills like how to avoid getting run over.
That or fat MAMILs predenting they're in the TdF again.I suspect some of it may be down to kids not being allowed out to play and being so connected to electronic devices they don't develop life skills like how to avoid getting run over.
My son's nursery teaches kids risk. He's five now and knows how to use a knife to whittle, start fires, use a saw and all sorts of stuff They spend nearly all day outside in all weathers. Problem is he starts school this year and that will be a culture shock being sat in a classroom all day.
Nick Grant said:
My son's nursery teaches kids risk. He's five now and knows how to use a knife to whittle, start fires, use a saw and all sorts of stuff They spend nearly all day outside in all weathers. Problem is he starts school this year and that will be a culture shock being sat in a classroom all day.
That sounds great- where is that? I'd be well up for that. I had a gapyear at a fairly famous swiss school for rather well off children (mostly children of multi mutil millionaires and Billionaires).
Every weekend they used to give the kids tents and send them out across the country on the train completely unaccompanied to camp up a mountain. I never knew anything go wrong!
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