Children need to learn risk - chuck them on a mountain!

Children need to learn risk - chuck them on a mountain!

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crofty1984

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15,830 posts

203 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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. frown

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.

MacW

1,349 posts

175 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Why do the two girls appear to be brandishing sex toys?



10 out of 10 to the headmaster though.

killingjoker

950 posts

192 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Good on him. We need more of this.

mcbook

1,384 posts

174 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

Snozzwangler

12,230 posts

193 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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So much win!


'...flying them there in a World War II submarine-hunting seaplane.'

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

194 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

s2kjock

1,677 posts

146 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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My (independent) school did not dissimilar activities 25 odd years ago - they have of course recently decided to stop playing rugby due to the risk of injury banghead

FredClogs

14,041 posts

160 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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!

Snozzwangler

12,230 posts

193 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

hehe

carinaman

21,224 posts

171 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

BuzzBravado

2,944 posts

170 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

Digga

40,207 posts

282 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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.

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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FredClogs said:
Toffs, doing silly things to feel alive since 1945, because they can.
This is what you have to do if you don't know where to buy heroin or how to burgle a house.

Nick Grant

5,409 posts

234 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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 smile 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.

Cotty

39,390 posts

283 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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MacW said:
Why do the two girls appear to be brandishing sex toys?
Ill take a wild stab at them being sporks.


Snozzwangler

12,230 posts

193 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Ouch! That'd be painful!

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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Cotty said:
Ill take a wild stab at them being sporks.
They look like a right bunch of sporks.

NEEP

1,795 posts

197 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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"The ten teenagers are also travelling with a doctor who has received training in case one of them breaks a bone."
Ahh, that will be a Medical Dr, Not Jeremy Clarkson then.

PugwasHDJ80

7,522 posts

220 months

Thursday 30th July 2015
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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 smile 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!