Level 3 Outdoor Education

In this course, students get the opportunity to apply classroom-based learning to an outdoor environment. There are a number of trips and camps that are part of the course. Topics covered will be risk management with a focus of river safety, leadership in the outdoors, lifelong wellbeing and a research assignment. One contexts that we will be using to learn about these topics will be a leadership camp where the students will be leading outdoor activities. There will also be another trip or camp to put in to practice risk management strategies and river safety.

This course can lead on to certificates, diplomas and degrees in sport, recreation, physical education, outdoor education and sustainability. The purpose and design of this course is to give students an opportunity to learn in, through and about a variety of outdoor activities. Some potential career pathways could be in adventure tourism, secondary and tertiary teaching, outdoor education centres, working as a fitness instructor or as a personal trainer in centres or for corporate groups, environmental and conservation groups (including Department of Conservation and others).