from aberdovey to everest - lotc
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From Aberdovey to EverestThe Walsall Academy story
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Our vision
“If they summit the mountain, it’s only part of the story. They’ve built skills, fundraising, resilience, persistence. Learning outside the classroom is not a bolt-on. It is an intrinsic part of a young person’s development.”J Clarke WCMT
The Guardian July 2019
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About us• The predecessor school
named in 2001 as one of the 5 worst in the country
• First Cohort of Academies
• 2 hour 40 minute lessons
• Vertical tutor groups• Pioneer in the use of
outdoor learning
• Serves a zone of mass derivation highest 5% nationally predominately white, very little industry. 50% PP.
• The Black Country a forgotten land
• In 2018-19, 500 students undertook residential courses, there were over 200 day visits.
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Core projects that embed learning
Green Pioneers course with Mid Counties Cooperative
Year 7 Outward Bound Course and induction
Boys intervention project
Sixth Form visit to Cern, Auschwitz & Lake District
EDS courses in Yrs 8 & 9
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Day visits and their place within the curriculum
• Health and Social care: disability living centre
• Technology: Morgan Motors• Travel & Tourism: West Midlands
Safari Park• Computing: the National Gaming
Centre• History: Wroxeter Roman City as
Time Team Investigation• Geography Field Trip
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Funding
•How do they afford it?
•PP funding for some
•Parental contribution
•Coporate sponsorship
•CSR schemes £65,000 From Hadley Group
• Some really hard product placement
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Everest and all that since 2014
• 2 expeditions to the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia
• First state school expedition to Everest Base Camp
• Expedition 2019 to Himalayas to climb Stock Kangri at 6,134m
• 5 ski trips and MFL trips• Research into raising White Working
Class boys’ attainment through learning outside the classroom and expeditionary learning
• Green Pioneers course with Mid Counties Cooperative