BENEFITS OF OUTDOOR EDUCATION

Learning Away has shown that a residential learning experience provides
opportunities, benefits and impacts that cannot be achieved in any other educational
context or setting. Throughout the evaluation process, impacts on relationships (both
student-student and staff-student) and on students’ confidence were strongly and
consistently demonstrated. The strength of relationships developed was significant and
often unexpected. There was also strong evidence that impacts in these areas led to
positive outcomes in terms of students’ engagement with, and progress in, their
learning, as well as their self-belief and expectation that they would make progress
and succeed.