Education outside the classroom

EOTC activities support and enhance the New Zealand Curriculum

Students learn through experiences appropriate to their needs and environment. Students need a variety of experiences for maximum development, and should be given opportunities to explore and learn from the world outside the classroom.

EOTC programmes, events, activities, and experiences:

• enhance learning, through a variety of well-designed, first-hand experiences

• provide experiences for students that encourage awareness of the values and philosophies of the tangata whenua, and with other cultures within the school community

• increase students' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the school area, local district, and other familiar and unfamiliar places

• promote ecological awareness and personal responsibility towards the environment

• develop students' skills in observation, recording, and organisation

• help students develop self-confidence and a sense of adventure

• assist students in their social development by placing them with others in unfamiliar situations

• help students develop an attitude of responsibility, particularly towards their own safety and that of others

• provide students with opportunities to work together in a group.

• follow Ministry of Education regulations and guidelines on safety and supervision, risk management, leadership, and legal requirements

• ensure adequate ongoing training for all staff involved in EOTC, including support staff attending approved workshops, seminars, courses and training, and assessment schemes.