The Outdoor School

The Outdoor School Welcome to The Outdoor School, where nature’s awe-inspiring classrooms give learning a new meaning.

We believe that learning is about creating and engaging with experiences that are exciting, challenging, growth oriented and transformational. In an era when education is being constantly redefined, questioned, designed and interpreted, here is a paradigm that proposes impactful experiences and learning in an inspiring environment – the great outdoors. Outdoor Education has been a tool used worldwide to explore individual potential and move beyond perceived boundaries against the backdrop of the great outdoors. It actuates real life situations thereby necessitating real life responses from students – therefore putting the spotlight on them as individuals and their connect - to the self, team, community and environment. At The Outdoor School, we design, offer and lead experiential and educational courses. Our courses require rigorous engagement from students that enables them to develop their own lens to life and learning - while they become better aware of their physical and emotional responses to crisis and adversity. Courses use nature and community based elements such as water, rocks, trees, high ropes, orienteering, farming, community stories, fort explorations, oral history, development issues, socio-cultural anthropology, folklore and more to construct the learning environment. Besides the content focus, courses offer students a non-distracting setting i.e. the outdoors, which often perform like mirrors or labs wherein students can explore and develop qualities to cope with life itself, as they are forced to survive and wade through challenges. In short, The Outdoor School thrives on the ‘development by challenge’ metaphor. All courses strive to ensure that students leap out of their comfort zone. The medium of learning is often active, experiential, reflective and intense.

12/10/2012

Thank You: Vedant, Indiyana, A***n, Baani, Joshua, Vedansh, Anup, Devansh, Prerana, Joshua, Aahana, Ashton, Sohan, Yuthika, Akshat, Palash, Gouri, Kavyanjali, Jemima, Shashank, Sahisht, Laasya, Sneha, Rohit, Samay, Mallika, Sakeena, Pavithra, Shreya, Arman, Saloni, Nayan, Nikitha, Ahaan, Auon, Ethan, Bhamini, Preethan, Monika, Mansi and
Abhinav for giving us at The Outdoor School such a lovely learning experience. Wishing you guys all the success.

Teachers: Soundari, Anita, Khatija, Sinia, Leelavathi - thank you for your valuable support in making this course a huge success for the children and for us.

As your children head back home, this was their home away from home these past few days. Ask them for the details.Thank ...
11/10/2012

As your children head back home, this was their home away from home these past few days. Ask them for the details.
Thank You Neha, our lead instructor for sharing this picture.

11/10/2012

Last update from base camp, Nandigodu. Children, teachers and couple of our instructors have boarded the train back home to Bangalore. This has once again been an awe inspiring course for us. Parents, management and children of Chrysalis High we say a big Thank You.
Do share your child's experiences from the course with us. We would love to hear. And, yes most certainly we would be putting up pictures. Good night!

11/10/2012

Today's update. Children by now have a fair understanding on what sustainable living involves. After having spent the first half of the day, surveying the nearby hamlets around Nandigodu meeting local farmers to understand renewable and non-renewable sources of energy, they are now packing their bags. Badge ceremony will commence in a while.

And we are as always curious to know what the children and teachers of Chrysalis High have to share as feedback with us.
Stay tuned for another update parents, which will happen once the children board the train to Bangalore

10/10/2012

The best day on course has been today!
Good evening parents. Children experienced 'water' as a medium. Swam in the backwaters of the Sharavathy. Moved on to some Physics to learn 'friction' concept with the aid of high rope course. And did we mention, they made simple machines too, to best understand the concept! It was a day packed with hands-on, fun learning time.

09/10/2012

Good evening parents. Update you've been waiting for. After spending the morning hours doing land work with local farmers, children are now brimming with knowledge on the region's farming practices.
This was followed by a session with our Herpetologist and they got to experience couple of live cobras and green vine snakes. Fear not!! They were very excited to be around the creepy crawlies :)
Down-time right now. Followed by dinner. 'Twilight Delight' and lights off!

09/10/2012

Good morning Parents. Children have reached base camp after their night out. Gearing up for the day's activity - FARMING. What better real and absolutely practical way to learn about our country's most common occupation: Agriculture.
We'll be working together to understand the history of farming in the Ghats, its various patterns, crops, get an indepth knowledge on weather, climate influences, rainfall connect with the guidance of local farmers and finally prepare an agri map of the area. All this on a typical day in the ghats. Its cloudy and simply beautiful.
Come back in the evening to know more on how the day was.

08/10/2012

Day one...of distance and direction successful. After navigating through ways unknown..the children reached their destinations. After a shirt rest, got into doing camp cooking to feed themselves for the night. Peaceful rest after a long tiring and eventful day.

08/10/2012

Good morning parents. Update from base camp at Nandigodu. Children and teachers preparing for the day-long activity.
Today's highlight: Direction and Distance through the learning aid of map and compass navigation.
As they have a hearty breakfast, eagerness to start and head for the night out is on an all time high.

07/10/2012

As we begin our second course with 5, 6 and 7th Graders of Chrysalis High, we are toying with one question. Who is more excited, eager and enthusiastic? The children? Or us? Parents, children are all safe and have boarded the train to Sagar. Their energy is infectious..and we're all geared for the course.
We'll keep you all posted. Come back to know more...

05/10/2012

Thank you Gauri Shankar, Akarsh, Sai Sree, Anusha, Riddhika, Sparsh, Kuvhal, Diksh*tha, Yuvan, Saikiran, Ahaan, Shrey, Anna, Riona, Ananya, Subasree, Milan, Shashwati, Vikhyat, Rohit, Chirag, Ethan, Samanth, Pranav, Bodhana, Sanjana, Khushi for giving us at The Outdoor School an opportunity to be a part of your learning.
Parents, we're completely humbled by your words of appreciation. Thank you.
A special thank you to the management of Chrysalis High for believing in us to partner in their pursuit of making learning more interesting and make a difference by channelizing children’s energy in the right direction.

04/10/2012

Hello parents..after a very emotional badge ceremony...the children, teachers of Chrysalis High have left Nandigodu. Boarded the train back to Bangalore.

Your children have taken precious memories along...and we have with us extremely fond experiences which will take us a long way! Your children have been truly beautiful!

As they said...'country roads take me home...' We say 'Thank You!'

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#38, RV Mansion, Susheela Road, Mavalli, Bangalore And #110, B 1, Mahatta Towers, Community Center, Janakpuri
New Delhi
560004

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+919342545554

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