Education & Exploration
Konnekt Outdoors
Outdoor learning introduces young people to an active and healthy lifestyle, whilst encouraging them to explore their natural environment.
Konnekt Outdoors is ideal place for young people to learn new skills and make new friends in a safe outdoor learning environment.
Explore, Learn, and Grow with Konnekt Outdoors
By introducing young people to an active and healthy lifestyle, we encourage them to explore their potential, learn new skills, and make lifelong friends in a safe and supportive environment.
Whether through challenging outdoor adventures or creative educational activities, we aim to nurture confidence and resilience in every participant.
Our programme is included within weekly youth clubs and in the school holiday programmes, outdoor adventures like Archery, Indoor Rock Climbing, Map reading and Hiking, Camp Craft and Survival days, Mountain Biking, Coastal exploring and fossil hunting.
We provide a wide range of Team-building days ensuring a well-rounded memorable learning experience for all.
We also provide bespoke overnight camping and residential experiences built to meet the needs of your group over 1 to 5 nights.
What can we offer?
At Konnekt Outdoors we provide a safe place to explore and learn outdoors through structured programmes and one off activities.
We cater for all children from all types of provision and we can provide sessions suitable for all abilities including experiential learning, enrichment, alternative education, behaviour and reward and other programmes designed with you for neurodiverse and SEND students.
The activities can be for fun with free play elements or with curriculum links and themes schools are working on each term.
We also provide our own in house award called the Roots Award for 7-16yrs which can help structure outdoor learning and bring a sense of achievement upon completion of a Bronze Silver or Gold award, these can also be used as a pre- DofE programme.
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What is the Roots Award?
The Roots Award is an outdoor learning programme developed to provide young people with a strong foundation so they can maximise their abilities, knowledge, resilience, social skills, confidence, self-esteem, and reach their full potential.
Each award programme can be delivered over 12 two hour sessions by our highly experience instructors in your school’s outdoor space, at our Outdoor Learning and Activity Centre or can even incorporate outings into the local countryside.
The award can be tailored to meet your school needs which could include school grounds, Learner needs (SEN), or the timetable. This programme will support the young people’s mental well-being, resilience and will build skills that they can utilise in other educational settings.
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What is the Roots Award?
Each award offers 12 different headed sessions from First Aid to Bushcraft designed to build and use key skills that will progress throughout the 3 awards.
Week 1 Teamwork
Week 2 Navigation
Week 3 Fire Lighting
Week 4 First Aid
Week 5 Bushcraft
Week 6 Outdoor Wellbeing
Week 7 School Action Project
Week 8 Local History
Week 9 Healthy Living
Week 10 Conservation
Week 11 Eco Project
Week 12 Award Celebration
The elements and activities in the programme are interchangeable to help meet yours and the young peoples needs and the workbooks can be alerted to match your requirements. The workbooks can be electronic or hard copies for each student and certificate is provided at the end.
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Why the Roots Award?
Students involved in an outdoor learning project for 2 hours per week over 12 weeks gained an average increase of 6 months for Mental Arithmetic and 2 months for General Maths. They also showed a 20% increase in their attitudes to learning, while the control group decreased by 3% over the same period.
“The difference this work has had is astonishing. Right now Kidz Konnekt are working with our Year 6 children to make sure they are ready for Secondary School, giving them the confidence and skills. It involves a lot of outdoors skills where they get a direct sense of achievement. A key benefit for the pupils has been working with the team from Kidz Konnekt, a local charity.
The school has funding from Sport England to work with the charity to help the children build confidence and key life skills.
“The staff are so good with the children”, says Miss Cooper. ”They come in every day for half a day. We are building an ‘outdoor classroom’ and the children have planted a wooded area and are creating a sensory pathway which is wonderful for all our children but especially those with additional needs”.
- Tammy Cooper, Head Teacher
Skills you will learn
Shelter Building
Fire by Friction
Campfire Cooking
Tree & Plant Identification
Ancestral Skills
Orienteering Skills
All activities are based within the local area within short traveling distanced. Young people will have the opportunity to make new friends and learn new skills whilst enjoying a fantastic day out in nature.
Empowering Young People through Outdoor Learning
Konnekt Outdoors offers a wide range of activities designed to enrich the lives of young people aged 6 to 24.
From outdoor expeditions and sports to arts and performance, we provide positive, life-enhancing experiences that allow youth to engage in hands-on learning and leadership opportunities.
Our skilled staff, with qualifications in Outdoor Expedition Leadership, Mountain Leader, Lowland Leadership, Indoor Rock Climbing, Archery, Mountain Biking, Sport Coaching, and Youth Work, are dedicated to guiding young people as they discover their strengths and passions.
At Konnekt Outdoors we can provide a range of one day activities and pre-designed course such as our Roots Award, more formally we are a registered DofE centre (see DofE page) and we can build bespoke programmes to meet the needs of all schools and we regularly working with children and young people with EHCP and SEND.
Top 10 outcomes from involvement in high quality outdoor learning:
1. Increased Motivation and Appetite for Learning
2. Physical Health and Emotional Well-being
3. Teamwork skills
4. Environmental Awareness
5. Activity Skills
6. Personal Qualities
7. Skills for Life
8. Confidence and Character
9. Enjoyment and Enrichment
10. Broadened Horizons
FAQs
Q. How can young people get involved with Kidz Konnekt?
Young people can get involved by joining our youth clubs, participating in activities, volunteering, or taking part in our youth leadership program. You can also book your child in over school holiday's if you require child care type activity days please see events page and booking site.
Q. What is Kidz Konnekt?
Kidz Konnekt is a Children and Young People’s Charity based in Redcar and Cleveland, operating across the North East of England. We provide a range of youth services for young people aged 8-24.
Q. What is the mission of Kidz Konnekt?
Our mission is to offer open-door access youth services, providing positive and life-enhancing experiences to young people.
Q. What kind of activities does Kidz Konnekt offer?
We offer weekly youth clubs, sports, outdoor adventures, arts and crafts, music and performance sessions, family activities, and a youth leadership program. Activities are tailored to the needs and aspirations of young people.
Q. Where are Kidz Konnekt's services offered?
We are based at Kidz Konnekt, Eston Leisure Centre, Noramnby Road, Middlesbrough, TS6 9AE. We have a dedicated youth centre and outdoor multi activities area, with café, arts and crafts area, gaming area and main activity suite.
Q. Who can participate in Kidz Konnekt's programs?
Young people aged 6-24 living in the North East of England can participate in our programs. Specific activities and projects have different age requirements, please check activity page or contact us.
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