10 Reasons to Choose Outdoor School Trips Over Traditional School Trips

Outdoor school trips offer a fantastically unique learning experience compared to traditional school trips. Children love the outdoors, so what can be better than taking the classroom there?

Here are 10 reasons to choose outdoor school trips over traditional school trips.

1. An outdoor setting

As we said before, children love being in the great outdoors. So allowing them to learn in an outdoor setting provides a new and exciting learning experience! With this new setting, you could see more engaged pupils, and that brings us nicely onto reason two.

2. More engaging activities

Outdoor educational trips usually offer extremely engaging activities and games which promote teamwork and a variety of other key skills. At PGL we offer exciting adventurous activities such as raft building, high ropes, canoeing, and much more!

3. Enhanced learning experience

Students will get an enhanced learning experience which can’t be replicated in the classroom. Outdoor school trips allow students to get hands-on with activities, explore the outdoors, and learn through practical application.

4. Gives students more freedom

When outdoors, students have a greater sense of freedom, being able to explore, team-up with friends and peers in challenges and develop independence. Students are given more responsibility, a greater freedom of choice and more opportunities to get stuck in.

5. Students are more active

Outdoor school trips involve students being more active and taking part in some form of physical activity. That could be walking on a field trip, playing sports, or taking on new challenges and activities.

At PGL, student health and wellbeing is at the forefront of everything we do, and we know the importance of keeping young people active, which is why we incorporate this into all of our extremely fun activities.

6. Appreciation for nature

Taking your students on outdoor school trips can help them to appreciate and respect nature. It can also help them realise the importance of being environmentally responsible so they know what they can do to help keep the planet clean.

7. Reduce stress

Academic life can be stressful for all ages, so bringing them on outdoor school trips can give them a break from academic life, so they can completely switch off, relax, and recharge. When children need a change from traditional classroom learning, sometimes something like a museum can be a bit of an information overload. Outdoor school trips allow students to focus their mind on something other than reading and writing.

8. Improved social skills

Outdoor school trips provide far more opportunity for teambuilding and collaboration, especially with PGL. A lot of our activities involve some kind of focus on teamwork or communication, whether that’s supporting each other in solo tasks, or collaborating in group challenges.

9. Personal development

Personal development can come in all sorts of ways, from developed confidence, improved leadership skills and more. These kinds of trips help students thrive in these areas because of the greater independence needed as well as unlocking those hidden talents.

10. Cultural awareness

Wherever your outdoor school trip is, it can help students learn about different cultures and ways of life. This has many benefits such as broadening their perspective on the world and developing their understanding of other people, countries and cultures.

Choose outdoor school trips today!

Our residential school trips offer pupils a fun-filled adventure with fantastic group activities and constant entertainment. And they are perfect for developing teamwork skills and building new friendships while having an amazing time! All of our challenges encourage communication and collaboration, so you know your class relationships will just get stronger and stronger!

If you’re unsure about what or where you want to book and are looking for some outdoor trip ideas, then contact us to see if our centres offer what you need!

At PGL, we have an expansive range of school trips and outdoor learning activities to enjoy, so get in touch today to discuss your next school trip.