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Scouting movement founded by Robert Powell
Being part of the Scouting process is important to a childs upbringing. Once they join the Scouts they are taught leadership skills, adult skills, responsibility and also about growing up. -
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ROSPA Established, inform much of school risk procedures
ROSPA was established to create law and rules for schools to abide by when they attend school trips taking children from different ages on them. -
Countryside Code published for the first time
The Countryside Code is vital for walkers and outdoor goers who enjoy walking or outdoor activities in open areas, but must abide by these laws to respect to facility and the animal habitats. -
The Kinder Trespass
The Kinder Trespass was an act created by hundreds of walkers walked for miles protesting against polictical rights. The trespass itslef led to the "Right to Roam" act. -
John Dewey pioneered the importance of experiemntal education.
John Dewey was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. -
First UK Outward Bound Centre, Wales
Outward Bound (OB) is an international, non-profit, independent, outdoor education organization with approximately 40 schools around the world and 200,000 participants per year. Outward Bound programs aim to foster the personal growth and social skills of participants by using challenging expeditions in the outdoors. -
National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act
These acts covered the national parks to make people abide by the laws to keep the countryside safe and in a suitable condition which shows of the national beauty of the land and for people not to vandalise this. -
Countryside Commission established
The Countryside Commission was a statutory body in England and Wales, which changed to just England later. Its pioneer, the National Parks Commission, was established in 1949 by the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 to co-ordinate government activity in relation to National Parks. -
Second UK outward Bound Centre, Eskdale
This Outward Bound opened a second centre in Eskdale within a short period of time from the original opening of the centre in Wales. This proves that this is a successful organisation as they are growing rapidly. -
Peak District becomes the first National Park
First national park. Organisations and the Government got together and created the Peak District by giving it a status and not allowing any building plans and letting the natural habitat grow and form the way it should. -
Kurt Hahn founded the DofE
The Duke of Edinburgh Award wants to promote outdoor activity to children from as young as 14. This led to colleges hosting Duke of Edinburgh courses to allow students to experience outdoor activities to a high level of enjoyment. -
To 1983 Kenneth Oldham conducted outdoor education for children & wrote the first guide to the Pennine Way
Conducted hiking, climbing, and outdoor education activities for children. First head of Whitehough Camp school, Lancashire, 1956-1983. -
Outward Bound goes to the USA
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MLTB founded
Mountain Training is a number of related organisations which share a common purpose: the provision of education and training in the leadership, instruction and coaching of climbing, walking and mountaineering activities in the UK. -
Pennie Way completed
Stephenson proposed the concept in an article for the Daily Herald in 1935, and later lobbied Parliament for the creation of an official trail. The walk was originally planned to end at Wooler but eventually it was decided that Kirk Yetholm would be the finishing point. The final section of the path was declared open in a ceremony held on Malham Moor on 24 April 1965. -
Institute for Outdoor Learning began
The Institute for Outdoor Learning encourages outdoor learning by developing quality, safety and opportunity to experience outdoor activity provision and by supporting and enhancing the good practice of those who work in the outdoors. -
National Curriculum created
The National Curriculum was introduced into England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a nationwide curriculum for primary and secondary state schools following the Education Reform Act 1988. -
Lyme Bay Tragedy
The Lyme Bay kayaking tragedy was the deaths of four teenagers on a sea kayaking accident in the Lyme Bay area which led to legislation to regulate adventure activities centres working with young people in the UK. On 22 March 1993, a group of eight schoolchildren and their teacher from Southway Community College, Plymouth were accompanied by two instructors from an outdoor centre on a kayak trip across Lyme Bay, on the south coast of England. -
Activity Act created
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Adventure Activities Licensing Authority created
Adventure activities licensing ensures that activity providers follow good safety management practices.
These should allow young people to experience exciting and stimulating activities outdoors without being exposed to avoidable risks of death or disabling injury. -
Lyn Cook published the first book documenting the history of OE in the UK
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Countryside Agency formed
The Countryside Agency in England was a statutory body set up in 1999 with the task of improving the quality of the rural environment and the lives of those living in it. The Agency was formed by merging the Countryside Commission and the Rural Development Commission. Its powers were inherited from those bodies. -
PE curriculum includes OE in PE, but not compulsory
PE remains a compulsory national curriculum subject at all 4 key stages. New statutory programmes of study will be introduced from September 2014. -
Countryside & Rights of Way Act of 2000 Secured Walkers rights over common land & open country
The Act implements the so-called "right to roam" long sought by the Ramblers' Association and its predecessors, on certain upland and uncultivated areas of England and Wales. This element of the act was implemented in stages as definitive maps of different regions were produced. The act refers to areas of 'mountain, moor, heath and down' in addition to registered common land; not all uncultivated land is covered. -
October River-Walking on a School Trip leads to two girls from Royds Comprehensive downing in Stainforth Beck, Settle
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WGL Award begins
This award trains and assesses candidates in the skills required to lead groups in non-mountainous terrain known as upland, moor, fell and down. The Peak District, Dartmoor and the Pentland Hills are typical areas where Walking Group Leader holders lead groups. -
Glenridding Beck Dorwning
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Joseph Lister from Tadcaster Grammar School died potholing on a school trip
14 year old Joseph Lister died on a school trip whilst potholing into a lake. The water was too cold and the child suffered from quick hypothermia. -
PE curriculum mentions OE as a means to provide challenging opportunities
The current national curriculum programmes of study for PE at key stages 3 and 4 have been disapplied with effect from 1 September 2013 and are no longer statutory. -
Lord Adonis' manifesto, pledges one major OE trip per pupil whilst at school
