NCEA Level 3 Outdoor Education
13ODE Subject DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Mr A. Bartrum.
Prior LearningIt is helpful to have level 2 Outdoor Education and/or a passion/experience in the outdoors. A positive attitude and willingness to get amongst it is important. If you do not like getting dirty please do not take this subject.
There are camps that are complusory for students to attend.
There are 6-8 day trips
All the rest of the activities are done during lunchtimes and last period classes.
Outdoor Education
Prerequisite: None
Students will participate in Outdoor Education activities during class time, with a once a week offsite activity during a lunchtime and their Outdoor Education lesson. There are some day trips and overnight trips throughout the year. It is expected that ODE students participate in all trips, camps, and other class activities. The confirmed contexts for the course are rock climbing, adrenalin forest, adventure based learning activities and tramping. The following contexts to be confirmed on the basis of teacher expertise – surfing, paddle boarding or kayaking and mountain biking.
It is also desirable for students to have an iPad or other device. Students may take both 13 Sports Science and 13 Outdoor Education. There is a crossover of 4 credits. Both subjects also come from the Physical Education domain so only count as one subject for university entry. Please see HOD if you have any questions.
Subject Overview
Term 1
91501 Quality Performance
91505 Contemporary Leadership
Term 2
91789 Devise Strategies for a Physical Outcome
30935 Develop and implement an exercise plan
Term 3
91504 - Safety Managaement
Assessment Policy & Procedures Assessment Information
Students will be assessed at the end of each body of work. There will be a range of modes of assessment from written tasks to videos, oral presentations and in person demonstrations.
It is important to note that if a student is looking to take Sports Science and Outdoor Education (two seperate classes) their credits come from the same learning domain so they only count as one subject together when looking at things like university entrance.
$120 Kayaking
$180 High Ropes
$250 Whangamata Camp