2024-2025 Outdoors @ Riversides

 Another academic year has flown by. Below are a collection of pictures highlighting the experiences our pupils have enjoyed throughout the season.

They have been pushed further and faster. Climbed higher and jumped farther than they could have ever believed. They've been cold and wet, excitable and inquisitive, muddy and moody. There has been some amazing progress made by our pupils this year as they learn to open themselves up to new things and move forward in activities that they are already comfortable with. 

A huge emphasis is placed on them managing their levels of risk and reward. Looking at what they are about to attempt; what could go wrong if it does go wrong but conversely how good they would feel when they achieve something that they thought was beyond them.

I am so proud of all of our pupils whenever I have the chance to show them what their time outside can reveal.

Go Riversides.

Controlled risk-taking by an adventurous P2 pupil.

Open water safety lessons turns into a fun, cooling off splash-about.

P3 utilising some windblown trees on Abberley Hill for Parkour.

P2 pupil showing that you can get totally soaked in 2 feet of water.

P2's very own Ninja Warrior.

A Year 11 pupil testing the strength of a lazy hazel tree.

Year 9 doing what they do best...pushing the boundaries.

One of the school's most fearless pupils.

Impromptu long jump competition at Hartlebury Common.

Year 11 seeing what a gale really does to a parachute on top of Worcestershire Beacon.

One of P3 seeing life from a different viewpoint.

Year 11 scurrying around in the winter mud at Hillfield Coppice.

P2 on a freezing day testing ice in the woods at Hawksbatch. (NB. Shorts!!)

Fun in the snow for Year 10 at Fort Royal Park in Spring.

Year 11 pushing the limit with the rope swing at Knapp and Papermill.

On top of Titterstone Clee, windy and cold. Why not stand in a puddle?

P2 pupils monkeying around at Hawksbatch Wood.

One of P3 pupils displaying his tree-climbing prowess.

Year 7 at Hartlebury Park.

The ever excitable, over exuberant wild boy of Year 8.

Year 9 trying to make the apparatus at Hartlebury even more exciting.

Stuck in this position for ages...two feet off the ground.

P3 showing some controlled risk taking and dealing positively with peer pressure.

Year 7 enjoying the fabulous playground at Priory Park.

A muddy Year 11 pupil drags himself out of a bomb-hole at the Bromyard Downs.

P2...too cool for school.

Even Forest school can be exciting at times for P1.

Some of the pupils need a reminder to remember to be scared!

Year 8 exploring the amazing limestone tufa at Southstone.

When you realise the swing should've been set a little higher!!