Outdoor Education

Treverton is well known for its pioneering in the Outdoor Education field. A proudly Eco-School, Wessa award winner, we see our role in the sustainability of our Natural resources as firmly grounded in the education of our learners for and towards sustainable living and growth.

With the increase in urbanisation and a merging between online and real-life living, there is a growing body of academic research demonstrating the positive impact of outdoor education on human learning, well-being and creativity.

Our heritage of outdoor education, from the compulsory Sundays outdoors as a boarder, weekend hikes and adventures in the Drakensberg mountains, rock faces and rivers to the Grade 7 programme, enabled Grade 7s to immerse themselves in conservation fully. Starting from Grade 4, our learners experience overnight camps off campus, utilising adventure and outdoor camp specialists to add another layer to their ongoing outdoor education. These trips grow in duration and frequency as they advance through the senior phase.

Outdoor education allows each learner to think, try, share, use different ways, make mistakes, question, feel worthy, build autonomy, and achieve self-esteem. This encourages participation and collaboration, competition is limited and punitive assessments and tests are not the measure of a person’s value.