Bohunt Education Trust (BET) announces the launch of its first ‘Outdoor Wellbeing’ website, aimed at helping students get outdoors and improving student mental health.
BET – a multi-academy trust of eight schools, with over 10,000 students – advocates the benefits and advantages that being outdoors has on a student’s positive mental and physical wellbeing. An intensive outdoor programme has been shown to have benefits in developing the game-changer student, the main ethos of the Trust.
BET students are encouraged to explore the outdoors and participate in the Trust’s full programme of outdoor activities during their time in school and during the COVID-19 pandemic the idea to normalise being outdoors has never been more important. To motive students further, BET has developed a new outdoor wellbeing website that is accessible to all students and which aims to encourage young people to explore the world around them.
Launched in time for the Spring Term half-term, the website offers outdoor wellbeing ideas and challenges that students can participate in. In addition, BET students will enjoy a day to get outdoors and complete a series of outdoor and wellbeing activities. The socially distanced ‘social day’ will culminate with students sharing their achievements and activities amongst the Trust via all of BET’s outdoor social media channels.
Students can choose what activities they participate in and the day will be delivered exclusively via the new website. The activities will range from taking part in some forest yoga or micro-photography to stargazing or even making a bug hotel! There will also be an opportunity to for students to plan their own outdoor adventures with a professional adventurer!
Students can submit their work to BET for dissemination via the Trust’s many social media platforms, making students their own social media ‘influencers’ for the day!
Liz Briggs, BET OA DofE Manager, said:
“At BET, we know that getting outdoors has a significant impact on wellbeing and have designed this website for our students to try new activities that will help them experience their local area in a new way. I am really looking forward to seeing our students enjoy their own outdoors adventure and share their experiences on our outdoors social media.”
Todd Raetzke, Director of Outdoor Education for Bohunt Education Trust said,
“I am delighted to offer the new wellbeing website, aimed at helping all students explore the benefits of an outdoor education. The site focuses on student learning whilst energising their minds and bodies. Anything that takes students out of the classroom or away from their screens, even if it is for a short space of time, has been proven to have physical and mental wellbeing benefits. BET champions the unique opportunity that learning outdoors can create”.
Neil Strowger, Trust Leader at Bohunt Education Trust, said,
“Wellbeing plays an immensely important role in the innovative and pioneering approach to outdoor education that we foster as a trust. This website, like the BET DofE Game-Changers app and BET DofE Expedition training website, is one element of a range of resources we have developed to support students, which highlight the importance of, and ongoing achievements in, delivering a broad programme of outdoor education to our students.”
Visit the new BET Wellbeing website here.
