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Fishing For Schools

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In the Classroom

No one child learns in the same way.  Our aim is to use angling as a springboard for pupils to understand the basics of education in an exciting and individual way, whilst offering a healthy outdoor hobby that can last a lifetime.

By using fishing as a medium, it allows young people to understand the basics of geography, mathematics – weights, measures, geometry – and literacy. We open up a world of aquatic conservation and preservation and the complex world beneath our rivers, lakes and streams.

 

Our Sessions

Our practical fishing sessions provide an opportunity to put into practice topics and subjects learnt in the classroom whilst exploring the exciting possibilities offered by angling.  We offer a unique insight into the aquatic environment and creatures that inhabit the areas we fish. 

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Our Offer

We work with primary and comprehensive schools, special educational needs schools and pupil referral units.
We work with specialist educational provisions, supporting young people who have been permanently excluded from mainstream schools or are at risk of exclusion.
We also work with inner city schools where access to the countryside is often limited for pupils.
All Fishing for Schools coaches are licenced coaches, with a wealth of experience to share.
We work across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
We provide four initial sessions free of charge.

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Why take part

Fishing for Schools is a free resource to schools. Delivered over four sessions, we assist schools in delivering their outdoor learning strategy by providing a positive outdoor experience to young people aged 10-16 years.

Our programme helps develop key life skills including team building, leadership, enquiry and thinking skills. We help deepen and enrich learning. Sessions are linked to key curriculum subjects with objectives agreed in conjunction with school, staff and students.

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How a child benefits

We help young people fulfil their potential. Our programme offers a range of experiences that helps your child develop key life skills including team building, leadership, enquiry and thinking skills.

We engage young people in key curriculum subjects including engineering, science, geography, cookery, ICT and maths and we make it fun. Fishing for Schools actively improves academic achievement and our programme also complements the skills section of the Bronze Duke of Edinburgh Awards or the Princes Trust Achieve programme.

Fishing for Schools enables youngsters to work towards qualifications including:

  • Icon The Certificate of Personal Effectiveness (CoPE)
  • Icon BTEC Qualifications
  • Icon AIM Awards
  • Icon The Angling Trust’s CAST Award