ABOUT ANGLING4SUCCESS

The Angling4Success outdoor experiential learning programme expands on Energize’s 10 years delivery of quality youth work and educational initiatives.

It is designed to take young people out of the pressures of the classroom (temporarily or as a parallel alternative) to keep them in education and provides schools with a curriculum alternative for certain young people, aged 10 to 19, who might better achieve their potential in an outdoor setting.

Angling4Success taps into the young people’s learning potential, using a mentoring approach and outdoor learning situations to teach them, among others, planning, problem solving, teamwork, learning new skills and enables them to achieve results through tenacity and patience. Success is rewarded through accreditation and measurable outcomes. Future progression routes are also always discussed.

Angling4Success combines fishing & photography in a calm, relaxed lakeside setting. Rather than produce world class anglers or photographers, the empahisis and underpinning principles of the course  are to nurture proactive and contributing members of society.

In order to achieve these objectives, Angling4Success is working alongside Get Hooked on Fishing (ghof.org) - a national charity with 10 years experience delivering Angling based inclusion projects - to run the Eastern Region of their national strategy.

TERM-TIME TARGET AUDIENCE

The course is open to any student aged 10 - 19. Student profiles that have benefitted already from the Angling4Success course, on an alternative curriculum basis, are many and varied, but include the following recurring characteristics and combinations thereof:

STUDENT A - LOW SELF ESTEEM and low expectations of ability and future prospects

STUDENT B - POOR LITERACY or other learning difficulties have led to disengagement from the mainstream education system. Low achievement fuels disruptive behaviour, aggression and (possible) exclusion.

STUDENT C - MANUALLY SKILLED individual who leans towards, e.g., construction and aspires to become a skilled tradesmen after school and is detached from any academic aspirations.

STUDENT D - SHORT ATTENTION SPAN gets student into trouble in a large class. We have consistently witnessed the phenomenon that students who cannot still and concentrate for more than a few minutes in a classroom can sit uncharacteristically focused, laskeside for hours.

STUDENT E - OUTDOORS TYPE who thrives in the outdoors and is likely to progress to agricultural college and/or chose a career in the outdoors

STUDENT F - LOVES FISHING! and shows very little enthusiasm or passion for much else

We can, however tailor the course to any group of any age. Call us to discuss your requirements. Tel: 01234 272101

SCHOOL HOLIDAY TARGET AUDIENCE

The course is open to any young people who would like to fish and learn fishing. We can offer as much or as little coaching as required. We provide everythinG else. Participants need only bring a pcked lunch.