Schools

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We make planning events and trips a breeze, in turn the students we teach become well rounded and confident individuals, ready to achieve anything. Schools have integrated our approach and techniques into the fabric of school life including: activity days, camps, humanitarian aid and expeditions.

Our school camps and activity days can be a one off activity, tailored to your schools ethos and goals, or progressive throughout each year in school. We have curriculums designed to fit into what the students are learning for a variety of subjects.

Every time your students spend time with our world class instructors they will learn something new about the great outdoors and about themselves. The personal growth on these activities have been proven and documented, so much so that several of the students who have been through the training now work for Polaris, rubbing shoulders with seasoned instructors 20 or more years their senior.

Don’t forget the teachers. Most of our team have taught in schools, so our courses are all designed to let you, the teaching staff, enjoy the experience and have a great time. We try hard to look after you guys.

Some of our courses are listed below, but give us a call as nearly all our school work is customised to your particular needs.

Travel Safety Training

Travel safety course and sunset in hands in the amazon

Hong Kong - a bustling city that sketches a stark contrast with the jungle and the desert phases. Lots to learn about navigating and staying safe in all environments.

Overlooking Hong King on the layover return from Borneo. The group of boys is from a london school.

Scorpion - look out!!! Check your boots before putting them on! This is a lesson from one of the local instructors on how to handle a scorpion safely!

The sun is setting as the group make their way upriver in the little boat. The bright orange of the bouyancy aids is almost the same colour as the sun on the water.

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Travel Safety Training

Duration: Various options: 1 day to a week long camp

Want to be better prepared, and feel more secure whilst on the move? We have teamed up with Krav Maga UK for a brilliant education on how to stay safe whilst traveling the world. This course will give you an in depth and detailed knowledge of how to be well prepared and confident as you travel. Whether you're a student on a gap year, a working professional or on a personal adventure, this course will help you to optimise your enjoyment. You will come away better prepared to cope with the pressure when things go wrong, maximising your opportunities to get the most out of your holiday or trip. Find Out More

Course Content

Prior preparation including research, paperwork, clothing and equipment
Map skills, route setting and local knowledge
Emergency escape routes and evasion
Martial arts and self defence training with nationally accredited certificates
Danger zone preparation, both human and natural
Camping techniques including camouflage and concealment
Wilderness and urban survival skills
Bushcraft and field techniques including knife use and fire lighting
Fauna and flora: key dangerous plants and animals, plus food sources
First aid in the field: what to take and how to use it

No matter where you chose to wander, from the Scottish Highlands to the Favelas of Brazil, this course has something for you.

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Survival Training

Work in progress... a spatula in the making on a log next to the bushcraft knife with a delightfully marked wooden handle.

Ready, aim, throw... the group is learning to use an atlatl to throw their spears further and with more accuracy.

Sausages sizzling in a pan and skewered veg cooking over the open fire

Mat showing a grass snake to a group of children.

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Survival Training

Duration: 2 Days - 1 Night

A WHOLE NEW EXPERIENCE AND OUTLOOK ON LIFE. The Survival Training offers outdoor learning at its best. Participants learn the skills needed to survive outdoors in all seasons, with winter being our most popular season for learning. Develop your bushcraft and survival skills to an extremely high standard, and finish with the knowledge, attitude and skills necessary to thrive in even the most challenging of situations and environments. This applies equally to the outdoors as it does to other aspects of a persons’ life. Find Out More

Course Content

Survival priorities and attitude, expedition planning, preparation and safety
Fire craft - safety, ignition, fire lays
Knife craft, safety, the law, carving and the use of woodland tools
Stalking, tracking, primitive technologies and weapons
Search and rescue, first aid, managing emergencies
Foraging for wild foods & medicines, outdoor cooking, sourcing and purifying water
Camp craft - safety and organisation
Effective communication, leadership, teamwork and wellbeing
Wild navigation, compass and map use, Morse code and night navigation
Shelter - natural and man made, rope craft, knots and tarpology

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School Expeditions

Jet ski having fun on the water going fast

Machu Picchu, Peru expedition overlooking the ancient city from the sun gate inca trail

4x4 desert running with the dune buggies in the Ica Desert

Sea Kayak expedition with blue waters and sea shore

giraffe's on the Serengeti planes with Kilimanjaro in the background

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School Expeditions

Duration: 5-21 days

If you want your students to become strong and independent world-ready young leaders we can make it happen. Find Out More

Expeditions

Arctic Gold
Arctic Winter
Jet Ski Survival - UK
Borneo Jungle and Humanitarian Aid Project
Sea Kayak - UK
Peru Jungle Expedition and Scientific Exploration in the Desert
Tanzania Kilimanjaro

Our expeditions are unique, providing the most inspirational and exceptional opportunities for personal development. Through the survival training programme prior to the expedition you will be able to thrive in these remote locations. You'll be able to focus on enjoying the experience and applying your skills while helping others. You will experience new landscapes and meet people from different cultures.

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School Day courses

spoon carving course using a crook knife

sanding a spoon when it is nearly sinished

Young People learning about wildlife and surviving from one of the Polaris Outdoor Instructors. Nev is describing how important it is to stay hydrated and to keep your water clean and safe.

Children building trust and discovering how hard it is to walk in a perfectly straight line while blindfolded. In pairs, one child is blind folded, their task is to walk across the field in a straight line. Their partner is there to keep them safe but not to guide them. They are not managing to walk in a straight line!

Creating clay coil pots at the Home Education Wild Gathering

Evaluating the Polaris Outdoor experience. Every participant gets to feed back on their views of how the expedition has gone. A great chance for reflection on what went well, what supported personal development, what was challenging and what could be done even better next time.

Child working with a parent to create a tent peg, using a variety of techniques to demonstrate safe knife use.

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School Day courses

Duration: 1 Day

Visit one of our beautiful woodland sites or we can come to you and design something bespoke. Our highly skilled teachers and instructors tailor your session to meet your personal goals, delivering with fun and enthusiasm. Find Out More

Courses can include...

Whole year group/house events: "Getting to know you" days, induction activities and fun camps.
Young leaders and prefects: Training, values and development for young leaders.
Spoon carving classes, wood work and tool use: fitting with KS3-5 Design Technology and Art and incredible therapy and wellness for those who need a confidence boost or an opportunity to create something amazing.
Personal wellbeing and reward: We have a vast amount of experience working with students with specific needs, and rewarding those who push their boundaries to make great progress.
Bushcraft and wilderness skills: fire, shelter, foraging for wild foods and medicines, cooking over an open fire, shelter building and safety, use of primitive weapon technologies, animal stalking, tracking and more.
Practical skills: cooking, personal and camp hygiene, food and nutrition, time keeping, organisational skills and kit management.
Expedition skills and global travel safety training: camping methods, first aid, search and rescue and modern navigation. Travel safety courses for industry and gap year students.
Night games, wide games and Polaris Olympics: Just lots and lots of fun!

Get in touch to find out what we can do for you and your students.

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School Staff and leadership training

yogo mediation lady siting in the field maeditating

group of peole standing around a warmly lit tent in the dark

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School Staff and leadership training

Duration: 1 Day

Helping your team perform to the very best of their ability is extremely important to us. We have handled teams in some quite stressful and demanding environments. Often the work environment can be as tough as the Arctic cold or the desert heat; this is where we can help. Find Out More

We can assist you to...

Improve Wellbeing
Excel as a coherent staff team and develop personal resilience
Inspire and coach others
Lead, serve and manage effectively in times of change
Use the outdoors to teach and bring alive multiple aspects of your life and work
Improve mental and emotional tenacity through connections to nature
Develop a learning and performance based culture

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School Camps, Learning and Activity Days

Children folding up a tarpaulin ready to use next time. Being careful with equipment is essential when in a survival situation.

Young girl practising safe knife use while whittling a spatula from green wood.

Through the trees peek at a group discovering what poisons and remedies can be found in the wild plants and trees

Child Day Ticket for Event. Practising spear throwing as part of the primitive weapons class

Group of children in a lesson at the wild festival

Eight smiling young people, all wrapped up in Arctic winter gear to keep themselves safe and warm. A brilliant blue arctic sky and a view over the frozen water of the river behind.

Demonstrating how to use a tarpaulin to make a stretcher

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School Camps, Learning and Activity Days

Duration: Typically range from 1-4 nights

School camps and activity days are a fantastic opportunity for students to be inspired, to develop valuable academic and life skills. Participants will experience how to really survive and thrive in the wild; and for pupils and staff to celebrate and have a brilliant time! They can be held on school site or with us at one of our diverse locations. Our school camps and activity days can be a one off activity, tailored to your schools ethos and goals, or progressive throughout each year in school. We have curriculums designed to fit into what the students are learning for a variety of subjects. Find Out More

In partnership with the school’s own teaching staff, we seek to inspire and equip each student to be the very best they can be. The result is better motivated and more engaged pupils back at school and at home.

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Extreme Survival Training

learning new skills, boats rafted together

Travelling upstream in Borneo - some of the most remote places are only accessible by boat

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Extreme Survival Training

Duration: 5-10 days

Once you are well trained and have a number of Polaris Outdoor experiences under your belt it is time to take things to the next level... The extreme winter survival trip is a 5-10 day excursion where your survival skills will be built up and tested to make you a truly ‘world ready’ traveller. Using minimal tools and equipment you will travel from place to place in the wilderness searching for food and resources. With your map skills resource caches can be found to enrich your experience. You will navigate difficult terrain, make important decisions, walk, canoe, scramble and wild camp in different conditions. Find Out More

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