The John Muir Award

The John Muir Award is an environmental award scheme focused on wild places. It encourages awareness and responsibility for the natural environment in a spirit of fun and adventure. It is the main educational initiative of the John Muir Trust and is open to all.

To achieve a John Muir Award, participants meet 4 challenges- they discover a wild place, actively explore it, do something to conserve it, and share their experiences. Locations can range from school grounds, to local parks, to remote landscapes.

It offers an ideal structure for contributing to curriculum requirements, and is appropriate for upper primary, secondary, alternative curriculum and special needs pupils. The John Muir Award can give focus and structure to a residential course, field trip or excursions to local areas. As well as linking with formal education strands it can be integrated into after-school clubs, extra-curricular activity or school grounds projects.

It can also provide a framework for exploiting people and place, and experiences can be included in a student's record of achievement and C.V.

"The John Muir Award offers an excellent framework for learning out of doors. It hits a spot that is often missing in education today- it's a fun way to learn." (Duncan Cameron, Lochaber Pupil Support Unit, Highland Council.)

Link: The John Muir Award

Email: info@johnmuiraward.org