PERRY OUTDOOR EDUCATION TRUST
Engaged and Empowered Young People
Since 2003 POET has assisted low decile secondary schools to facilitate the delivery of outdoor education experiences for their students Find out more about what we do.
We work with a number of partner schools within the Waikato and Bay of Plenty. See the schools we work with.
Check out our latest updates here.
POET Coordinators work alongside teachers supporting them to deliver outdoor experiences for their own students. Find out more.
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What's up with high ropes? (see what we did there)
Check out our latest blog post to find out why we use them on POET programmes.
Highs & Lows - Perry Outdoor Education Trust
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One of the activities supported on POET camps are high and low ropes. So why do we use high ropes in programs? Our programs use adventurous activities to create a progression of challenges that ask students to both push themselves personally and work together as a group. One of the activities utilis...Our annual report is here! We wanted to celebrate the stories, people and places from the last year...
POET 2018 Annual Report | One page about what we've been up to
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Welcome to our Annual Report A word from our Chair Marlene Julian As the wider world, and our youth especially, becomes more and more focused on the screens in front of their faces, POET continues to work to get our young people out and about, engaging with their local environments. “There is a gr...
Awesome work guys.
You guys rock! My boys have great experiences on school camps part funded by you so thanks! 😃😃
We're very proud of these former POET students - From left: Zia Tilsley, Cameron Keeys, Phoebe Comins, Keegan Hall, Sara Hall and Natalie Milicich - well deserved!It was great to meet our Perry Outdoor Education Trust Head Start Scholarship recipients today - we're looking forward to seeing where these talented young people go!
It's great to work with people as passionate about the outdoors as we are - we talked to the talented duo behind Play Creative on the blog today
Play Outdoors - Perry Outdoor Education Trust
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Hi, we’re Dan and Nicky from Playcreative. We’ve both grown up in nature, just slightly different forms of nature, due to our super active and adventurous families; Dan grew up riding mountain bike trails almost before he could walk, and Nicky grew up on and around the ocean sailing boats and li...
LOVE 🙂 love 🙂 love 🙂 Play Creative and POET. No surprises there!!
Super kind of you guys to feature us <3 We LOVE working with you and helping to make a difference for kiwi kids and the environment 🙂 Keep up the amazing work!
Here's another story from one of our POET people, Emma. Emma shares a little bit about why she believes in learning outside the classroom....
Our People: Emma - Perry Outdoor Education Trust
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Hi I’m Emma and I am a POET board member. I was born and raised in the UK, spending most of my time in east Lincolnshire. I was very fortunate to learn how to ride horses when I was 4 years old and looked after my own pony by the time I was 5. This took …Here's a quick update to let you know what's been happening out on camps so far.
Camp Wrap Up #1 - Perry Outdoor Education Trust
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So what happened to February being the hottest, driest month?! It is about the mid-point in term one, and time is flying by. We have had camps out in Raglan, Mangakino, Karapiro, Karangahake, Pauanui, Ohope and everywhere in between. Lots of events were planned for the first half of this term but we...Our Partners and supporters
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