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Pink Academy Goes Green

At The Bourne Academy, adventurous students are fortunate to learn about Outdoor Education and have a very successful outdoor education site with its own lake, assault course and copse area with fire pit.   Students use the area to learn survival skills and include fire lighting with sticks and flint, building rafts, skinning rabbits, boning fish and usually end their lesson toasting marshmallows! 

At The Bourne Academy, adventurous students are fortunate to learn about Outdoor Education and have a very successful outdoor education site with its own lake, assault course and copse area with fire pit.   Students use the area to learn survival skills and include fire lighting with sticks and flint, building rafts, skinning rabbits, boning fish and usually end their lesson toasting marshmallows!

In the past, students, staff and visitors have had to walk from the Green Lane site to the main school building to use the toilets, missing out on tuition and disrupting lessons.  Now, thanks to a Local Improvement Fund (LIF) Grant, from Bournemouth Borough Council, £1,000 has been awarded to install a new Eco Waterless Compost Toilet

The new eco toilet is ideal in situations such as the Outdoor Education site, where access to mains water and drainage services is difficult or impossible.  It has a pleasing timber appearance and functions simply with an inbuilt device to separate urine from solid waste, before adding composing sawdust after use.

The site is a very popular location both with students, primary schools and the local community.  Several local primary schools have visited the Academy to learn outdoor skills and the area has been used for teambuilding events too.  It was booked nearly every weekend during the summer by an external Children’s Party organiser, Nerf Attack, who organises children’s parties, with campfires/hot dogs teaching survival skills etc.