The John Muir Award at Low Mill
The John Muir Award is a scheme whereby students discover and share the environment and learn how to conserve it. In completion of the award they can achieve a certificate.
• The award is based upon the environment and how important it is to protect it.
• The award helps to encourage ecological/environmental-like thinking in the individual.
• Preservation, Protection and Promotion of Wilderness places is a central theme of the award.
 The John Muir Award as part of your programme.
The award becomes an integral part of your stay at Low Mill. It can be a small or large component to your stay.
Your programme can be largely based upon outdoor activities, which is what we do best! Through the use of activities such as Climbing and Canoeing (or whatever you choose), the group can explore, discover and conserve their new surroundings, maintaining the main John Muir principles.
Your John Muir award can be largely based around the environment and geographical interest. Outdoor activities can be part of the award however the main emphasis can be the award, if you choose so.
The award can be tailor made for an individual person or for school/college curriculum.
The John Muir Award can incorporated within specific areas of school study:
Geography
Environmental studies
IT
Art
Outdoor education
Personal & social development
Plus many more.
“The John Muir Award scheme is an ideal structure for meeting the requirements of the curriculum - it is appropriate for middle & upper primary and secondary school pupils.”
So you have an educational reason to come and complete the John Muir award.
John Muir himself
John Muir was a Scots man, originating from Dunbar, East Lothian. As a young man he was fascinated by ‘wild places', and began initiatives to preserve these.
John Muir set up the world's first national park and was committed to ‘putting something back' into wild places
The John Muir Trust (JMT)
The JMT was founded in 1983 to ensure that wild and natural places are protected. John Muir purchased land such as Ben Nevis to preserve the Scottish National Heritage. The John Muir Trust works to protect wild land through management.
For more information ...
Call us on 01969 650432 or contact us here.
Or ...
The John Muir Official web site
The John Muir handbook
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