School for Adventure
HERE are three Outward Bound ‘" Trust Schools in England. "To realise his better self,’ the Trust believes, "everyone must pass in youth through some test of adventure and hardship and the adventure must be real." So at the two sea schools at Aberdovey, Wales, and Moray Firth, Scotland, and also at the Mountain School in Cumberland, boys from fifteen and a half to nineteen and a half meet with a spirit of adventure which cannot be found in ordinary schools. The boys go on sea voyages, or thirty-five mile tramps in one day and are taught sea and mountain rescue. The work of the Trust is international and boys have come from many European countries as well as from Asia and Africa. Various bodies sponsor that trust, such as industrial companies, banks, insurance companies and schools which also nominate the boys for their twenty-six day course, Local education authorities have the power to make grants for boys they select, and a number of charitable"organisations give bursaries to boys who are unable to find the fees. The BBC’s feature programme And Not to Yield takes listeners with Wynford Vaughan Thomas to the Mountain School, fifty acres situated halfway up Eskdale, one of the most beautiful dales in Cumberland. The programme will be heard from 2YA on Saturday, February 12, at 10.30 a.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 21
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224School for Adventure New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 810, 4 February 1955, Page 21
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