Learning Away is a special Initiative funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation that aims to support schools in significantly enhancing young people's learning, achievement and well-being by using innovative residential experiences as an integral part of the curriculum.

'Learning Away was founded on our belief that high quality residential experiences can provide extremely powerful learning opportunities for children and young people - and indeed, for adults as well. When we considered that less than a fifth of a young person's waking time is spent in school, the opportunity to engage young people with much more intensive, rich and deep learning experiences that residentials can offer was compelling.' Paul Hamlyn Foundation

The Paul Hamlyn Foundation have create a forum for participants of the initiative to collaborate and share best practice. Follow this link to Login.  

Our Learning Away Partnership

16 clusters around the country are part of this initiative with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, our cluster has four partners:

Thomas Tallis School 
Tallis is a Leading Edge Secondary School with Speicalist Arts Status and a School of Creativity. They are the Lead school within the cluster. 

Charlton School
Charlton School is a Group 7 Community Special (ages 11–19) School for students with low incidence special educational needs.

Kidbrooke Park Primary
Kidbrooke Park Primary is a larger-than-average-sized school. The school has gained a number of awards, including the Healthy School and Activemark. 

Widehorizons Outdoor Education Trust
Widehorizons is a leading provider of quality Outdoor Education for schools, continuing education, youth groups and the wider community.