{"id":56,"date":"2016-03-12T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2016\/03\/12\/paddling-his-own-kayak\/"},"modified":"2016-04-20T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T15:13:34","slug":"paddling-his-own-kayak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/2016\/03\/12\/paddling-his-own-kayak\/","title":{"rendered":"PADDLING HIS OWN KAYAK\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/endeavour\/files\/2016\/03\/kayak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/endeavour\/files\/2016\/03\/kayak-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"kayak\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"><\/a>Another one of the projects from 2013 was carried out by a Primary 6 boy who was interested in wilderness survival and wanted to take up Kayaking, as there is a local club on Islay.&nbsp; He planned to carry out a kayaking expedition to Jura, the neighbouring Island, with his dad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/endeavour\/files\/2016\/03\/kayak2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/endeavour\/files\/2016\/03\/kayak2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"kayak2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a>There were a lot of challenging skills to be learned for this project which involved careful planning.&nbsp; After he organised a meeting with a local coastguard he encountered his first problem; the currents between Islay and Jura are too strong to safely Kayak.&nbsp; He then altered his plans to make the trip to one of the small uninhabited islands off the coast of Islay.&nbsp; Attending Kayak club weekly with his father he built up his skills, and in school he used maps to prepare his route, learning about tides and prevailing winds.&nbsp; Using examples from his father&rsquo;s work he made his own risk assessments that included detailed plans of what to do in an emergency.&nbsp; He finally took the trip to Texa island, camping overnight and successfully concluded his Endeavour.&nbsp; Motivated by his interest in the project, this learner was successfully able to apply new skills in a meaningful context, and although the project was not directly related to a future career, the skills he developed would be useful in any career path he might choose.&nbsp; He even recorded his endeavours in a blog: http:\/\/1kidskayakingadventer.blogspot.co.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of the projects from 2013 was carried out by a Primary 6 boy who was interested in wilderness survival and wanted to take up Kayaking, as there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4512],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endeavour","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/peps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}