Outdoor Education Unit Standards

We are a registered Private Training Establishment based in Auckland.  We are the only specialist outdoor education organisation in the upper North Island with a broad scope of Outdoor Education Unit Standards plus our own Certificates registered with NZQA.

We specialise in the development and delivery of educational programmes using outdoor and adventurous activities for both personal development and skill development.  Our AdventureWorks Programmes enable students to gain increased self-worth, confidence, personal and social effectiveness.  We have a broad scope to deliver Unit Standards in the Outdoor Recreation domain to Level 4.  

We have a large pool of instructors that cross a range of skills in order to deliver safe and effective programs. These include program development skills, technical and safety skills, facilitation and teaching skills and understand the assessment process and compliance responsibilities
Our experiential learning approach and interactive nature of all our programmes are focussed on:
  • Students setting and working on personal goals
  • Group discussing how they want to be and what's getting in the way of them being an effective group to complete their goals
  • Reflecting on how they are influenced and influence others in the group
  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Developing self management and leadership skills
  • Challenging themselves in a supportive and safe environment
  • Challenging self beliefs that are limiting
To see the full list of Unit Standards AdventureWorks have Consent to Assess click here- AWL Consent to Assess Unit Standards
Kaimais Rogaine
We have developed an exciting event based on the Kaimais. This Rogaine requires groups of up to 8 students to work together over a 24/48 hour period to visit as many locations and complete as many tasks as possible. The activities could include mountain biking, navigate, abseil and climbing, archery, swimming plus various initiatives challenges. We have successfully delivered this for Carmel College and Howick College and would love to share this with more schools.
The event is designed to support assessment for achievement standard 2.4 as well as unit standards 425, 426 and a 431
Types of groups that currently include our courses in their programmes:
  • Senior Physical Education classesStart Courses
  • Senior Outdoor Education Classes
  • Gateway/ Transition
  • Sports and Service Academy
  • Teen Parent Units
  • Community group
Challenge course programs
Challenge Course Programmes. Our programmes produce meaningful changes in groups and individuals. They are not just an outdoor recreation activity, they are a personal and social change process that uses  Challenge Courses as the medium for the development of interpersonal, social, communication, teamwork and leadership skills.
  • We can base our programmes at most Challenge Courses throughout the North Island. The AdventureWorks Challenge Course on the Unitec Campus, Mt Albert is our main Challenge Course and operations base.
  • Our programmes qualify for STAR funding.
  • We can assess unit standards 467, 470, 471 at level 2. This has been our biggest program over the last 20 years. Very popular with lots of encouraging feedback every time we deliver it.
  • we can assess unit standards 468 and 474 at Level 3. These unit standards provide opportunity for you 13 students to deliver a one-day program to junior students on our challenge course. Our instructors assess them and maintain overall responsibility for safety
Supporting schools unique needs
What we do best is work with a school to identify the best type of program to meet the objectives and outcomes that the students need. Every school has different needs and different timetabling, budgeting and other restrictions.

​Sometimes, it works for teachers to do some of the classwork using our resources before and after an event. This reduces the cost of our involvement and increases the continuity of engagement with students. Or, we can take full responsibility for the delivery of units of work including visiting the school during class time

With Mark's experience designing, writing programs and delivering programs were able to work with you to work out how to support you to best meet your needs.
Other unit standards
  • Bush, overnight camping, navigation
  • weather, clothing and equipment 
  • mountain biking, cycle touring
  • kayaking
  • rock climbing, abseiling

We have a huge range of unit standards that we have consent to assess for. Mark is involved with the review of unit standards at levels 1 to 3 and contributing to the writing of the high ropes unit standards. If you have any questions about what could be used to support your program get in touch.
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Professional Compliance
AdventureWorks is OutdoorsMark safety certified, we undertake a surveillance audit every year and a full audit every three years as a part of the adventure activity regulations 2016

Adventureworks is a registered private training establishment, we undertake external evaluation and review every four years. We are currently a category to provider


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