WIS Outdoor Education - Semester 2, 2026

The Outdoor Education Program continues second semester with our elective trips, Global Alliance, and grades 10 and 11 traveling to the Waterberg for post-exam partying (under teacher supervision of course) and service learning respectively (a nice contrast).

Selected students have already begun their Global Alliance exchange programs this semester. Grade 9 students from around the world will soon visit us in March and April for their part of the exchange.

Working with Elephant Human Relations Aid (EHRA), twelve secondary students will be traveling to Damaraland in March for service learning.  What an experience it will be building infrastructure to help a village protect their water from desert elephants.  Our students will also be sleeping in the wild and tracking desert elephant movements for research and conservation purposes.

While our students are doing service with EHRA in northern Namibia, another group of grade 10 students will be traveling to the Okavango Delta in pursuit of their Nature Guide certifications.  A second group of grade 8s and 9s will also travel to the Delta in May.  

Since we started running the Okavango Delta trip a few years ago, it has brought about some of the most unforgettable memories for our students in their high school careers.  It continues to epitomize what our program is all about - love of nature, leadership, and the application of classroom knowledge in the real world.

Finally, the grade 10s and 11s will head to Waterberg Plateau Park at the end of May and the beginning of June.  Grade 10s will be celebrating the end of MYP exams and the beginning of the DP.  Two weeks after the grade 10s visit, the grade 11s will be completing a CAS service project in an ongoing relationship with the Okatjikona Environmental Education Centre.  A student-led initiative, the grade 11s will be painting murals on newly built tables, adding to the long-term beauty of an important institution that provides environmental education to students from all across Namibia.  

Forrest Donoho