IMPACT 

Feedback from parents and teachers to date indicates that The Polar Academy gives young people better physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing with stronger connections with the wider community and are positively empowered for the rest of their lives. Specifically, they have reported:

• The kids are more engaged in class, have improved attendance and increased self-confidence.
• Regular demanding physical exercise starts at the selection weekend, leading to the kids feeling emotionally and physically well, positively empowered, and ready to lead the expedition in Greenland.
• They are no longer shy and uncertain
• They are willing to try out new things and new pursuits
• They mature into thoughtful young adults able to design their own path in life, many going onto university
• They develop leadership qualities and life skills that support them in the workplace environment

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The Polar Academy has been built on our connections in the exploration, education, research, medical world as well as the public sector.

We have wide and varied support and recognition from:

• The Explorers Club Great Britain and Ireland chapter
• Recognised for our work by the Scottish Government in their “Scotland’s Arctic Framework Policy”
• Access to a University lecturer in Extreme Sports Physiology and use of their environmental cold chamber. (We no longer have access to Napier)
• An NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Clinical Director
• Working with Greenlandic Government and developing a project specifically for Greenlandic Kids undertake a tailored version of The Polar Academy
• Working with a geologist who has created STEM field studies opportunities in both winter and summer for our young people
• artnering with Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews Universities and the Scott Polar Research Institute giving the young people the opportunity to visit and deliver lecturers on all field science undertaken.