Week Without Walls

Borderlands has been devising and running Week Without Walls programs for International Schools who are part of the American Curriculum for over 15 years. We embrace the philosophy that that these experiences challenge students physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually and helps them realise their potential. By offering authentic, outside-the-classroom experiences, these programs take students outside their usual comfort zones by exposing them to new situations in a totally different cultural environment. Our Week Without Walls can provide experiential learning at its best: it helps students grow and develop team building and leadership skills, travel to locations outside the school, experience unfamiliar cultures and participate in activity based programs that include an important community service with local schools. It’s impossible to underestimate the impact that these service projects have on students – both the overseas students and students from the local schools – as they meet, interact and gain an appreciation and better understanding of how others live their lives.  

Our Week Without Walls programs encourages problem solving, creative and lateral thinking and coping skills both as individuals and as part of the team. It fosters self esteem, independence and develops a global and environmental awareness amongst students.

Week Without Walls is experiential learning at its best: it helps students grow and develop in an exciting and safe environment, offering an opportunity to build friendships, develop team building and leadership skills, and travel to locations outside the school. Week Without Walls encourages problem-solving, creative thinking and coping skills both as individuals as as part of a team, fosters self-esteem, independence and develops a global and environmental awareness amongst students.

We embrace the philosophy that Week Without Walls challenges students physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We hope to inspire greater self awareness and self confidence. By offering authentic, outside-the-classroom experiences, we take students outside their comfort zones by exposing them to new situations in a totally different cultural environment.