Central Idea: The choices we make, the challenges we face, and the way we work together shape our growth, resilience, and sense of responsibility.
Lines of Inquiry:
Age Group: PYP (5–11 years)
Venue: VAAMA Outdoor Learning & Adventure Facility (Bangalore outskirts)
Learning Style: Inquiry-led • Experiential • Social • Reflective • Ethics-integrated
Learner Profile Focus: Inquirer • Thinker • Risk-Taker • Communicator • Caring • Reflective
Includes: Pre-Tour • On-Tour • Post-Tour Learning Engagements
“VAAMA – The Boot Camp: An Inquiry into Self-Management, Teamwork, and Personal Responsibility” is an inquiry-driven experiential learning programme designed for all PYP students, using outdoor challenges, team-based activities, and adventure experiences as meaningful contexts to explore identity, resilience, cooperation, and responsible decision-making.
Through pre-tour reflection and goal setting, structured on-site challenges such as obstacle courses, team missions, tent pitching, and leadership rotation tasks, and guided reflection circles, students examine how personal choices, emotions, and teamwork influence learning, leadership, and group success.
The programme supports learners in understanding that self-discipline, cooperation, courage, care, and reflection are essential values when facing challenges. By working collaboratively, managing emotions during physical and social tasks, making ethical choices, and reflecting on their actions, students develop self-awareness, empathy, confidence, resilience, and a sense of responsibility toward themselves and others.
The programme is fully designed and facilitated by Crazy Holidays in collaboration with the VAAMA expert resource team, ensuring high-quality experiential delivery while remaining strongly aligned to IB PYP philosophy. Learning is intentionally structured across Pre-Tour, On-Tour, and Post-Tour engagements, enabling students to connect inquiry with experience and reflection with meaningful action.
Students develop Thinking, Social, Communication, and Self-Management skills as they participate in team challenges, manage emotions and effort during physical activities, communicate effectively with peers, reflect on leadership and responsibility, and apply learning to collaborative and real-life situations.
Students understand how personal identity is shaped by choices, emotions, and experiences; explore how teamwork and leadership influence group outcomes; practise self-management and ethical decision-making during challenging situations; develop empathy, cooperation, and respect for others; recognise responsibility toward self and community; and reflect on how actions impact personal growth and relationships.
Students identify personal strengths and areas for growth; demonstrate cooperation, empathy, and respectful behaviour; manage emotions and effort during challenges; communicate effectively within teams; make fair and responsible choices; connect values to actions through reflection; and apply self-management, teamwork, and responsibility in everyday school and community contexts.
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