Active Adventure provide a range of bespoke Adventure Clubs for schools, both during and after school time. These offer a wide variety of outdoor experiential activities, providing children of all ages, authentic, meaningful, and enjoyable experiences in a range of natural environments.
There are no minimum facilities required, as all Active Adventures Clubs are mobile and transport all resource to your school. So when you book, we arrive onsite, set up, run your session, and pack up. Providing you a simple no fuss, fun and rich outdoor learning experience.
So why not contact us to discuss what we can do for your school.
This features a variety of different challenges looking to improve a group’s ability to work together, apply strategy, use common sense, and teamwork to complete an objective. These are tailored to your specific objectives for the group, their ages and ability.
England’s most popular water sport. Obviously this can only be done in areas with either access to a swimming pool or suitable river/canal/etc. However we can provide transport to and from your location and all equipment and safety gear. The children can either be coached in paddle techniques and even receive accredited certificates for their efforts or they can have a series of introductory sessions containing games and activities looking to give them the basics of the sport.
If you have access to water, be it a pool, river, or lake, then Raft Building is a great choice for the more adventurous groups. Here participants build, from scratch, a raft that must support their team across a body of water without sinking.
This is an exceptionally popular activity for any age range! Participants are involved in a professional first aid course, with outdoor based scenarios. Dependant on the needs of the groups, a more formal full first aid course is available, or specifically select aspects that are more relevant to your children. All courses are full of hands on scenarios, with role playing, and real life situations making the learning more realistic.
From whittling a whistle, to carving a spoon and everything in between. Green Wood Working is a fantastic activity if you are exploring mindfulness through engaging with the natural world. Participants, through careful progression and training, are able to use a variety of tools to create their masterpiece.
Target Shooting requires great skill and co-ordination, through a gradual process of honing skills and technique. Using air soft rifles, making it safe, portable and great fun! Accessible to many participants, groups will learn; range rules, rifle safety, handling techniques, and develop fine motor skills.
This is a brilliant mix of firefighting skills, as well as planning and preparing nutritious meals. Cooking over open fires is exceptionally rewarding which produces delicious outcomes. Some examples of meals, dependant on time available, could be; lentil stew, popcorn, pancakes, camp damper, and sweet bread.
This is the ultimate fun-filled technology and design challenge. Participants have the opportunity to bid in a blind auction for the resources required for the construction of a giant Catapult. Then they must plan, prepare, design and build their device for the final test, a competition in which group can throw a 1kg weight the furthest.
If your school does in fact have a wooded area, then a range of environment based activities can be run. All have a focus on sustainability, exploring the micro world of plants and animals, and the use of the outdoors as a creative space for expression.
