Active Adventure offers a range of awesome on & off site experience to schools & youth groups who work with young people aged 7 plus in the form of their day and residential camp experiences.
Designed and delivered by our team of outdoor adventure activities specialists, we ensure that all young people attending have the best experience possible. We achieve this through our caring supervision of each individual, ensuring they access all activities fully.
As with all of our delivery teams, Active Adventure staff are specialists at creating the right environment for any group, relating to their age, ability and objective.
Active Adventure day and residential camps are situated in well-maintained camp and activity sites in the Bedfordshire countryside. All the sites we use offer appropriate facilities for the group and its programme, consisting of deep wooded areas, specified activity areas and open playing field and camping areas.
Day Camps
Day Camps run for approximately 5 hours per day (times can be flexible to suit individual groups), Monday to Friday all year round.
We offer six different types of day camps;
- The Matrix Challenge Day
An awesome day of team building and problem solving challenges; the first part of the MATRIX consists of the participants taking part in a series of tasks in which they can collect ‘time tokens’ ready for the MATRIX challenge. Part two is when the participants compete head to head playing the MATRIX board, moving from the start to the finish by getting moves for completing micro tasks set outaround the woods.
- The Wild Survival Challenge Day
Participants are given sessions in how to best survive in the wild, involving shelter building, camp cooking and fire building. They then have the task of discussing and deciding each others fate in ‘who will survive’ before completing our survival
orienteering course to collect their resources to enable them to build their team camps.
- Hot Shot Challenge Day
The day consists of participants taking part in a series of activities where they are required to ‘hit the target’ to take their group to victory. Activities include archery, rifle shooting, cross bows and giant sling shot. The ‘Hot Shot’ challenge day is a great way to test hand – eye coordination through some of our most popular activities.
- Monkey Mania Day
The ‘Monkey Mania’ day combines a wide range of activities where participants are
required to be off the ground as much as possible. Basic bouldering, low ropes and an up and over activity challenge course are some of the activities included in this exciting day where trust, communication and supporting others are core skills
being used.
- Mini Expedition Challenge Day
Our mini expedition takes a group from our base camp on a 15k light trek through urban and rural areas, whilst map reading and navigating themselves through the route they will stop along the way at designated points to attempt relevant tasks
such as emergency shelter erection, stretcher construction and expedition cooking.
- Adventure Strategy & Tactical Day
Groups take part in military role play to plan and carry out a series of different missions, where they will be challenged in leadership, organization and communication. Incorporating our ‘Battlefield LIVE’ state of the art gaming guns this high octane activity will provide participants with an experience like no other.
All day camps are extremely well received by all learning groups and require groups to use new levels of thinking, communication, interaction and organisational skills in unfamiliar surroundings to overcome a combination of mental and physically challenging tasks.
Active Adventure also offer specifically designed day camps for groups with their own ideas and needs that are perhaps not quite suited to our standard day camps. We are happy to discuss this further with group leaders.
We can deliver versions of our day camp on your school/college site in the form of workshops; please contact us for more information.
For Year 8 to 13 aged pupils Sport Support Services can include an ASDAN activities award, which is a nationally recognized accreditation.
Residential Camps
We provide bespoke Active Adventure residential camps to suit any learning group’s requirements.
The Active Adventure projects manager will discuss your individual needs including what you would like to have in your residential, who it is for and what the outcomes are. From this design, he will cost a suitable programme based on our already extremely successful and great value framework.
Other activities are also available including paintballing, swimming, quasar, bouncy castles and a whole range of sporting activities.
Active Adventure have successfully delivered a large number and a wide range of different Active Adventure residential camps for a diverse range of customer groups including colleague students with activities forming part of their assessment, upper and middle school enrichment trips and youth service holiday engagement camps.
Lenght of Stay
You can choose how long you want to make your stay, we offer between one and four nights.
Activity Options
When designing your residential you can choose from a whole range of activities; each day you can choose to do any of our unique day camps or speak to us about a bespoke programme; For the evenings we can offer our ‘wet and wild’ extreme team building challenge; a Battlefield LIVE tournament; songs and stories around the camp fire; sports activities; inflatable fun; night line and scavenger hunt.
Accommodation
We offer either a basic bunk house or camping or for the really adventurous we can set
up shelters in the woods. If you prefer you could even have a combination of the three options.
Menu
We offer a two choice menu for dinner each evening you stay with us; provide generous
packed lunch with a choice of sandwiches (not included for the first day) and a breakfast buffet each morning.
Promoting Independence
We promote independence throughout our residential camps; therefore, participants
are expected to look after their own personal items, living area and assist in the general upkeep of the communal areas.
Supervision
Active Adventure staff will provide appropriate levels of supervision throughout the whole of the camp, excluding specified free time and sleeping periods where we will pass first contact supervision over to the staff who accompany the group.
Site Safety
We conduct a full introduction briefing at the beginning of the camps, specifying the do’s and don’ts of the camp which will help keep the participants safe; the sites we select for our camps are fully risk assessed looking at all elements of the site includingsecure boundary fencing and gated access. Active Adventure staff remain on site at all times, even throughout period where we are not responsible for first contact supervision ensuring the staff are on hand if a problem should arise.
Personal Attention
When you have a residential camp with Active Adventure you will be the only residential group with us on site ensuring your group gets the best possible level of personal attention. We use our color coded tribal style grouping with each group getting their very own camp leader who will be allocated to them throughout the camp visit.
Accreditations
Active Adventure camps are registered with the British Association Holiday Activities (BAHA), who regularly inspect our sites and the provision we offer, ensuring they are of a high standard. We also hold a ‘Learning Outside the Classroom’ badge which identifies our camps meet the requirements expected for high quality and enriched learning expected for educational groups who visit.
H&S/Risk Assessments
Active Adventure have a complete health and safety policy, which incorporates venue and activity risk assessments and local operating procedures ensuring consistent high standards of safety for all participants. Copies of these are available upon request following booking.
Parents Information & Consents
We will provide a pre printed parent letter with detachable consent and
menu form for them to return. The letter provides all the information about coming along to our camps and is the perfect accompaniment to a your groups cover letter.
Learning Objectives & Outcomes
We focus all of our learning on 3main areas:
- Physical development: practical skills will be focused on within any particular programme. This could be sport specific or/and simply looking at general multi skills. This aspect is also greatly affected by the age, previous experience and ability level of the group and through the required outcomes as set out by the organisation they belong to (where appropriate).
- Social development: skills such as communication, teamwork, positive encouragement, winning and loosing honourably, self-confidence and self-belief. These are learning objectives that apply to all programmes, within each category and at all age ranges.
- Positive learning development: continued enjoyment and inclusion for all group members, ensuring they do not experience boredom, sense of failure or non-participation that may make them not want to participate in sporting activities in the future.
Behaviour Management & Positive Discipline
Active Adventure staff all adhere to a behavior management and positive discipline policy. It is our aim to focus on positive contribution and re channel negative behaviors through encouraging participants to want to achieve.
Addressing Challenge Through Support
We appreciate that with some of the activities we offer there is a mixture of new risks and challenges, we believe our camp leaders have the skills and experience to support participants to overcome all
apprehensions.
Active Adventure are currently working on designing a residential camp programme that can be delivered within school grounds and hope to offer this for the summer 2011 season. For more information please contact us.
We can incorporate a number of different accredited awards into an Active Adventure residential camp including Sports Leaders awards, ASDAN awards and AQA awards.
For further information please contact Chris Watson Office: 01234 340782 Mobile: 07595 229676 or Dan Yusuf Office: 01234 340782 Mobile: 07791 553343 |
