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Year 1 & 2’s enjoy Ennerdale

POSTED: 26th April 2012 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

This week headed over to Low Gillerthwaite Field Centre in Ennderdale and ran an environmental and team building day for each class. Over the 4 days all the Year 1 & 2’s from St Gregory and St Patricks Primary School in groups of 36 each day travelled from Whitehaven into Ennerdale for there day of fun and learning.
They started the day after an introduction...

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Staff Day Out

POSTED: 22nd July 2011 BY: Mark
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play

What a way to unwind after a long year. We canoed out to Peal Island with the teachers from Lindale and Marton School and had a BBQ after some fun and challenge along the way. Highlights of the afternoon / evening were jumping off the island into the lake and having a good swim about, stories over the BBQ with a small glass, then more fun as we swam under the boats and...

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Canoeing on Coniston with Sir John Barrow

POSTED: 19th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Sir John Barrow School do a great job at running their own school residential course each year. Their staff are well experienced and some qualified to a level that they are happy to run some of the activities that the young people do when they are away with them.

This year we went along to help out with the canoeing day. John Kettle brought our set of Open Canoes over...

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SPA Training

POSTED: 16th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Technical Courses

This weekend Mike Margeson and Dan Robinson 2 MIC’s from Real Adventure ran an SPA Training Course.

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River Study

POSTED: 15th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Today we picked up all the year 5 & 6 from Lindale in Marton school and after an initial classroom session to teach them the basics and hand out wellies and waterproofs we headed up to the Walna Scar Road area nr Coniston and complete a full study of the river investigating how a river changes as it moves downstream. From sauce to mature river the team measured the...

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St Christopher’s LSP

POSTED: 8th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Based at Great Tower Scout Camp on Windermere 48 pupils from St Christopher’s School spent eight days and seven nights exploring the Lake District. Walking up mountains, crawling underneath them, scrambling up ghylls, climbing up the rock, abseiling down, paddling on the lake and all whilst building personal confidence and teamwork skills…. So much to fit in!...

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Flookburgh Primary

POSTED: 30th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Based at Low Gillerthwaite the group of twenty two young people spent four days exploring, team building and having fun! Haycock, Red Pike and High Stile we some of the fells they found themselves at the top of… not to mention a day spent completing team building initiatives and an evening spent night swimming and wading up the river.

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Barrow Island Climbing Day

POSTED: 29th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Family & Group Adventures, Young People

Twenty five young people from Barrow Island spent the morning or afternoon climbing in the south lakes as part of their residential based at Fisher Ground Campsite. Real Adventure had a brilliant day out supporting the residential organised by Barrow Island Primary School.

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Fitness Boot Camp

POSTED: 25th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Family & Group Adventures

A great day was had rock climbing and ghyll scrambling above Ullswater. Real Adventure provided an instructor to support the technical aspects of the boot camp, while the group was self sufficient at the Bury Jubilee Hut at the base of Helvellyn.

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Old Hutton Primary

POSTED: 25th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Young people from Old Hutton Primary spent the first day of their residential finding their way to camp on a self led walk, followed by cooking on trangiers and setting up tents in the evening. Based at Low Gillerthwaite for the rest of the four days the 24 pupils went mountain walking, ghyll scrambling, canoeing, participated in team building initiatives and were...

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