Our popular residential primary school trips get children involved and engaged in the outdoors, help develop confidence and independence.
As well as being filled with fun and safe outdoor activities your pupils will love, our primary school field trips let them enjoy adventures they will remember forever and more:
- Increase interaction with nature, building confidence and resilience through activities and challenges
- Encourage communication skills and develop social bonding with team building challenges
- Introduce measured risk taking to encourage independent thinking and personal achievement
- Tackle the growing indoor culture which is adding to the UK’s nature deficit disorder
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We’ve got a huge range of exciting activities available and each centre offers a specific selection of these depending on their environment.
Check out some of our example residentials below for inspiration. You can view the list of primary activities here, and our adventure activities here and create your own trip, or swap out any activities in the timetables below (subject to centre availability), so the choice is yours!
Our residentials are designed for KS2 pupils. If you’re looking for Early Years or KS1 opportunities, please click here.
We will work with you to create a trip to suit your requirements.
Primary Outdoor Learning Residential
Example Timetable*
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
| Day 1 | Late morning arrival with own packed lunch onsite. | Outdoor Team Challenges An exciting and challenging introduction to the concepts of working well together, using a wide variety of fun activities and puzzles. | Mammal Trapping Get up close to secretive small mammals. Have a go at setting and trapping your own small mammals on the centre grounds.. |
| Day 2 | Start the day by finding out what spent the night in the mammal traps and release them back into the wild. Then onto Orienteering Using key orienteering skills develop map reading, orientation and compass abilities, they will gain confidence in finding their way through unfamiliar terrain | Secret Ponds Delve into the unseen watery depths to discover the life teeming beneath the surface. Children will explore pond margins for signs of life and investigate the life support systems behind the abundance of pond invertebrates hidden from everyday view. | Music, Stories and Campfire Gather together around the fire, for an evening of entertainment, stories and music, with a hot chocolate. |
| Day 3 | Wilderness Bushcraft Pupils to discover what they would need to survive a night in the wild. They will work in teams to build their own shelters and have a go at lighting a fire using natural materials. | Eat packed lunch before departure from the centre. |
*These are example timetables – when creating your course you can change any of the activities for others that you may prefer.
Not all activities are available at all centres and some require an extra cost. Please enquire to find out the best option for you.
Primary Adventure Residential
Example Timetable*
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
| Day 1 | Late morning arrival with own packed lunch onsite | Team Challenges An exciting and challenging introduction to the concepts of working well together, using a wide variety of fun activities and puzzles designed to encourage problem solving and teamwork. | Night Walk Children will use their senses to explore the inspiring dusk environment, engaging in activities underneath big open skies. Working together, sharing an exploratory journey they will discover the wildlife that inhabits our nocturnal world. |
| Day 2 | Ghyll scrambling Canoeing instead of this to keep on-site? Children will step outside their comfort zones as they journey upstream and experience the flow of an impressive mountain river as it cuts its path through the wild environment. They will work together to scramble up the sides of waterfalls and jump into plunge pools. Journeying up the river they will encounter the unique habitat and wildlife of the gorge. | Low Ropes These low ropes activities are the perfect setting for children to develop flexibility, strength, control and balance in an exhilarating outdoor environment. Balance beams, rope bridges and scramble nets allow the whole group to keep active and try different ways to conquer the challenge. | Music, Stories and Campfire Gather together around the fire, for an evening of entertainment, stories and music. Tell your own story, make your own drum or just sit back and relax with a hot chocolate and enjoy the fire. |
| Day 3 | Wilderness Bushcraft Pupils to discover what they would need to survive a night in the wild. They will work in teams to build their own shelters and have a go at lighting a fire using natural materials. Pupils may also have a go at making elder beads, whittling and cooking some nettle tea to have around the fire. | Eat packed lunch onsite before departure from the centre. |
*These are example timetables – when creating your course you can change any of the activities for others that you may prefer.
Not all activities are available at all centres and some require an extra cost. Please enquire to find out the best option for you.