Replace the Residential: Multi activity days! Workshop

WiseUp Team Building

Ditch the Residential – Keep the Adventure!

Looking to give your students an unforgettable, skill-building experience—without the sky high cost, travel logistics, or overnight stay? WiseUp’s 3–5 day on site adventure package delivers all the best bits of a traditional residential, right on your school grounds.

Over multiple action packed days, we bring the energy, excitement, and life skills directly to your students with a completely flexible programme. You can mix and match from our most popular events to create a personalised experience that suits your group perfectly. Choose from:

The Hub Challenge – up to 33 dynamic team tasks to boost communication and collaboration

Bushcraft – firelighting, shelter building, and outdoor survival skills that build resilience and independence

Mission Possible – our spy-themed primary adventure full of problem-solving and secret missions

PLUS exciting extras like Archery, Catapult Building, and our epic Assault Course

Each day focuses on core personal development areas such as resilience, teamwork, communication, and positive behaviour, while keeping students fully engaged, active, and motivated.

Whether you're planning a transition week, reward programme, or want to replace the traditional residential with something more affordable and inclusive, this is the perfect solution.

No travel needed

No overnights

No hassle – just high-impact, hands-on fun that leaves a lasting impression

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Where we travel to

We can visit your school in:

What activities are available during this school workshop?

The Hub Challenge
The Bushcraft Challenge
Mission Possible
Time Attack
Assault Course
Archery
Catapults
Orienteering

Which curriculum topics do we cater for?

Maths Workshop

Logic and Problem Solving Shape

Good problem solving skills are key in order to develop Maths and Numeracy knowledge. One way that our challenges help students Maths skills is to enforce the idea of breaking down problems into a series of smaller steps, and persevering to seek solutions.

The logical thinking needed to solve our challenges helps students to build on their ability to follow a line of enquiry through from a basic idea to completion.

Shapes also feature in several of our activities, both 2D and 3D. This allows students to showcase their geometry talents, and improve on them.

Citizenship Workshop

Personal development and resilience Team building

Click to read full text Our activities give students the chance to experience and evaluate different ways of working together to solve problems. By learning how to put ideas across in a reasonable and respectful way, pupils develop understanding together as a community team.

They will build on their social skills by listening to other people within their group, evaluating the problems they face together and then communicating ideas and responsible solutions.

Teams will also develop resilience as they encounter tasks and activities that they may not be able to solve easily. WiseUp Team Building's challenges encourage children and young people to pull together and solve problems in order to reach their goal.

PSHE Workshop

Teamwork and resilience

Click to read full text In School Activity Days provide learning opportunities and experiences to help children and young people develop and grow, both individually and as part of a team. Our activities help students develop the knowledge, skills and attributes that they need to confidently manage the challenges they may face in life by taking part in challenges in a safe, structured environment.

Outdoor Learning is brilliant for children and young people's mental health and emotional wellbeing. It is also the perfect space to teach them how to manage their own wellbeing by sharing the wonders of the natural world. Taking part in active and challenging tasks as part of a team builds resilience and self-esteem, along with the ability to adapt to transition and embrace change.

Relationship skills are a big feature of WiseUp Team Building's problem solving activity days. With students taking part in teams with people they may not normally associate with, they have to learn and develop ways of working together. The team's relationship dynamics play a huge role in how successful they are at completing the challenges. This means students must find techniques to communicate and operate as a functional unit, which are skills they will need in the wider world.

Bushcraft Workshop

Click to read full text WiseUp Team Building has successfully delivered our fun and engaing Bushcraft Challenge to hundreds of schools over the last 10 years. We have specifically designed levels for children in all Key Stages, and bring all of the equipment needed to Primary Schools and Secondary Schools across the UK.

Our qualified instructor teams teach basic survival skills to children in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 for a fun Primary School Bushcraft experience. also work in Secondary Schools, providing Outdoor Learning to students in Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4 and Key Stage 5. WiseUp travel to Sixth Form Colleges and Universities up and down the country teaching bushcraft and survival skills.

Fire Lighting, Water Purification, Shelter Building, Navigation and Wood Craft are just a few of the skills WiseUp Team Building are able to deliver on school sites. Our hands on sessions mean that children and young people get practical experience in an enjoyable way. They also may get a bit wet and muddy which, for many students, something that is out of their comfort zone!

The Bushcraft Challenge is great for Enrichment and Drop Down Days as pupils are having so much fun that they don't even realise they are learning. SEN students thrive on Bushcraft activities, which bring learning back to basics in a simple, yet effective way.

Careers Workshop

Great team work is absolutely crucial in any job, no matter what industry young people are looking to go into. Most employers rate team work skills in line with, or even above academic excellence. WiseUp days help students hone their core soft skills so that they are confidently and effectively able to work with a broad spectrum of different personality types.

Physical Education Workshop

Orienteering Archery

Click to read full text WiseUp Team Building’s In School Activity Days give students the opportunity to take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges within school grounds. Our engaging problem solving activities present intellectual and physical challenges to groups. This encourages them to trust each other and work as a team.

Children and young people will also have individual challenges to overcome within our activities. Tackling these with team mates around them for support helps students to become competent and feel confident in their abilities.

Students are able to evaluate themselves on the activity challenges, which allows them the chance to compare their performance on a task with previous ones to demonstrate improvement.

Basic movement skills such as throwing, catching, running and jumping are incorporated into many of WiseUp’s challenges alongside agility skills like co-ordination and balance, both individually and as part of a team with others.

Business Workshop

Enterprise and Leadership Finance and Accounts Marketing Operations Management

WiseUp's Apprentice Themed Days are an engaging and exciting way for older students to learn and practise key business skills. Accurate budgeting and financing is crucial, along with team and time management. Students will work together to create a full advertising campaign alongside their product, with details on target audience, USP and brand identity being discussed in a final presentation in front of the top boss!

Team Building

What size groups do we cater for?

Our multi activity days can be run onsite for 10 - 1000+ students. WiseUp will happily work with a small primary school class right through to whole school intake of a secondary school. We frequently bring our In School Activity Days to multiple schools in trusts and academies.

WiseUp Team Building has multiple instructor teams, which means that we can accommodate large or small groups anywhere in the UK.

Access for visitors with disabilities

All of our challenges are adaptable to incorporate those with disabilities. We pride ourselves on being the most inclusive provider in the UK. Please contact us to discuss your requirements and we will be happy to put together a bespoke programme to suit your student's needs.

Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Yes, we frequently take our activities into specialist SEN schools, and tailor the programme of the day accordingly to allow students additional time on certain sessions. By having a bespoke planning conversation with the lead teacher, our days are fully adaptable to suit all needs.

Who are WiseUp Team Building?

WiseUp Team Building is the multi award winning company that has established itself as the UK’s leading provider of school outreach activities. Our teams travel the length and breadth of the UK from our base in Kent. We provide fun, educational activities by bringing our equipment and our friendly team in our unique vehicles, directly to your school. We work with students of all ages from reception to sixth form and also run teacher inset days.

WiseUp Team Building recognises that every school and year group is different and as such have developed a diverse range of activities to meet these needs. Our ethos is to make outdoor learning accessible to all, providing a fully mobile service which significantly reduces the cost of running these events. From running Team Building days for over 700 students at an inner city secondary school to teaching Bushcraft to a class of 30 at a rural countryside primary, we can bring the fun to you!