North Wales Bushcraft Residential

Our site in North Wales is on a 20 acre glamping site called 'The Forge'. We can provide luxury tent accommodation for groups up to 20 people and can also provide tented accommodation for up to 80. Our teaching space is Iron Age hill fort which is on site so we can offer a truly immersive experience in a relaxed and restorative environment. We work with you to tailor each experience to your outcomes so every visit is unique. All sessions can be linked to your curriculum.

Citizenship

Curriculum topics available: Personal development and resilience, Team building.

The majority of our activities are designed for groups to work collaboratively so everyone is included and feels valued. All our instructors have this as a core to their roles and responsibilities.

Archaeology

Having an Iron Age hill fort on site which has been a site for an archaeological dig in the past is a massive aid in bringing history to life. Using artefacts found on site we can bring history to life through practical, hands on activities to show how our ancestors would have lived.

Physical Education

All our activities encourage everyone to be physically actively active in a fun, safe environment. For example - This could be through moving around in the woods looking for firewood, building natural shelters or through our stalking and tracking games.

PSHE

Curriculum topics available: Healthy Living, Healthy eating, Teamwork and resilience.

We constantly encourage students to be challenged intellectually and physically with our activities through fun problem solving challenges. We encourage them to be innovative in how they solve the challenges and allow them to reflect on the solutions in a positive way. We encourage health eating and pride ourselves on providing the highest quality fresh local food available and making sure everyone has a full belly so they are able to get the best out of themselves.

Wildlife

There is no better place to learn about wildlife and the natural world. Being a part of nature and immersing yourself in the natural world gives you a better understanding about how it all works together. All our staff are passionate about the natural world and this comes over in all our work.

Bushcraft

Bushcraft is at our core. All our staff are passionate, highly skilled instructors who deliver fun, interactive, hands on sessions and the students will leave with real life practical skills. These sessions could include knife skills to make tent pegs, cordage and knot work and campfire cooking.

Prehistory

Curriculum topics available: Iron Age, Stone Age.

Using our Iron Age hill fort as an educational tool we can bring prehistory to life giving then students a real understanding of how or ancestors would have lived.

Biology

Curriculum topics available: Plants, Animals including humans, Living things and habitats, Ecology and environment, Life Cycles, Minibeasts, Habitats.

Biology is steeped in everything we do and our instructors can deliver sessions that really help to bring the world around us to life. This could be through looking at which plants are edible, learning about how to prepare and butcher small game and through observing changes in the seasons.

Human Geography

Curriculum topics available: Natural resources.

We can deliver sessions that bring this subject to life. The natural resources around us are so important and how we use and preserve these are at our core.

Physical Geography

Curriculum topics available: Environment.

Understanding the environment and the impact we have on it is a theme throughout or programmes. Our site is off grid and offers pupils the chance to see renewable energy and water-saving technology in action as well as how we recycle an use compost waste to feed our new woodland.

Environmental Geography

Curriculum topics available: Conservation.

As part of our sessions we can bring in practical conservation tasks such as habitat management, coppicing, tree planting to name but a few. These give hands on, practical experiences as to how we can protect and enhance our environment.

Fieldstudies

We can help deliver field studies into many different subjects to help your school and students attain their goals. We can work with you to tailor field studies to align with your current curriculum and teach pupils the key principles and process steps to conduct field studies accurately and effectively.

Bushcraft is at our core and is an expansive subject. Through our core sessions there is endless room for further study. We can run really simple sessions right through to in-depth study based sessions so your group can get what you want out of the experience.
These are a list of most of the key subjects we cover but it is not exhaustive.
Fire - Introductory fire lighting (tinder, kindling and fire lighting using sparks), different ignition methods, different fire lays and their uses, friction fire lighting (rubbing sticks together), how to extinguish a fire properly, stone age fire lighting.
Tool use - Safe use of a knife and saw through carving (tent pegs, pot hangers, small animal traps, spoons, cutlery and atl atls to name a few), axes for felling and splitting, saws and coppicing and pruning.
Water - Finding, collecting, filtering and purifying, signs of water in nature, digging gypsy wells, solar stills, making simple filters, ways to purify
Navigation - night navigation, natural navigation, how to use a compass, orienteering
Shelters - When and where to make a shelter, natural leaf mould shelters for one, two or many people, tarps and knots
Outdoor cooking - Bannock bread making, twist bread making, small game butchery and cooking, fish butchery and cooking, deer butchery and cooking, pancakes over the fire, pizzas over the fire
Stalking and tracking - Animal tracks and signs, stalking and stealth games, camouflage
Simple tripod pot hangers
Rope making from plants
Foraging
Plant identification and their uses
Archery
Air rifle practice
Night team building games
Axe throwing
Tree planting
Problem solving games
Conservation tasks
Wildlife surveying
Habitat management plans
Storytelling

We can work with small groups of 10 students up to 80 pupils for half day activities up to 4 night residential packages.

Yes

All our instructors are fully trained in outdoor first aid which we review annually.

We want to make our site as inclusive as possible so please speak to us and we will make sure everyone can be included.

Yes

We can also cater for any dietary requirements and ensure that any different requirements are not an impediment for pupils engaging in all of the activities.