Buzz Active Eastbourne School Trip

Eastbourne BN22 7LD

At Buzz Active Eastbourne we can get the students out on the water enjoying sailing, windsurfing ans paddle sport activities with our team of Royal Yachting Association qualified instructors and British Canoeing qualified paddle sport coaches.

Our RYA and BC programmes are designed to develop young people through water sport. In line with national curriculum core values our programmes are more than just a water sport!

Teacher Checklist

Risk Assessments
Inspection Visits
Free Places for Teachers
Resource Packs
AALA Licence
Institute of Outdoor Learning
RYA Centre

What activities are available during educational visits?

Teaching more than just a sport!
It’s been long known that sports help to develop character in children and young people. Sports are challenging and exciting activities that put people in situations where they need to solve problems, as a result developing skills which can be easily transferred to everyday life .

The Royal Yachting Association (national governing body for sailing and windsurfing) has recently done a lot of research into the character building attributes that children and young people can build on through sport.

1. Teamwork
- Can communicate well with others
- Capacity to see the world from someone else’s perspective
2. Determination
- Sticks with challenging situations
- Bounces back after set-backs
3. Communication
- Able to listen carefully and offer an opinion
- Can match language to audience
4. Independence
- Can make a decision
- Happy to ask for help or advice as required
5. Confidence
- Self-belief
- Happy to learn from mistakes
6. Creativity
- Ability to have a good idea when needed
- Can see how different experiences can be connected

This gives just an idea of how valuable sports can be; pairing the above with our curriculum linked sessions below, we believe will help make your children and young people more successful in their academic studies as well as more rounded individuals.
We can supplement the class room lessons your students will be receiving by getting them outside the classroom, or on the water and experiencing a lot of what they are learning about in class. Please see below for an idea of some of the topics we can assist with during our sessions and an example session plan.

Key Stage 2 – Science:
- Recognising that some mechanisms, including leavers, pulleys and gears allow a smaller force to have a greater effect
- Identifying the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction that act between moving surfaces
- Pupils observe and talk about changes in weather and seasons
Key Stage 3 – Science:
- Forces as pushes or pulls, arising from the interaction between objects
- Simple machines give bigger force at the expense of smaller movement
- Waves on water as undulations which travel through water with transverse motion
- Balanced and unbalanced forces – opposing forces and equilibrium
- Food as fuel - calculations of energy requirements in a healthy daily diet.

Key Stage 2 – Physical Education:
- Water Safety
- Compare performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best
- Take part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team

Key Stage 2 – Maths:
- Describing position, direction and movement. Including whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns
- Identify right angles, recognise that two right angles make a half-turn, three make three quarters of a turn and four a complete turn. Identifying whether angles are greater than or less than a right angle
- Identifying: Angles at a point and one whole turn (360). Angles at a point on a straight line and half a turn (180). Other multiples of 90

Key Stage 3 – Design and Technology:
- Pupils learn how to take risks, becoming resourceful, innovative, enterprising and capable citizens
- Understand and use the properties of materials and the performance of structural elements to achieve functioning solutions

Key Stage 2 – English:
- Select and use appropriate registers for effective communication
- Give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes
- Use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas
- Ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
- Maintain attention and participation actively in collaborative conversations. Staying in topic and initiating and responding

Key Stage 3 – Geography:
- Understand key processes in weather, climate, wave action and longshore drift.

Which curriculum topics do we cater for?

Watersports School Trip Click to expand

SUP Stand Up Paddleboarding Sailing Kayaking Raft Building Windsurfing Power Boating

Primary age/ KS2
We are able to run our water based activities with a link to what you are teaching in the classroom.
Our location is perfect to link our sessions with your science lessons. Whether that is on weather and the seasons, exploring the outdoors while learning about predators and prey, or covering the mechanisms and forces used in sailing. We can link English lessons by discussing ideas, hypothesizing and understanding through speculating.
We can run sailing and windsurfing sessions learning angles, position, direction and movement of the craft focusing on math. We also have the perfect location for geography classes on erosion, waterways and beaches seen from the water and use of maps and compasses on land and at sea.
Our sessions cover your PE curriculum for outdoor and adventurous activities as well as help develop student’s flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance. Water safety is a huge part of all of our activities.

Secondary school/ KS3 & KS4
We have the perfect location to give a memorable trip for your students to assist with what you are teaching them in the classroom.
A great way for your students to experience our geographical features could be to sail along the beautiful coastline and look at erosion or discuss the weather patterns and processes on the day. We can also link our sessions to your design technology studies with understanding the use and properties of materials and the performance of structural elements to achieve functioning solutions.
Our sessions cover your PE curriculum for taking part in an outdoor and adventurous activities and improving on student’s technique and performance in competitive sports.
We then also cover GCSE PE curriculum.

Enrichment/ induction/ team development days
These days are designed to help develop a number of outcomes of your choosing, these can include; self-awareness, confidence, communication, leadership, teamwork, involvement and we can achieve these outcomes through all of our activities. A perfect trip for your students to get to know each other and build their confidence!
GCSE PE/ BTEC
Our coaches are capable of teaching GCSE Kayaking from the AQA and Edexcel exam boards and practical sessions for sport and public services BTEC Level 2, 3 and 4.

Accredited Sailing and Windsurfing courses
We can run Royal Yachting Association personal performance awards. The first basic level can be run over two days or several spread out. These are perfect to link in to PE curriculum or developing student’s confidence, coordination and fitness. As well as these fantastic outcomes, the students could come away with a Royal Yachting Association certificate that could further their future in sailing.

SEN and Disabilities
At Buzz we strive to cater for any and every person. With our experienced instructors we can run sessions and adapt them according to the needs of your group.

Sports Centre
Sailing Kayaking

What size groups do we cater for?

6 - 40. if you have a larger group please contact us to see if we can accommodate you at our other centres.

On-site classroom facilities?

Limited, but yes we have a classroom space.

Is there first aid on site?

All our staff are first aid qualified

Access for visitors with disabilities

We have DDS compliant facilities, and some limited disability capacity with sailing, windsurfing and kayaking on our boating lake. Please contact us to discuss your needs.

Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

Yes We certainly can. Please use the form below to let us know your group's specific SEN requirements and we will get back to you with more information on how we can tailor our learning experience for your children.

Who are Buzz Active?

Buzz Eastbourne is an RYA (Royal Yachting Association) recognized training center, that’s open to everyone.

The center offers activity sessions, day trips,courses and tuition in sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, power boating, raft building and stand up paddle boarding (SUP). Why not combine all our offered activities into one action packed day trip?

We are specialist in catering for schools and groups of all abilities and backgrounds, including those with special needs. We can assist in meeting the schools needs in developing young people through outdoor sport.

Our group activity packages will give students of all ages the best introduction to sailing, windsurfing and paddle sport. With our sheltered boating lake we can get afloat in a safe and contained environment. If weather permits we can use the sea in Eastbourne bay and take students for an authentic open sea experience.