Conway Centres Anglesey School Trip
Edsential
Residential Trip Residentials Wales
With over 48 years’ experience in delivering activities to young people our problem-solving approach and reflective style of teaching allows learners to become independent enquirers, creative thinkers, reflective learners and team players. We are dedicated, experienced and enthusiastic education professionals who have the ability to differentiate, plan bespoke programmes and deliver high quality teaching.
Courses at our Anglesey centre are wide ranging and can provide whole school curriculum opportunities to enable life-long learning.
Our locations and facilities enable us to deliver a very broad array of courses and our site offers a secure location, being self contained within National Trust parkland.
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What activities are available during educational visits?
Multi Outdoor Activities for example*:
• Canoeing, Kayaking
• Stand-up Paddleboard, Surfing, Body Boarding
• Raft Building
• Dinghy Sail, Keel Boat Sail & Powerboat
• Mountain Biking,
• Rock Climbing, Abseiling, Bouldering, Zip Wire
• Mountaineering, Low/High Level Ropes, Via Ferrata
• Mining, Orienteering
• Gorge, Sea Level Traversing
• Den Building, Bush Craft
• Pond Study, Habitat Walk, Environmental Art
• Geography & Biology Field Studies,
• Duke of Edinburgh provision & expedition
• Year 7 and Year 12 induction
Creative & Performing Arts*:
• Visual Art
• Drama, Dance
• Music, Storytelling
• Raising Attainment Courses in Arts & PE, GCSE, A-Level & Degree level
• Arts Education in a Multi-Cultural Society
The centre has a wide variety of classrooms and workshops, these can be used by the school if you wish to deliver some teaching on site, such as revision sessions as part of the residential experience.
*Please note this list is not exhaustive
• Canoeing, Kayaking
• Stand-up Paddleboard, Surfing, Body Boarding
• Raft Building
• Dinghy Sail, Keel Boat Sail & Powerboat
• Mountain Biking,
• Rock Climbing, Abseiling, Bouldering, Zip Wire
• Mountaineering, Low/High Level Ropes, Via Ferrata
• Mining, Orienteering
• Gorge, Sea Level Traversing
• Den Building, Bush Craft
• Pond Study, Habitat Walk, Environmental Art
• Geography & Biology Field Studies,
• Duke of Edinburgh provision & expedition
• Year 7 and Year 12 induction
Creative & Performing Arts*:
• Visual Art
• Drama, Dance
• Music, Storytelling
• Raising Attainment Courses in Arts & PE, GCSE, A-Level & Degree level
• Arts Education in a Multi-Cultural Society
The centre has a wide variety of classrooms and workshops, these can be used by the school if you wish to deliver some teaching on site, such as revision sessions as part of the residential experience.
*Please note this list is not exhaustive
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
English School Trip
Shakespeare Creative writing Storytelling
We offer high quality education aimed at encouraging creativity, providing opportunity & raising attainment.
Performing Arts School Trip
Based at our Conway Centres: Anglesey we have an excellent range of facilities for both the Performing and Visual Arts. We offer high quality education aimed at encouraging creativity, providing opportunity & raising attainment. Our residential trips can be tailored to suit your schools needs and curriculum. We offer immersive cultural residentials and exam support courses in The Arts.
Dance School Trip Click to expand
Based at our Conway Centres: Anglesey we have an excellent range of facilities for both the Performing and Visual Arts. We offer high quality education aimed at encouraging creativity, providing opportunity & raising attainment. . Our residential trips can be tailored to suit your schools needs and curriculum. We offer immersive cultural residentials and exam support courses in The Arts.
Event: GCSE Dance
The Key Stage 4 weekend is an intensive and exciting 3-day course incorporating relevant sessions in choreography and technique. The weekend aims to give students an awareness of how they need to perform for their relevant assessments and also to inspire them to achieve.
Both our fully qualified teaching staff and our associate artists have a significant breadth of specialist experience which allows them to engage students and inspire them to achieve to the best of their ability. Our event allows for pupils to network and meet new like-minded pupils which can increase future development as well as professional development for staff.
Music School Trip Click to expand
Composing Music
Based at our Conway Centres: Anglesey we have an excellent range of facilities for both the Performing and Visual Arts. We offer high quality education aimed at encouraging creativity, providing opportunity & raising attainment. . Our residential trips can be tailored to suit your schools needs and curriculum. We offer immersive cultural residentials and exam support courses in The Arts.
Event: GCSE Music | 28th – 30th January 2022
Students will focus on key learning outcomes to develop their practical work and subject knowledge in composing, performing, listening and appraising. Under guidance and direction of practising musicians / leading music tutors, students will use both contemporary and traditional techniques to develop compositions, solo and group performances, and critical and contextual reference will be used to focus activities and ideas.
Both our fully qualified teaching staff and our associate artists have a significant breadth of specialist experience which allows them to engage students and inspire them to achieve to the best of their ability.
Physical Education School Trip
Climbing Canoeing Orienteering Archery Sailing Kayaking High Ropes
Activities are integrated into the stunning woodland, including high and low ropes courses, zipwire, mountain bike track and a real quarry used for via ferrata and abseiling. We can tailor all residential trips to suit your schools needs and curriculum, get in touch to find out more.
Art School Trip
Based at our Conway Centres: Anglesey we have an excellent range of facilities for both the Performing and Visual Arts. We offer high quality education aimed at encouraging creativity, providing opportunity & raising attainment. Our residential trips can be tailored to suit your schools needs and curriculum. We offer immersive cultural residentials and exam support courses in The Arts. Get in touch to find out more.
Wildlife School Trip Click to expand
Programme: Living things and their habitats
A unique course of Arts activities linked to Living things and their habitats and Under the sea.
Home to native Red Squirrels, as well as various other wildlife, the beautiful Conway Centre, Anglesey is perfect for learning about living things in their habitat. Based close to water, this visit enables students to take part in various water activities, to not only learn but also build self-confidence and try new activities.
Our aim is to foster a sense of achievement where as well as learning about the topic we inspire individuals, empower minds, and define futures through The Arts and develop young people to achieve their potential, introducing them to potential lifelong interest in Art, Drama and Music.
Bushcraft School Trip Click to expand
The aim is to help equip young people with the physical and mental skills to survive in the natural modern world. Each session aims to encourage young people to embrace nature, whilst cooperating and communicating with others. During the session groups may be challenged to make a shelter suitable to protect from different elements as well as prepare and light a fire suitable to make a hot drink or cook bread on it. Tutors will always aim to progress the skills the pupils come with, and where suitable give responsibility of using wood craft knives to aid their fire making. If schools have been involved with forest schools, then this is a brilliant activity to develop and challenge the skills they have in a new environment.
In the natural surroundings we use areas of the woodland to test survival skills and learn how to live using only the bare essentials. We have certain areas dedicated to bush craft and survival which allows for the woodland to be sustainably maintained.
Watersports School Trip
SUP Stand Up Paddleboarding Sailing Kayaking Canoeing Raft Building Power Boating
All watersports courses have access to the Menai Strait via our private dock, providing a sheltered area for introductory sessions before venturing out into the ‘swellies’.
The varied conditions found on the Strait make it suitable for all levels of students from beginner to expert.
Biology School Trip Click to expand
Living things and habitats Habitats Life Sciences Forest School
Programme: Living things and their habitats
A unique course of Arts activities linked to Living things and their habitats and Under the sea.
Home to native Red Squirrels, as well as various other wildlife, the beautiful Conway Centre, Anglesey is perfect for learning about living things in their habitat. Based close to water, this visit enables students to take part in various water activities, to not only learn but also build self-confidence and try new activities.
Our aim is to foster a sense of achievement where as well as learning about the topic we inspire individuals, empower minds, and define futures through The Arts and develop young people to achieve their potential, introducing them to potential lifelong interest in Art, Drama and Music.
Environmental Geography School Trip Click to expand
Materials and recycling Plastic pollution Extreme Weather Rainforest Sustainable living Global warming Renewable Energy Climate change Conservation
Programme: Environmental Awareness Adventure
A unique combination of adventure activities and environmental investigation that gives students the theory into the environments we live in and how we can contribute to protecting the natural World around us. The course can be tailored to meet the needs of the science and geography Curriculum/Syllabus or can be used to enrich the overall education of pupils.
We use the amazing North Wales natural environment and adventure activities to challenge, motivate and develop pupils’ understanding. We will use an enquiry-based approach to investigate the different environments. Proposing a question; Formulating the hypotheses; Designing the experiment or fieldwork; Making observations; Interpreting the data and Proposing conclusions
Our aim is to bring students together outside of their normal environment and bring them into a new natural world, where they feel comfortable in nature, understand how environments are created and the effect our individual contribution has on the environment around you
Event: Earth Summit
Available throughout February
Using the natural beauty of the landscape surrounding in our residential centres, this residential enables learners to understand how human actions have consequences for our planet. Tackling issues like climate change, consumables / waste and conservation through art, dance, drama and music workshops. With Q&A’s from leading practitioners, activities will develop pupil knowledge and understanding of sustainability through positive action.
This course is Ideal for Upper Key Stage 2 and Lower Key Stage 3 learners. This course is a great way to reconnect students halfway through the academic year, all whilst learning further about our planet.
Fieldstudies School Trip
Located by the Menai Strait and surrounded by woodlands we are a perfect location to support with field studies. We can tailor all residential trips to suit your schools needs and curriculum, get in touch to find out more.
Local History School Trip Click to expand
Programme: Castles
Anglesey | Tattenhall
A unique course of Arts activities , Castle visits to learn about the history of Castles and the myths & legends behind them.
As you make your way to our Conway Centre, Anglesey, or Tattenhall, Cheshire, you will stop at a local castle to capture photos for the art activities over your visit. The weekend will consist of Music, Drama and Art to keep your students excited and interested, all whilst meeting requirements of the national curriculum.
Our Aim is to improve your students understanding of Castles by combining this with arts to broaden their knowledge in a fun way. All whilst trying new & exciting activities which will not only boost self-confidence but also create memories that will last forever
We can tailor all residential trips to suit your schools needs and curriculum, get in touch to find out more.
Accommodation Only
Forest School
What size groups do we cater for?
We have 420 beds on site, including staff rooms, split between 5 self contained buildings. The main dormitory block has 230 student beds and can cater for a whole year group. Other buildings can facilitate 19 (Lafan), 40 (Penmon), 34 (Hafod) and 50 (Gogarth) students each.
On-site classroom facilities?
A huge array of classrooms, laboratories, art studios and performances spaces. The latter includes two large Halls, one of which has a formal stage.
Is there first aid on site?
Yes - over 50 of our staff are qualified.
Access for visitors with disabilities
Yes. Our main building is fully accessible and there is access to stair lifts. Two of our smaller buildings have disabled access and appropriate bathroom facilities.
We also have a self contained holiday home, Mountain Lodge, on site for families with children who have specific needs.
We also have a self contained holiday home, Mountain Lodge, on site for families with children who have specific needs.
Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)
Yes, we run a wide range of courses with children who have Special Educational Needs.
Who are Edsential?
The Conway Centres are led by staff who are highly qualified long term educators who can differentiate between pupils, inspire, motivate and help raise aspirations.
The extensive grounds and location make it an ideal base to participate in a wide range of on and off site outdoor and adventurous activities. It's within a short travelling distance of the mountains and is adjacent to the sea, making water activities very accessible and suitably challenging.
Anglesey has an excellent range of facilities for the Creative and Performing Arts and specialises in supporting the curriculum in schools, both at primary and secondary levels.
The unique accommodation which holds 400+ can cater for a whole secondary year group in the main dormitory block, along side smaller groups in self contained buildings.
Edsential is a Community Interest Company, all profits are reinvested in to services for children.
Reviews from Schools..
★★★★★
"We have taken Year 6 children on residentials for the past 12 years and can honestly say we have never been to a better place. The instructors were incredibly patient and pushed the children to achieve things they never thought they could. The accomodation was perfect for staff and children and the food provided was very nice. The range of activities on offer ensured there was something for everyone. "
Our Lady and St Edwards Primary School
★★★★★
"I have been coming to Conway with different schools for the last 9 years. Having visited most other providers within a 50 mile radius, I can honestly say that Conway is the best residential outdoor activity experience I have ever had. The quality and variety of activities coupled with highly experienced, caring and nuturing instructors and staff means that our children grow and develop in ways that is not possible in the classroom. I cannot recommendly the centre highly enough and look forward to returning for many, many years!"
St Werburgh's & St Columba's Catholic Primary School
★★★★★
"We have been coming for a Y5 outdoor and adventurous residential visit since the school opened in 2004. I booked the trip before ordering tables, books or recruiting teachers - it is such an essential part of the school's calendar.
The September trip marks pupil's induction into upper Key Stage 2. Teaching is outstanding, resulting in pupils' independence, listening and following instructions practically, collaboration, respect for one another and logical thinking all are enhanced and retained back in school - in and outside the classroom. "
Kingsmead Primary School
★★★★★
"I have participated on both GCSE and A-Level courses for over 15 years at the Conway Centre which in itself gives a reflection of how highly I regard the experience. The program has exceptionally high standards and aims to provide students with the best possible outcomes to help enrich their portfolios of work.For both staff and students it has proved an enduring and invaluable experience and one the I look forward to attending every year. tamzin harris"
Bishop Heber High School
★★★★★
"I've been taking GCSE and A Level Art students to the centre for ten years. The Art courses are very intensive and student outcomes add real value to individual coursework portfolios. To tell you the truth I keep taking groups because it's my best CPD training and has had a significant impacted on my own knowledge and practise. The self contained centre has everything you need for a complete and fulfilling residential experience, plus it's set in the picturesque landscape of the Menai Straits."
Tytherington School
★★★★★
"I have worked with the Conway Centre for 17 years taking children from two schools. The quality of the residential experience for the children is excellent. The facilities, activities and staff are consistently at a high level, ensuring that every child has a memorable and valuable experience."
Oldfield Primary SchoolSpecial rates for schools
outside of peak season
Last-minute June/July 2025 dates available!
Are you looking for a last-minute residential for summer 2025?
We have limited dates available for June and July 2025 for schools to enjoy a residential full of true adventure experiences.
Get in touch to see how we can support your school...
Teacher Checklist
Risk Assessments Inspection Visits Resource Packs LOtC Quality Badge AALA Licence Institute of Outdoor Learning Adventure Mark Duke of Edinburgh Award Adventure Activity Associates RYA Centre Paddle UK Centre
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