Bushcraft Courses for Schools

Bushcraft, Wilderness and Survival Lessons

Bushcraft is an exciting and engaging way for UK school children to learn about the natural world and develop important outdoor skills.

Quite a few of the outdoor adventure companies we work with have started adding bushcraft options to their school trip itineraries. Together with specialist bushcraft companies, they are making a great case for the teaching of sustainability and nature awareness courses.

From constructing simple shelters using only natural materials found in the local environment, to starting fires without matches or lighters, and even foraging to identify edible wild plants. In our modern age, we face an growing disconnect from our natural environment. Learning practical survival skills through Bushcraft is a great way for young people to reconnect with the environment. Or, take a look at our Forest School page if you are looking to give children an immersive connection with nature.

Speaking to some of the experts who have designed and run these outdoor bushcraft courses, we love what they have to offer school groups, and are keen to share them with you. We can offer you courses up and down the country, suitable for any key stage, from half day experiences to multi day adventures. We can even send bushcraft specialists to your school to teach your children on the school grounds. Take a look below or get in contact with us for more information.

Children living in urban areas often have very little contact with the great outdoors. Our woodlands and hills, rivers and streams are not part of their daily life, and many kids are completely detached from the natural world. Traditional residential activity holidays are great for getting school kids out in the fresh air, getting muddy, but a new breed of outdoor adventure trips are gaining serious momentum - the bushcraft trip - life without technology!

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Bushcraft school trips and workshops

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School Day Trips
School Day Trips
South West

Providing skills from fire lighting to orienteering. Highlighting the importance of shared learning and environmental awareness.


Adventure Bristol Residential
Adventure Bristol Residential
South West

Providing skills from fire lighting to orienteering. Highlighting the importance of shared learning and environmental awareness.

The Bioasis
The Bioasis
South West

Immerse your students in hands-on outdoor education that blends fun and essential skills. Our bushcraft activities include den building, fire-lighting, and shelter construction, sparking teamwork and...

The Bushcraft Company - Castle Howard
The Bushcraft Company - Castle Howard
North East

Bushcraft skills are at the core of what we do. There’s a whole host of activities available; Fire Lighting, Shelter Building, Camouflage and Concealment, Trap Making, Wilderness Cooking to name a...

The Bushcraft Company - Badminton Woods
The Bushcraft Company - Badminton Woods
South West

Bushcraft skills are at the core of what we do. There’s a whole host of activities available; Fire Lighting, Shelter Building, Camouflage and Concealment, Trap Making, Wilderness Cooking to name a...


The Bushcraft Company - Boughton Woods
The Bushcraft Company - Boughton Woods
East Midlands

Bushcraft skills are at the core of what we do. There’s a whole host of activities available; Fire Lighting, Shelter Building, Camouflage and Concealment, Trap Making, Wilderness Cooking to name a...

The Bushcraft Company - Penshurst Place
The Bushcraft Company - Penshurst Place
London & South East

Bushcraft skills are at the core of what we do. There’s a whole host of activities available; Fire Lighting, Shelter Building, Camouflage and Concealment, Trap Making, Wilderness Cooking to name a...

The Stone Age Company
The Stone Age Company
West Midlands

We can teach Bushcraft and survival skills including skills such as fire lighting, carving, camouflage, cooking on an open fire, shelter building, plant Identification and more.

Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre - Swanage
Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre - Swanage
South West

Our exciting Bushcraft sessions and challenges are geared to help you get back to basics whilst also enjoying the natural environment. Using our own woodland sites at our tented villages and at our...


Ackers Adventure Residential centre
Ackers Adventure Residential centre
West Midlands

Our Bushcraft instructors are passionate about providing an immersive and memorable experience for students in the great outdoors. With activities such as fire lighting, campfires, den and shelter...

Ackers Adventure Day Trips
Ackers Adventure Day Trips
West Midlands

Our Bushcraft instructors are passionate about providing an immersive and memorable experience for students in the great outdoors. With activities such as fire lighting, campfires, den and shelter...

In School Workshops
In School Workshops
in-school workshop

Our Bushcraft instructors are passionate about providing an immersive and memorable experience for students in the great outdoors. With activities such as fire lighting, campfires, den and shelter...

Arc Adventures
Arc Adventures
Wales

ARC Adventures offers exciting bushcraft experiences in South Wales, where you can master essential outdoor survival skills. Learn den building and shelter construction, perfect fire-lighting and...


Lochranza Centre CIC
Lochranza Centre CIC
Scotland

We provide a half day activity session on Bushcraft Skills. However we can also design a bespoke break based around Bushcraft Skills or Forest School activities.

Adventure Residential Trips
Adventure Residential Trips
Wales

We run our coastal craft sessions where we forage for various edible seaweeds along the coastline as well as crafting up "bread on a stick" to toast on the camp fire. We use Kelly kettles fueled with driftwood to make hot chocolates on the beach too!

Portland Outdoor Centre
Portland Outdoor Centre
South West

Coastal foraging, fire lighting and cooking are the key ingredients that make up our Bushcraft sessions. On the foreshore, the group will have the opportunity to explore and learn about their...

Adventure Beyond
Adventure Beyond
Wales

Imagine a classroom without walls, where students are engaged in hands-on learning, build essential life skills, and connect with the natural world. It's not just about survival; it's about thriving...


Buzz Active Bushy Wood
Buzz Active Bushy Wood
London & South East

We offer a great location to explore all aspects of forest School, and bushcraft/ fire craft. With an abundance of material for backwoods skills and bushcraft creativity. Bushy Wood has all you need...

Adventure Day Trips
Adventure Day Trips
Wales

We run our coastal craft sessions where we forage for various edible seaweeds along the coastline as well as crafting up "bread on a stick" to toast on the camp fire. We use Kelly kettles fuelled with...

Frank Chapman Outdoor Education Centre
Frank Chapman Outdoor Education Centre
West Midlands

Creating fires, building shelters and dens in our ancient oak forest is a memorable experience. We'll link the activities to your chosen aims and outcomes, and draw upon recreations of stone age processes and mastery of the environment!

Caldecotte Xperience
Caldecotte Xperience
All UK Regions

Bushcraft for young people of all abilities Providing an opportunity for young people to connect to the natural world is vitally important for their own health, well being and learning. Developing an...


Cote Ghyll Mill YHA
Cote Ghyll Mill YHA
Yorkshire

We have a dedicated campfire, bushcrafts & shelter building area in the grounds, it’s the perfect place to introduce younger children to new outdoor experiences. If you are looking for something...

New Forest Activities
New Forest Activities
London & South East

Bushcraft and camp skills with New Forest Activities are all about learning to be equipped and comfortable outdoors in an interesting and hands-on way. This could be anything from building shelters...

Beaudesert Activity Centre
Beaudesert Activity Centre
West Midlands

We can provide a range of bushcraft sessions at various levels including a number of fire lighting techniques, shelter building cooking and water purification. Our instructors are able to adapt sessions to your needs. Please call or email to arrange a telephone call with our activity manager.

Cumulus Outdoors Tented Village - Corfe Castle
Cumulus Outdoors Tented Village - Corfe Castle
South West

Our exciting Bushcraft sessions and challenges are geared to help you get back to basics whilst also enjoying the natural environment. Using our own woodland site on the Isle of Purbeck near Corfe...


Cumulus Outdoors Curriculum Day Trips
Cumulus Outdoors Curriculum Day Trips
South West

Our exciting Bushcraft sessions and challenges are geared to help you get back to basics whilst also enjoying the natural environment. Using our own woodland sites in the Isle of Purbeck our school...

Day Trip
Day Trip
South West

Our bush crafty centre is tucked away in a wood situated on our residential campsite. There is something about working with wood in the outdoors that will always have magic. Back to nature, working...

YMCA Fairthorne Manor
YMCA Fairthorne Manor
London & South East

Our immersive outdoor Bushcraft sessions and challenges focus on teaching students survival skills. Bushcraft sessions at Fairthorne can cover den building, fire lighting, camouflage and tracking, and...

Mount Cook
Mount Cook
East Midlands

Our activity instructors are highly trained in Bush Craft, meaning that groups can learn and develop skills at a variety of levels. We venture beyond forest school learning to cover friction fire...


Conway Centres Anglesey
Conway Centres Anglesey
Wales

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...

Residential Trip
Residential Trip
South West

We offer a safe environment to build dens, cook food, fires and create tools or something to keep as a memory. The more advanced groups will learn about survival tactics, but most of all we keep it...

Hindleap Warren Residential Visits
Hindleap Warren Residential Visits
London & South East

Learn how to build a basic shelter to keep you warm and dry. Then have a go at lighting a fire using a traditional flint and steel, or a bow drill to create fire via friction. Then the challenge is...

Deanfield Outdoor Centre
Deanfield Outdoor Centre
South West

Students will try various fire starting techniques before cooking dough twist dampers on an open fire. There is also the opportunity to cook popcorn bushcraft style. Often bushcraft is combined with...


Skern Lodge Day Visits
Skern Lodge Day Visits
South West

From campfires to shelter building, our instructors provide an ideal environment where young people can learn the practicalities of being able to survive in the wilderness.

Braeside Residential Adventure Centre
Braeside Residential Adventure Centre
South West

Bushcraft and survival activities offer a great opportunity for team bonding and personal development. Students can make a shelter, build a fire and cook over it, explore woodcraft and play woodland...

Hindleap Warren Day Visits
Hindleap Warren Day Visits
London & South East

Our bushcraft sessions teach essential survival skills in a hands-on, engaging way. Participants learn fire lighting techniques using flint and steel, foraging for dry wood, and working together to...

Calvert Devon
Calvert Devon
South West

Bushcraft is an activity that unleashes creativity and resourcefulness in the great outdoors. Whether carving tools from branches, hunting for wild edibles, or crafting cosy shelters, it’s an...


Peak - Underbank Activity Centre
Peak - Underbank Activity Centre
Yorkshire

Description: This is an activity that will teach people how to make shelters out of natural materials like wood and sticks, purify water, forage for edible food like berries, making tools, collecting...

Field Studies Council Amersham
Field Studies Council Amersham
London & South East

Identify basic survival needs, explore the woods, build a shelter and forage for wild foods. Follow a woodland trail and search for tracks and signs. A day filled with team building and...

Replace the Residential: Multi activity days!
Replace the Residential: Multi activity days!
in-school workshop

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...

Blackland Farm Outdoor Centre
Blackland Farm Outdoor Centre
London & South East

Our bespoke Bushcraft sessions can be tailored to your specific outcomes, but generally teach participants a range of topics, including shelter/den building, tarp craft, camp craft, fire lighting...


Juniper Hall Field Centre
Juniper Hall Field Centre
London & South East

Identify basic survival needs, explore the woods, build a shelter and forage for wild foods. Follow a woodland trail and search for tracks and signs. A day filled with team building and...

Dale Fort FIeld Centre
Dale Fort FIeld Centre
Wales

Identify basic survival needs, explore the woods, build a shelter and forage for wild foods. Follow a woodland trail and search for tracks and signs. A day filled with team building and...

London Field Sites
London Field Sites
London & South East

Identify basic survival needs, explore the woods, build a shelter and forage for wild foods. Follow a woodland trail and search for tracks and signs. A day filled with team building and problem...

Preston Montford Field Centre
Preston Montford Field Centre
West Midlands

Identify basic survival needs, explore the woods, build a shelter and forage for wild foods. Follow a woodland trail and search for tracks and signs. A day filled with team building and problem...


Isle of Wight - The Island Classroom
Isle of Wight - The Island Classroom
London & South East

Bushcraft is a set of skills that can help you survive in the wilderness. It includes things like finding food and water, building shelter, and making fire. Bushcraft can be a lot of fun, and it's...

The Towers Active Learning Centre
The Towers Active Learning Centre
Wales

The Towers Active Learning Centre in Snowdonia stands as an exceptional destination for students interested in bushcraft, offering an immersive and picturesque setting that is ideal for honing outdoor...

Peak - Mobile Outdoor Adventure Activities
Peak - Mobile Outdoor Adventure Activities
in-school workshop

Description: This is an activity that will teach people how to make shelters out of natural materials like wood and sticks, purify water, forage for edible food like berries, making tools, collecting...

So what is Bushcraft?

A bushcraft school trip is primarily designed to get children out of the classroom and into the wild (or as wild as we get in the UK), for a true nature experience. By the end of the course, especially if you are giving them a multi day experience, your school group will have a better understanding of our natural environment, and the children will have gained some practical and valuable outdoor skills. The type of knowledge that would have been commonplace to among our ancestors, but which many of us would now struggle with.

The typical school bushcraft trip will be aimed at beginners, giving everyone a chance to try lots of fun and challenging activities. Pupils will be taught how to safely enjoy a range of outdoor crafts, including camping and survival. Specific topics will include foraging for food, food preparation – build an open fire to keep you warm and to fill your tummies by cooking fish or meat, shelter building – guess where you are sleeping tonight! Learn to make a safe and secure shelter to keep you dry and warm, sourcing and filtering water, making tools out of natural materials, identifying plants and trees, tracking and navigation skills, crafts and much more.

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Stone Age bushcraft

Looking for something a bit different? Our friends at The Stone Age Company offer multi day residentials in woodland locations, or short day and half day courses at your school, suitable for and tailored to all key stages. Get hands on with cave art, fat lamps and stone tools in this incredible stone age experience – feedback from teachers who have been on this courses is extremely enthusiastic! Read more about this one here: Stone Age Bushcraft Course






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