Blog - Young People

Lindal & Marton In Ennerdale

POSTED: 1st June 2012 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

This week we took Lindale-in-Marton School over to Ennerdale. Each year we take the Y 5&6’s on a residential and we do a bi annual trip… one year to the Dales for a spot of caving, ghyll scrambling, mountain walking and climbing, the other to Ennerdale for the bigger hills, lakes and wet ghylls.
The team loved the week, we had a BBQ one night around...

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Malvern College Residential 2012

POSTED: 14th May 2012 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

This is the second year Malvern College have come to us at Real Adventure, we have a great 4 days. 76 young people, 13 teachers and 13 Real Adventure staff were part of this years successful residential. A huge thanks to the everyone involved. Enjoy the video…

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Year 1 & 2’s enjoy Ennerdale

POSTED: 26th April 2012 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

This week headed over to Low Gillerthwaite Field Centre in Ennderdale and ran an environmental and team building day for each class. Over the 4 days all the Year 1 & 2’s from St Gregory and St Patricks Primary School in groups of 36 each day travelled from Whitehaven into Ennerdale for there day of fun and learning.
They started the day after an introduction...

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Canoeing on Coniston with Sir John Barrow

POSTED: 19th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Sir John Barrow School do a great job at running their own school residential course each year. Their staff are well experienced and some qualified to a level that they are happy to run some of the activities that the young people do when they are away with them.

This year we went along to help out with the canoeing day. John Kettle brought our set of Open Canoes over...

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River Study

POSTED: 15th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Today we picked up all the year 5 & 6 from Lindale in Marton school and after an initial classroom session to teach them the basics and hand out wellies and waterproofs we headed up to the Walna Scar Road area nr Coniston and complete a full study of the river investigating how a river changes as it moves downstream. From sauce to mature river the team measured the...

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St Christopher’s LSP

POSTED: 8th July 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Based at Great Tower Scout Camp on Windermere 48 pupils from St Christopher’s School spent eight days and seven nights exploring the Lake District. Walking up mountains, crawling underneath them, scrambling up ghylls, climbing up the rock, abseiling down, paddling on the lake and all whilst building personal confidence and teamwork skills…. So much to fit in!...

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Flookburgh Primary

POSTED: 30th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Based at Low Gillerthwaite the group of twenty two young people spent four days exploring, team building and having fun! Haycock, Red Pike and High Stile we some of the fells they found themselves at the top of… not to mention a day spent completing team building initiatives and an evening spent night swimming and wading up the river.

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Barrow Island Climbing Day

POSTED: 29th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Family & Group Adventures, Young People

Twenty five young people from Barrow Island spent the morning or afternoon climbing in the south lakes as part of their residential based at Fisher Ground Campsite. Real Adventure had a brilliant day out supporting the residential organised by Barrow Island Primary School.

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Old Hutton Primary

POSTED: 25th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Young people from Old Hutton Primary spent the first day of their residential finding their way to camp on a self led walk, followed by cooking on trangiers and setting up tents in the evening. Based at Low Gillerthwaite for the rest of the four days the 24 pupils went mountain walking, ghyll scrambling, canoeing, participated in team building initiatives and were...

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Crosthwaite Primary

POSTED: 24th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Picked up from school, students from Crosthwaite Primary were whisked away to the Holly How YHA at Coniston for a fantastic three days of real adventure. Ghyll scrambling, canoe sailing, mountain walking, abseiling and mountain scrambling were all on the menu for the Real Adventure residential enjoyed by twenty four pupils.

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