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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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LGRS Raft Build

POSTED: 20th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

A fabulous day was had out on Coniston Water with students from LGRS. Kat and Kevin spent a day providing kit and their technical know how to lead team raft building sessions for part of the school’s annual residential. The rafts we soooo good in fact… that they even made it all the way out to Peel Island!

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Threlkeld C of E

POSTED: 17th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Real Adventure supported Threlkeld Primary School’s annual residential by providing canoes and the talented John Kettle to run a day of paddling on Coniston water for 33 young people. The the sun was shining but it was very windy and to escape some of the blowy weather a river expedition was launched up Church Beck, with the challenge being to see just how far up...

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SPA Training

POSTED: 12th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Qualifications

A great few days had by all! Based at YMCA Lakeside, the group have been using the indoor wall on site as well at getting out on some limestone at Twistleton… and finishing the day today at Penny Rigg.

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Lindale Primary in Ennerdale

POSTED: 12th June 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

The young people from Lindale Primary had a brilliant three days with us at Low Gillerthwaite in Ennerdale this week.They are in the process of creating ‘The Big Write’, a detailed account of all of their learning in the outdoors…. more from them soon!

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Lindal & Marton Primary School Residential

POSTED: 27th May 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

On Monday 23rd we picked up 24 trainee adults and 4 of their staff and headed over to Gearstones Lodge in the Dales for the week.After a wet and wild time packing and driving over to the dales we changed plan from the Ghyll Scramble (which would have been flooding) to the climbing wall before ariving at the Lodge for our first feast.During the week we all Caved,...

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Malvern 2011 Residential

POSTED: 16th May 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

On Thursday 12th May we had 70+ Year 9’s from Malvern College turn up with their staff for 4 days of fun and adventure.
The long weekend was mainly a a Duke of Edinburgh taster surrounded by kayaking, canoeing, climbing, caving, ghyll scrambling, rock climbing lots of fun and tasty food.

A huge thanks goes out to Mr Major and his staff for committing their days...

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Hill House School - Day 4

POSTED: 17th March 2011 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Day 4

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