Our Offer for Schools and Groups
We offer bespoke, high-quality day and residential outdoor education programmes for schools, clubs and groups (including youth groups). We can offer exclusive access to Oxenwood or Linkenholt Centres for your day or residential group. You can choose from a variety of exciting adventure activities, team-building exercises or curriculum enrichment with a historical, literacy or other theme.
Our programmes are bespoke and designed to meet your individual needs, with qualified and experienced instructors who are focused on delivering exciting, engaging and safe activities. All of the activities delivered at Oxenwood and Linkenholt are centred around teamwork, effective communication and confidence building, allowing you to set measurable goals and celebrate your achievements.
Our team of Outdoor Education Instructors can bring learning and adventure to life for your school, youth club or group.
Adventure Activities
Taking part in adventure activities in a safe, engaging and structured environment is a fantastic way for young people to develop independence, self-confidence, teamwork and trust. Some of our most popular adventure activities include:
Archery
Bushcraft/Survival Skills
Canoeing
Paddle Sports
Raft Building
Kayaking
Climbing Wall
Cycle Skills
Mountain Biking
Fencing
Olympic Style Air Rifle
Other Activities
Alongside adventure activities, we also offer a variety of opportunities for team building and outdoor learning (including environmental studies and woodland activities), organised group walking, navigation and orienteering:
Organised local walks (day and night walking)
Orienteering
Photo search
Navigation and map reading
Night navigation exercises
Journeying and basic expedition
Problem-solving (outdoor and indoor)
Shelter building
Mini beast hunting
Stream survey and stream dipping
Tree identification
Bird identification
Woodland art and sculpture
Mountain days and rock climbing (offsite)
Curriculum Enrichment Days
Need help with a topic? We can offer a range of Curriculum Enrichment Days covering themes including literacy and history.
We bring history and literacy to life with themed enrichment days, where we meet our ancestors (or literary characters and stories) close up, and through a range of interactive and action-oriented workshops. We cover most periods, from our Stone Age ancestors through to the present day. Topics we have previously covered include Celts and Romans, King Arthur, Beowulf, The Vikings and 1066: The Year of Battles.
For more information about historical/literacy theme days at Oxenwood, please see Curriculum Enrichment Days.
School and Group Residentials
School and group residential trips are a great way for young people to engage positively with learning outside the classroom. Being away from home also helps young people to develop essential life skills like decision-making, problem-solving, confidence and personal responsibility. For many young people, a structured and well-organised residential can be a life-changing experience.
We can organise self-catered, part-catered and fully-catered residentials for schools, clubs and groups with a range of activities to choose from. Oxenwood Outdoor Education Centre has a 38-bed capacity plus additional beds for 6-8 group leaders. The Centre is ideal for schools and youth groups such as Scouts, Brownies and Duke of Edinburgh.
Example Programmes
One Night Residential (Key Stage 1)
Day One
- Arrive at Centre. Introductions, Safety talk and tour of the building – bags to rooms and fire drill
- Walk to owl barn (1/2 mile) – learn about owls and owl pellets
- Woodland activities – shelter building, mini beast hunting, woodland art
- Evening meal and tidy up
- Evening nature walk
- Bed
Day Two
- Breakfast and tidy up, pack bags and clear rooms
- Botley Drove daytime nature walk
- Lunch
- Photo search (if time)
- Departure
Dawn to Dusk Day
Day Programme
- Arrive at the Centre
- Introductions
- Full day of adventure activities
- Barbeque
- Night hike
- Departure
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