Price
£439 per child

Itinerary

Monday

• Introduction and safety brief
• Children are split into tribes and allocated a tribe leader
• Tribe camp set up
• The tribes make tribal flags and necklaces
• Lunch
• Fire lecture with demonstrations
• Children light their fires, cook marshmallows and get to know one another Primitive fishing and netting techniques
• The Crayfish nets are set
• Wide games in the nearby fields
• Central supper of spaghetti bolognaise
• Children go to bed in bell tents

Tuesday

• Cooked breakfast of eggy crumpets and bacon
• Children are shown the many different tools used in Bushcraft including machetes and axes as well as primitive tools
• Children learn about snaring and each carve their own snare peg
• The instructors show the many traps they have set up and how they work
• Lunch
• Children are given some string and told to design their own traps in their tribes
• Children build their shelters and set up a new camp
• Children light their fires using bow drill
• Children cook their own supper in front of their shelters, using dutch ovens to roast venison in the embers
• Big game of swallows and amazons
• Children go to bed in their shelters

Wednesday

• Children light their own fires and cook breakfast
• Bow drill practice
• Mountain biking / Archery
• Children walk down to the lake for a lunch of whole roast salmon, crab and crayfish
• Swimming and showers under the waterfall
• Stalking lecture and stalking games through the forest
• Cam /con games
• Children make big pizzas from scratch and cook them in our outdoor clay oven
• Night-line
• Children go to bed in their shelters

Thursday

• Big cooked breakfast
• Children begin the navigation exercise
• Children light fires and cook their own lunch
• Children continue the navigation exercise
• We cook a big supper for the students at base camp
• The evening entertainment begins
• Children sleep under the stars

Friday

• Children cook a frontiersman breakfast
• Children visit the fun range
• Prize-giving
• Big Bushtucker Barbecue

 

Price
£439 per child

Itinerary

Monday

• Children are met on arrival and split into tribes
• Each tribe is given a map and coordinates to find their bell tent
• The tribes find their bell tents and navigate into base camp where they set up their camps
• Lunch
• Fire lecture and bow drill practice
• Children collect fire wood and light their fires
• Children are given a lesson in knife techniques / knife safety
• Snaring lecture
• Children carve a snare peg each
• Children are given a demonstration of how to skin and butcher whole rabbit and squirrel
• Children cook rabbit stew for supper
• Bed in bell tents

Wednesday

• Cooked breakfast
• Bow drill practice
• Children are introduced to wilderness first aid, evacuation and emergency survival skills
• Lecture on navigation using maps and compasses.
• Children cook lunch of fresh trout over their fires
• Shelter lecture
• Children build lean-to’s for their tribes to sleep in
• Children prepare supper of spit roast venison with fresh vegetables
• Supper
• Pumpkin carving
• Games
• Bed in shelters

Tuesday

• Children cook bacon on hot rocks
• Bow drill practice
• Lecture on wild foods, including medical and nutritional properties
• Children go on a plant walk through the forest
• Wilderness cookery lessons begin in our massive scandinavian teepee
• Lunch of nettle soup, fresh bread and wild berry crumble all made by the students
• Hunting, tracking and trapping lecture with demonstrations of extensive traps made by our instructors
• Children embark on a short tracking exercise
• Children learn how to prepare wild game, and use the clay oven to cook their meat
• Games and stories round the fire
• Bed in their bell tents

Thursday

• Cooked breakfast
• The students begin their survival navigation exercise
• Lunch
• Children continue the survival exercise
• Central supper around the fire Games
• Children sleep under tarpaulins which they have set up

Friday

• Children cook a frontiersman breakfast
• Prize-giving
• Children visit the fun range using sling shots
• Big Bushtucker Barbecue of alternative meats