After an introduction to rock climbing at Trevor Quarry yesterday, where the climbs were relatively short, I took the groups from the Ellesmere College Adventure Plus program to Llanymynech.  The venue offers a lot of climbing, but most of the routes are bolted sports climbs and not appropriate for group use. Cul-de-Sac Quarry is the [...]

After two days of canoeing with the kids on the Ellesmere College Adventure Plus holiday activities club, it was time for a change. Last Summer I did some indoor bouldering with the groups, which was followed up with a visit to the indoor climbing wall at Plas Madoc at Easter. It seemed like a natural [...]

For the second day of Ellesmere College’s Adventure Plus holiday program we headed back to The Mere in Ellesmere for a second day of paddling. Yesterday had been a ‘dry’ session due to a number of the group not having a spare chance of clothes, but everyone was ready and raring to go this morning. [...]

Ellesmere College started running their Adventure Plus holiday club last Summer. It offers a week long program of activities for 11 to 14 year olds and today was the start of the first week that they will be running the program this Summer. Some of the activities make the most of the facilities that Ellesmere [...]

I’ve been very privileged to spend the last week working with a group of 6 Canadian Cadets on a rock climbing course in North Wales. They are part of a larger group of cadets that have been selected to come over to the UK for several weeks as part of an exchange. This week, they [...]

Today was the last day of the 2 week summer school at Prestfelde Preparatory School in Shrewsbury. During that time, I’ve been there most days either doing some of the normal variety of activities I offer or helping out with general fun and games. Having done some archery with them last week, the plan for [...]

This evening, Steph and I played host to a group of local Girl Guides who had been treated to a trip to the Adventure Rope Course. Recently, we’ve found a particular combination of activities that seem to work really well when there are enough for 2 groups to work independently for most of the session, [...]

A number of Year 10 pupils from Mary Webb School in Shropshire have been coming along to the Adventure Rope Course on a Wednesday afternoon as part of a 6 week series of sessions aiming to give the pupils the chance to learn some of the basic skills associated with rope work. Today’s session was [...]

Having taken the kids from the Prestfelde summer school to the Adventure Rope Course last week, we thought it would be nice to head back. However, we were keen to give the kids a bit more of a choice in what they wanted to do, so not everyone did the same set of activities. My [...]

I was back at the Adventure Rope Course again today, but this time with the kids from the Prestfelde summer school. Many of the older pupils from Prestfelde have been to the Rope Course on a number of occasions in the past. The school runs a program called Prestfelde Plus which encourages pupils to get [...]