This afternoon, I had the great pleasure of joining Tara to celebrate her 13th birthday at the Adventure Rope Course. With a group of friends in tow, we’d arranged to spend a couple of hours having some fun on a variety of activities where the girls could work together. Due to the recent strong winds [...]

Birthdays are usually a great day, especially when you’re a kid, and it’s a privilege to be asked to help make it a memorable day. Today was Giles’ big day and he took the opportunity to bring some of his friends to the Adventure Rope Course near Shrewsbury. In total, there were 9 in the [...]

Today, I was part of a team that hosted pupils from St George’s Primary School at the Adventure Rope Course, just north of Shrewsbury. It was intended as a team building day, to develop relationships and cooperation among the pupils at the beginning of the school year. With 8 groups of about 10 excited kids, [...]

Both Friday and today, I found myself working at the Adventure Rope Course with groups from Harper Adams University College. The college specialises in agriculture and land based studies, and has a large foreign intake into the final year of many of it’s courses. As a result, the British based students have formed established relationships [...]

With the end of term approaching, the Madeley Academy school from Telford had arranged a wide variety of outings for all their pupils today. A day at the Adventure Ropes Course was one of many including trips to Alton Towers, Chester Zoo, Canoeing on the River Severn and many more. 44 pupils headed to the [...]

For the last couple of years, the staff from Shrewsbury High School have brought some of their girls to the Adventure Ropes Course as a treat after the completion of the DofE expedition. You might expect, with the end of term just around the corner, that they would be very excitable. To some extent this [...]

Castle House is an independent day school in Newport for children between the ages of 2 and 11. As part of their end of school year celebrations, the parents arranged a number of activities and treats, especially for the Year 6 pupils that will be leaving the school at the end of term, to move [...]

This afternoon, I took a small group of 6 pupils from Ellesmere Primary School for a 2 hour session at the Adventure Rope Course just north of Shrewsbury, on the grounds of the Albrighton Hall Hotel. One or two had some previous experience of high rope activities, but none had been to the Adventure Rope [...]

I’ve done quite a lot of work with pupils from Prestfelde school in Shrewsbury in the past, so it was quite nice to see some familiar faces this afternoon. I’d been asked to run an hour’s session on the Jacob’s Ladder at the Adventure Rope Course for 8 pupils during an after school activity slot. They [...]

This weekend was a real treat for me and my family as we had some very special visitors. My cousin, Peter, lives in America so we don’t exactly get to see him much. I haven’t seen Peter for 15 years; Marci, his wife, for 20 years; and have never met their 3 children before. So [...]