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, it was a pretty busy place to be working today! All … Read More »
Category Archives: High Ropes
Harper Adams at the Adventure Rope Course
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 by this point and a day at the Adventure Rope … Read More »
Madeley Academy at the Adventure Ropes Course
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 Adventure Rope Course, where we split them into 4 groups and … Read More »
Shrewsbury High School Return to the Adventure Ropes Course
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 tends to be true, but tempered slightly by a recent … Read More »
Castle House School at the Adventure Ropes Course
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 up to senior school. Today, the parents arranged a picnic on … Read More »
Ellesmere Primary School at the Adventure Rope Course
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 Course before, and there were a few wide eyes as … Read More »
Prestfelde on the Jacob’s Ladder
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 had all been to the Adventure Rope Course before, so … Read More »
Family at the Adventure Rope Course
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 it was fantastic to hear that they were planning a … Read More »
Harper Adams at the Adventure Rope Course
The last two days have seen over 100 students from Harper Adams University College come through the gates at the Adventure Rope Course. With a large number of foreign students joining them for the third year of their studies, the staff have brought them to the Rope Course near the beginning of the academic year as a way of encouraging the students to mix and … Read More »
St George’s Junior School at the Adventure Rope Course
It was a busy day at the Adventure Rope Course with just short of 90 pupils from St George's Junior School and over a dozen staff and parents lending a hand. The kids were split into 8 groups, with a couple of adults in each, for the course of the day. The 8 instructors stayed on the same activity all day, so that we could … Read More »