Today I had the great pleasure in spending the day with two great young people, looking at navigation and map work around the Long Mynd area of the Shropshire Hills. They actually live in London, but are up in Shropshire for a couple of weeks during the Summer holiday. While up this way, they've signed up to do a couple of courses with the Adventure … Read More »
Category Archives: Navigation
Archery and Orienteering with Adventure +
Ellesmere College is fortunate enough to have a wide variety of facilities, and one addition to this over recent years has been to indoor archery range. By fitting specially designed netting behind the targets and over any windows, they have been able to create a range inside an old sports hall. This morning, we decided to put this facility to good use by running an archery … Read More »
Orienteering at Haughmond Hill with Adventure +
Today was the third day of Ellesmere College's Adventure + holiday programme. After a day of rock climbing, and a day of canoeing, we headed to Haughmond Hill near Shrewsbury for a morning of orienteering on the permanent orienteering course set up by the Wrekin Orienteers. Due to road closures on the way, we didn't have as much time as we had hoped for, so we … Read More »
Orienteering at Nesscliffe Hill Country Park
Today was the last day of this Easter's Adventure + holiday club program at Ellesmere College. Normally it runs over 5 days but, with tomorrow being Good Friday and a bank holiday, we'er a day short of usual. This morning I took them to Nesscliffe Hill Country Park where there is a permanent orienteering course which has been laid out. I have done a basic orienteering … Read More »
Orienteering at Llanymynech
This morning I took the kids from Ellesmere College's Adventure Plus activity program over to Llnaymynech for a bit of orienteering. The Wrekin Orienteers (a local orienteering club) have set up a number of permanent orienteering courses in the local area and make the maps available through their website. It makes life very straight forward to be able to go to a venue and not have … Read More »
