Activities/Enrichment Week

The embercombe wilderness survival experience...

A unique opportunity to wild camp in self built shelters, hunt and forage for food, build rafts and navigate the lake, all using traditional tools and survival skills as seen on TV with Bear Grylls and Ray Mears.

This action packed programme is available for schools from just £12.50 + VAT per day per student or £102.50 + VAT for 3 days and 2 nights including all accommodation and food.

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We are offering this programme to schools for activities/enrichment week 2014 for students aged between 11 and 15. Presenting a unique opportunity to experience first hand and handson many of the bushcraft activities and survival techniques they will have seen on TV with Bear Grylls and Ray Mears.

 

This is a fabulous multi-day residential programme where young people wild camp in self built shelters or sleep under the stars (or in our cosy yurt village!) forage, harvest and prepare food from our gardens and woodlands (including squirrel and rabbit!), learn wildcraft skills such as fire making, green woodworking, hunting tool making, stalking skills and making rafts in our wildlife lake.

All activities are centred around having fun and developing new talents, providing participants with a challenging, never to be forgotten experience, connecting them with the world that we live in and contributing towards a stronger bond with their peergroup. This is a unique, unmissable wilderness experience for your young people.

 

Other activities include making pizzas in the clay pit pizza ovens, learning sustainable building skills and orienteering on Dartmoor.

 

We can organise additional activities as part of your residential programme include rock climbing, abseiling, canoeing, horse riding and zip wiring in tree tops.*
Whilst this is a residential programme we do also offer daily activities click here for a sample daily activities programme which are full of adventure and opportunities to develop new skills.

Prices start at £12.50 + VAT per pupil per day and from £45 + VAT per pupil for residential, dependent on numbers and programme content. So for a 3 day and 2 night programme it would cost £102.50 exclusive of VAT. We think this presents excellent value for money and we hope it will mean that no student is excluded from taking part on price. We do have a bursary scheme for students that would still find it difficult to raise the costs outlined above.

Please contact Jo at Embercombe on 01647 252983 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

Wilderness Adventure Days

A morning packed with some fantastic bushcraft activities, metal forging and green woodworking, where materials are foraged for and then fashioned into useful or decorative objects to take home. Followed by a big pizza lunch, where ingredients are gathered and then cooked by you in our big clay oven.  The afternoon will see the great Embercombe raft challenge where you and your team will build a raft and then race it across the lake in the grand finale which will see some sinking and some swimming but hopefully some floating as well!

Sample Programme

10.00 – 12.00

Students will choose from one of the following activities:
Morning Activity 1
Pizza making
10 students will gather ingredients from the extensive gardens, prepare the dough, make the toppings and then cook pizza in our outdoor clay oven for the whole group at lunch time.
Morning Activity 2
Bush craft knife skills
Students will receive instruction in safe and efficient knife use resulting in the production of a useful tool or piece of jewellery made from material sourced from our woods. 
Morning Activity 3
Green woodworking skills
Students will receive tuition in the use of a shaving horse or pole lathe, once mastered they will produce a mallet, tent pegs, walking stick or artistic piece from material sourced from our wood.
Morning Activity 4
Felt making
Learn how to felt sheep wool producing lovely Christmas tree decorations, children’s toys or hats.
Morning Activity 5
Blacksmith workshop
Learn how to forge hot metal and make your own useful tool such as a coat hook, or fashion some unique handmade jewellery.

12.00 -12.30   

Lunch

12.30 – 14.30   

Raft challenge
Teams have to create a raft with the materials available, get to the other side of the lake, keep the map dry, get back and then dismantle the raft all before the coach leaves!

14.45

Leave Embercombe

Cost

The cost of each of these days will be £15 + VAT per student based on 25 students each day. This will cover the cost of all the materials they need, all day activity tuition and management, refreshments and lunch. Prices for smaller groups are available upon request.

Substitute activities include, fire making and shelter building, animals tracking and squirrel/rabbit preparation, cooking and eating!

Optional extras include canoeing, climbing, abseiling, zip wire adventures and horse riding. Please note extra activities will have an additional charge per person.