Category: Accommodation

WEBSITE LINK: www.kingswood.co.uk

EMAIL ADDRESS: schools@kingswood.co.uk

CONTACT: 01603 309300

School Trip & Group Educational Information

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Kingswood Colomendy Centre is the perfect location for your next school trip. Set deep in a Welsh valley in Flintshire, North Wales this is one of the country’s finest educational activity centres. Having already had a long history welcoming schoolchildren, the centre now welcomes the next generation of pupils, and with recent substantial investment provides an abundance of new adventure activity facilities, state-of-the-art ICT labs and environmental classrooms.

Kingswood is one of the UK’s leading providers of residential educational activity courses to schools and colleges, welcoming over 130,000 children to its 7 UK centres and one French centre annually. Kingswood specialises in purpose-designed Education + Adventure courses which cover many areas of the National Curriculum, all combined with thrilling adventure activities.

Leaning Beyond The Classroom

Kingswood leads the field in providing the most educationally relevant & crosscurricular range of KS2 (Scottish P4-7), KS3 (S1-3) & KS4 – ‘A’ Level (S4-5) residential programmes developed alongside leading educationalists.

Kingswood takes “Learning Beyond The Classroom” combining innovative educational modules with thrilling and challenging adventure activities. Colomendy boasts over 38 exciting and challenging adventure activities, including a giant 3G Swing, Caving System, Aerial Walkway, Climbing & Abseiling Towers and apurpose-built Watersports area, to name a few.

Kingswood Colomendys specially trained Instructors understand the needs of every pupil, providing the gentle encouragement & support so that young people really excel in a safe and secure BAHA regulated environment.

Colomendy offers many of the best Kingswood Programmes including:

Discovery Programme – Key Stage 2 / P4-7
Designed especially for Key younger pupils, Discovery remains a leading residential educational course and a firm favourite with pupils and teachers alike. Choose from 12 themed cross-curricular modules targeted at specific study areas which make learning an exciting and rewarding exploration. Combining education with almost 40 adventure activities.

Alpha Projects – Key Stage 2 / P4-7
Designed to exclusively benefit students facing particular challenges in their academic and personal lives, the Alpha Projects modules offer a real boost. Involving students in group activities tackling real-life scenarios, the underlying philosophy is to promote key skills such as planning, communications, influencing problem-solving and teamwork.

3+ Programme - Key Stage 3 / S1-3
The 3+ programme allows teachers to create their own flexible timetable from a comprehensive selection of 12 studies, mixing cross-curricular educational modules such as ‘Mission Critical’ with specialist lifeskills sessions like ‘Transition’, all combined with adventure activities.

Adventure Choice – KS2-‘A’ Level / P4-7, S1-5
One of our most popular courses, Adventure Choice combines all the elements of our best adventure activities. Faced with completely new activities and experiences, the course offers much more than just fun and games for pupils, challenging their boundaries.

Adventure Extreme – KS3 – ‘A’ Level / S1-5
New for 2008, we launch “Adventure Extreme”, exclusively at our Colomendy Centre in Wales. Benefiting from a £1m investment into new extreme activities, like ‘3G Swing’ and a 1km-long ‘Giant Zipwire’ this is one of the most exciting and exhilarating adventure programmes available anywhere in the UK.

Watersports Weekends – KS3 – ‘A’ Level / S1-5
At selected centres during May-July, students can dive into a specialised weekend of watery adventures. All offer a fantastic range of exciting aqua activities to suit all kinds of pupils, like Raft Building, Kayaking, Canoeing and Body Boarding (exclusive to the Isle of Wight)

Environmental Field Studies – KS4 – ‘A’ Level / S4-5
Covering key elements of the Key Stage 4 – ‘A’ Level curriculum for Biology, Geography, Ecology and Environmental Tourism, our studies take place in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Giving students the opportunity to collect data for fieldwork, modules cover rivers, settlements, coasts, flora & fauna, landscapes and ecosystem management.

The modules within the Discovery Programme for KS2 & P4-7 pupils include specialised workbooks written by educationalists and tailored to areas of the Curriculum.

 

All of Kingswood’s activities and centres have had full risk assessments compiled – these can be downloaded from our website at www.kingswood.co.uk for LA and school use.

Activity List:

• 3G Swing
• Aerial Walk
• Abseiling
• Aeroball
• Archery
• Beach Volleyball
• Body Boarding
• Canoe Splash
• Castle Clamber
• Caving
• Climbing
• Fan Descender
• Fencing
• Giant Zipwire
• Go-Karts
• High Ropes
• Indoor Initiatives
• Jacob’s Ladder
• Kayaking
• Laser Zone
• Leap of Faith
• Low Ropes
• Mission Possible
• Nightline
• Orienteering
• Parachute Games
• Problem Solving
• Quad Biking
• Raft Building
• Snorkelling
• Swimming
• TASK
• Team Challenge
• Team Tech
• Twilight Zone Evening Ents
• Zipwire

Kingswood is now part of the Education Travel Group, the UK’s leading supplier of educationally rich group tours, school ski courses, sports tours and residential centre breaks for schools & colleges, with over 75 years expertise - www.educationtravelgroup.com.

Featured Listing: No

Age of Children / Pupils:

• 8 – 10 years
• 11 – 13 years
• 14 – 16 years
• College

Region:

• Wales

Type of visit:

• Adventure Playgrounds
• Bushcraft
• Green Awareness
• Outdoor Education
• Outdoor Pursuits
• Personal Development-Mentoring
• Picnic Areas
• Residential School Trips
• Sports
• Team Building
• Water Sports
• Wildlife and Nature

Accommodation:

• Outdoor Residential Centres

Curriculum topics:

• Citizenship
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• ICT
• MFL
• PE
• PSHE
• Science

Months Open:

• All Year Round
• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• September
• October
• November
• December

Disabled Facilities: Yes