Kingswood Overstrand Hall Centre Norfolk

Kingswood has been providing life changing adventures for young people for 40 years. Hundreds of thousands of children experience a Kingswood residential every year and day trips are also available, providing an excellent opportunity for children to develop their confidence, resilience and life skills.

With 11 centres scattered across the UK, each offers something slightly different, from stunning coastal scenes to grand private estates and historic woodlands. Whether you enjoy high-adrenaline excitement or crave the challenge of a long hike in an area of outstanding natural beauty, all locations have acres of green space, a passionate team to welcome you and the opportunity to make memories that will last a lifetime.

Kingswood Overstrand Hall Adventure Activity Centre Norfolk

Kingswood offer a range of educational outdoor adventure programmes that are suitable for all key stages; integrating a variety of curriculum content within activities and working with teachers to bring subject content to life. The benefits of outdoor learning on mental health and wellbeing are proven, and all activities are designed to help build confidence and resilience.

Quality Badge awarded by Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.

British Activity Providers Association.

Association of Language Travel Organizations.

British Educational Travel Association.

Adventure mark.

Adventure Activities Licensing Authority.

Institute for Outdoor Learning.

We tailor make all our programmes to fit with the needs of the group, please visit our website at http://www.kingswood.co.uk to find out more about the programmes we offer.

Kingswood generally work with group sizes of 12 to 15 participants but our centres can accommodate much larger groups.

Kingswood, in partnership with Enrich Education, provide visitors with pre- and post-trip activity packs. These include a selection of activities that support PE, English, Maths, Science and Geography curricula, taken from the Enrich School Orienteering and Outdoor Learning Digital Hub. Each activity links with one of the six Kingswood curriculum categories (Challenge, Play, Explore, Discover, Social, Reflect). All activities include a teacher’s plan and children’s resource sheets where required.
In addition, Kingswood offers schools a unique ‘confidence tracker’ tool, created in partnership with insight specialists, Spike, and with counsel from Dr Alice Jones Bartoli and Professor Justin Dillon, to enable them to evidence and evaluate the success of a trip.

Please speak to our team regarding any photographic or AV requirements.

Policies page – Risk management arrangements for each of the Kingswood centres.

All our programs are tailor made to suit each school’s individual needs. For more information or a personalised quote, please call us on 0800 655 6564 or email: sales@kingswood.co.uk

All requirements for your trip are explained in the pre-visit packs.

There is always a fully qualified first aider on site for any medical emergencies.

Set along a coastline designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, as one of our dedicated Environmental Field Studies centres, fieldwork modules may be selected according to your schools exam board from within geography, geology, biology and environmental science. Led by our dedicated Environmental Instructor Team, all programmes can be adapted to meet the teaching syllabus of your school.

This tranquil, stately setting gives way to an exhilarating adventure activity park set amongst pretty landscaped and wooded gardens close to the main building. It is here that pupils can face challenging adventures ranging from an artificial caving system, woodland problem solving course, low ropes, solve a whole series of demanding initiative exercises, fire an arrow or learn to fence. Our new high ropes course includes daring and challenging elements like Jungle Vines, Jacob’s Ladder and High All Aboard.

The grand manor house with its Tudor Room and Knight’s Table Room is complemented by a modern atrium which leads through to the funky American style diner and recreational areas. Sweeping corridors lead to clean and comfortable accommodation areas, excellent ICT labs and environmental classrooms. Coded security gates with CCTV and boundary fencing keep the site safe and secure.

Please get in touch as this is assessed on a case by case basis, please call us on 0800 655 6564.

Day visits are available year round

Please contact us regarding further details and availability:

C: 01237 880028 or E: sales@kingswood.co.uk

Excellent! Could not have chosen a better centre for our A2 Biology Field Trip!

Wrenn School