Our offer
At Lancashire Outdoor Education our residential experience provides the opportunity for young people to:
- Learn about themselves, others, and the environment
- Try new things outside their comfort zones
- Explore their potential whilst make lifelong memories.
Our programmes can be designed flexibly to achieve your group aims. We provide clean, warm, and tidy accommodation facilities with tasty, nutritious, and satisfying home cooked food as part of our residential offer.
Residential courses
See below for a sample of our popular 2-night, 3 day residential and 4 night, 5 day residential.
3 day residential sample
Numbers: Example 45 + 5
Age: 8-10 year olds
Aims: To Learn about ourselves, others and the environment. To try new things outside of our comfort zone. To explore our potential and make lifelong memories
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A | Arrival, move into bedrooms, site tour and fire drill | Problem Solving | Canoeing | Rocky Ramble | Climbing Challenges | Course Review, packed lunch, goodbyes and depart |
| Group B | Problem Solving | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | Canoeing | Climbing Challenges | ||
| Group C | Problem Solving | Canoeing | Climbing Challenges | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | ||
| Group D | Problem Solving | Climbing Challenges | Canoeing | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | ||
5 day residential sample
Numbers: Example 62 + 7
Age: 10-11 Years
Aims: To Learn about ourselves, others and the environment. To try new things outside of our comfort zone. To explore our potential and make lifelong memories.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A | Own packed lunch before arrival , Welcome, settle in and site tour | Problem Solving | Adventure Day (This is a day off site, examples include: caving in the Yorkshire Dales, a mountain day, paddling on a lake) | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | Bouldering + climbing wall/Tree climb/Abseil | Canoeing | Ropes Course | Teaching in individual teams, Orienteering Competition | individual course review, packed lunch, depart | |
| Group B | Problem Solving | Adventure Day (This is a day off site, examples include: caving in the Yorkshire Dales, a mountain day, paddling on a lake) | Bouldering + climbing wall/Tree climb/Abseil | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | Ropes Course | Canoeing | ||||
| Group C | Problem Solving | Canoeing | Ropes Course | Adventure Day (This is a day off site, examples include: caving in the Yorkshire Dales, a mountain day, paddling on a lake) | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | Bouldering + climbing wall/Tree climb/Abseil | ||||
| Group D | Problem Solving | Ropes Course | Canoeing | Adventure Day (This is a day off site, examples include: caving in the Yorkshire Dales, a mountain day, paddling on a lake) | Bouldering + climbing wall/Tree climb/Abseil | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | ||||
| Group E | Problem Solving | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | Bouldering + climbing wall/Tree climb/Abseil | Canoeing | Ropes Course | Adventure Day (This is a day off site, examples include: caving in the Yorkshire Dales, a mountain day, paddling on a lake) | ||||
| Group F | Problem Solving | Bouldering + climbing wall/Tree climb/Abseil | Rocky Ramble/Hill Walk | Ropes Course | Canoeing | Adventure Day (This is a day off site, examples include: caving in the Yorkshire Dales, a mounain day, paddling on a lake) | ||||
* Variation to activities depending on centre visiting.
We tailor our packages so we can meet all your objectives, needs, budgets and groups sizes.
Day Visits
Our day visit programmes make excellent transition or reward days for classes or year groups, providing the same opportunities to learn, outside and explore. See below a sample of a day visit with Lancashire Outdoor Education.
Numbers: Example 59 + 6
Age: 6-8 year olds
Aims: To Learn about ourselves, others and the environment. To try new things outside of our comfort zone. To explore our potential and make lifelong memories
Arrival time: 9:30
Departure time: 4:30
| Morning | Afternoon | |
|---|---|---|
| Group A | Journey on a boat | Going on a Bear Hunt' theme around the grounds |
| Group B | Journey on a boat | Going on a Bear Hunt' theme around the grounds |
| Group C | Journey on a boat | Going on a Bear Hunt' theme around the grounds |
| Group D | Going on a Bear Hunt' theme around the grounds | Journey on a boat |
| Group E | Going on a Bear Hunt' theme around the grounds | Journey on a boat |
* Variation to activities depending on centre visiting.