What Is A Day Camp?
Outstanding in-school activity days!
Our 24 Hour Classic Camps are amazing, but they can be a big commitment for school staff or for younger year groups. Taking place over a school day or a slightly longer nine-to-five day, our educational activity Day Camps are a simpler and lower cost option that still provide outstanding outcomes for your students.
“Thank you so much for another successful camp. Yet again, you have provided an exceptional service. I would highly recommend this experience to any school. The Outdoor People can provide an opportunity for children that we as a school cannot do.”
To learn more about how all of our Camp and Group activities tie into the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum, click here.
School Day Camp
A School Day Camp runs for the duration of your school day and is built around your usual break and lunch times. Like all of our camps, the day starts with raising the children’s Camp Flag before moving onto an exciting rotation of three Group Activities.
To view a sample programme, click here.
Long Day Camp
Our Long Day Camps add in our energetic Kin Ball activity and round out your day with that amazing campfire experience that no camp is complete without! Running from 9 am to 5 pm and built around the timings of your school day, these are our most popular Day Camp option.
To view a sample programme, click here.
Camp Activities
Our Camp Activities are the core of our camp programmes and travel with us to every school.
The opening ceremony includes raising the decorated camp flag!
Every school receives a blank flag around two months before their camp. The children decorate their flag ready to raise high above their camp during the opening ceremony. Many schools go on to make their flag part of a wall display.
The mighty Kin Ball!
On our Long Day Camps, every school battles with the mighty Kin Ball in our giant run-around games!
Songs, stories and marshmallows!
A critical element on any Long Day Camp is the campfire! Marshmallows roasted on our Mega-Marshmallow-Maker, the loudest songs we can sing, and, finally, interactive stories around the fire before home-time!
Bespoke Group Activities
Before your camp, we work with you to design a bespoke programme of three educational, daytime, Group Activities themed around bushcraft, survival, and teamwork. These three Group Activities pair with our Camp Activities to build your day camp. Our most popular activity options are below but we can create many more to meet your requirements. All of our activities are delivered by our highly trained and experienced staff.
The structure of these lower cost, shorter, camps means that we sometime have to offer a reduced range of activity options.
“Thank again for another great camp! This was our third camp with you and the whole experience goes from strength to strength. Great to see familiar faces coming back! We have already booked for the next one!”
bug-buns and blazes
One of our core bushcraft activities. Highly popular with teachers, children, and the camera person!
Firelighting: using a sparking fire-steel, everyone will set cotton-wool ablaze!
Bush-tucker challenge!
Learning to make pancakes over the open fire (bug seasoning optional!)
Key Learning outcomes
Overcoming fears during the bush-tucker challenge
Confidence, excitement and perseverance, brought about by fire lighting
Self-sufficiency and life-skills by working together to follow our easy-to-learn giant pancake recipe and then do the washing up!
Understanding fire
Understanding other cultures
life skills and team building
Designed to use mobile and engaging activities to foster co-operation, communication and initiative. Our unique and stand-out life skills challenges will stretch and develop every team.
Key Learning Outcomes
How to break communication down into its components
The effect of an individuals approach on the rest of the team
Kolb's learning cycle of Plan-Do-Review
The importance of line-of-sight in good communication
water purification
A core bushcraft activity. Work in pairs to build a purifying filter able to take on the muddiest water The Outdoors People can make! Get it right and you'll get to make some of the tastiest hot chocolate you'll ever drink.
Key learning outcomes
Understanding the three things that can make water unsafe and how to remove them
Confidence to take on seemingly impossible challenges
What is carbon?
Drinking hot chocolate!
Crash and Carry
Your plane has crashed in the jungle!
Gather supplies!
Learn to help an injured teammate!
Build a shelter!
Survive!
Key learning outcomes
How to summon help at home, at school and in the wild
How to keep yourself safe when someone is injured
How to look after someone while waiting for help
Work together to move a casualty
Make survival shelters using tarps, trees and whatever you can find!
Pendants and Pump Drills
Bronze age Skills – Pendants AND Pump Drills
Using ancient tools, students will learn how to drill their own personalised stone Survival Pendant and braid a cord for it that doubles as a useful tool in emergencies!
Key Learning Outcomes
A personalised stone Survival Pendant to keep
An understanding of pre-bronze age techniques for drilling and cord making
Perseverance and resilience
Teamwork and co-operation
Key stage 2
Traditional Fire Lighting
The classic and most important survival skill of all. Students will work in small teams to try and make smoke the old fashioned way using a friction-drill, a traditional flint-and-steel set, the sun, and even our giant 15 person strap-drill!
This is a more advanced session than learning to use a modern fire-steel on Bug Buns and Blazes!
Key Learning Outcomes
Experiencing and understanding several traditional ways of making fire in the wild
Perseverance and resilience!
Co-operation
The principles of survival
Year 4 and up
Bush-Baking
Creating tasty food in the wilderness is an important skill!
Designed as a progression for children who have done Bug Buns and Blazes! on a previous camp, on this session the children will each make their own traditional bannock bread bun cooked over an open fire.
Key Learning Outcomes
Basic baking skills
A tasty bannock bread to eat!
A recipe card to take home and use again and again
Survival Bracelets
Learn to weave a versatile and attractive survival bracelet to take home!
key learning outcomes
Perseverance and resilience
Helping each other
How to improvise with paracord in the wild
A souvenir of your camping experience
Please note that this session costs an extra £2.50 per person to cover material costs
Land Art
Land Art
Using clay and found materials, students make amazing art as individuals and as a team.
Key Learning Outcomes
What plants and animals live around your school?
How much of a litter problem is there in the area?
Work together to produce your art
A handcrafted clay medallion to decorate and keep
Have fun!
Key Stage 1
Camp Food
Eat like explorers and astronauts! Using Adventure Ration Packs, students choose and prepare their own main evening meal and dessert with hot water from our wood-burning volcano-stoves.
Key Learning Outcomes
How dehydrated food works
Trying new things!
Self sufficiency
Key stage 2
Please note this session costs an extra £7.50 per person to cover costs
Den Building
Build colourful survival shelters ready to survive the horrors of a British summer! This is a simpler session than Crash And Carry, more suited to younger year groups.
Key Learning Outcomes
Teamwork
How to keep warm and keep the rain off!
Fun!
Key Stage 1
Natural Navigation
Learn the principles of navigation and run around a lot!
key Learning Outcomes
What is north?
How to find north using the sun, the stars, plants, and other methods
What is a compass?
Work together to build a functional magnetic compass
What is a map?
Learn the basics of map reading
Key stage 2 - this is a more academic activity than many of our sessions and is not suited to all groups
Still not sure what to pick?
No problem! Our Classic Camp programme is made up of our three core bushcraft activities:
Bug Buns and Blazes!
Water Purification
Crash and Carry
Calendar
You can check our calendar to view our live availability or you can contact us for more information or a quote.
Downloads
Our School Camp Risk Assessments, Camp Information and other downloads are all available here.
