We bring the very best school camps to you

Getting your school camp just right can be hard, but we can make it easy! By running a high-quality, accredited school camp within the grounds of your school, laying on the most engaging activities, and providing outstanding instructors, we can give you and your students the adventure experience of a lifetime – all for a much lower cost than a traditional school residential!

School camps run by The Outdoors People are designed for both primary and secondary schools. Our range of activities and their delivery are pitched according to the age of the pupils, and we structure our camp programmes with built-in flexibility so that the students and the school staff have time to enjoy the camping experience.

Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge

We hold an LOtC Quality Badge from the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.

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We're pledged to providing Brilliant Residentials.

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We link all of our camps to the National Curriculum.

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“The school’s ‘WOW’ moments are one example of the school’s commitment to providing pupils with inspirational and awe-inspiring events, such as a whole year group camping on the school field.”

- "Outstanding" OFSTED report

Classic Camp

Our popular 24 Hour Classic Camps are our iconic primary school camps. Exciting and educational group activities, an amazing campfire experience, and a night under canvas in our beautiful bell tents.

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Activity Camps

Perfect for schools that have less green space. Our Activity Camps focus on our educational group activities while still providing the development that comes from an overnight experience.

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Day Camps

Our shorter Day Camps are built to give your students a concentrated burst of excitement! Three of our educational groups activities with the option of adding Kin Ball and the campfire.

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Winter

Our Winter Residentials are a high-value, low-cost offering delivered over the winter months. The children “camp” in the school building and activities take place while warmed by a wood burning stove.

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Secondary Schools

Teamwork and life skills, woodsmoke, new knowledge and new experiences. Our Secondary School Camps are purpose built for older students and are tailored to your requirements.

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Why do schools choose our camps?

"This is a truly fantastic opportunity for everyone involved, the ethos of the camp really supported our school values of belonging, resilience, assurance, independence and no-limits! I saw so many of these being demonstrated by children and staff alike! A great reminder of why I chose to be a teacher in the first place!"

- Camp Feedback

Average 4.9 stars out of 5 in reviews from schools

Action-packed!

Eat bugs, start fires, put up your own tents, make hot chocolate from mud, sing at the campfire, eat marshmallows, outrun the kin-ball, survive and more!

We provide a full 24-hour camping experiences for schools. While we're careful to build some space into our programme so that the children have time to absorb and appreciate the experience, the rest of the day is filled with a wide range of engaging, exciting and educational activities with defined learning outcomes.

Defined Educational Outcomes

We specifically developed our programmes and activities to allow young people to learn and grow and we detail the ways our camps link to the National Curriculum. We also provide resources to help schools transfer what was learned back into their lesson planning.

Each of our activities comes with defined key learning outcomes and uses a structured learning and reviewing approach.

Depending on the programme you build with us, your children will learn about history, social awareness, the environment, sociology, geography, nutrition and physical education.

Develop Key Life Skills

Our programmes are tailored to focus on life-skills such as communication, listening, self-esteem, co-operation and leadership.

Children build and take down their own tents, take responsibility for their belongings, learn about cooking, work together to complete complex tasks and more.

Most importantly, our highly trained instructors are passionate about inspiring a love of life-long-learning in your students.

An instructor helps a student light a fire — Safe Adventure Camp

Outstanding Safety

We only work with trained and experienced instructors, and our superb team have delivered the very best adventure education all around the globe.

We make all of our risk assessments freely available to schools on our website and we undertake a detailed annual review of all our policies alongside ongoing risk assessment. All of our Camp Directors and Night Watch staff have high level first aid qualifications.

Because our programmes happen within school grounds, the children and your staff team are always within an environment that they know well and are never far from home.

All of this results in an outstanding safety record that we are very proud of.

Tailor made and inclusive

When schools book a camp with us, they are given the opportunity to tell us all about their ideal experience. We build our programme around your school day and adapt our activities to your desired learning outcomes.

Our programmes are built to be flexible and we'll always work to accommodate both your needs and your student's requirements.

By having adaptable programmes and activities, and delivering our camps within school grounds, we're able to create adventures that allow everyone to take part.

Exceptional Value and Exceptionally easy!

Because we come to you, most of the costs and hard work associated with a school residential are immediately minimised; and because we’re a nonprofit, you can be assured that you’re getting the best price possible.

With prices for our 24 hour camps starting at just £50 per person – or just £40 per person for our winter residentials – our school camp programmes cost much less than a traditional school residential experience and there's no need to arrange transport.

The demands on the free time of your staff and volunteers are massively reduced and parents have the peace of mind that comes from knowing their children are just around the corner.

What WE provide

Our stunning canvas bell tents for the whole camp, including teachers.
Wood for the campfire.
All the activities and equipment.
Highly trained instructors at a ratio of 1:15.
Sleeping mats for the children (and airbeds for the teachers!)
Marshmallows.
Hot drinks for staff during the campfire.
You can ask us to bring a professional caterer for your evening meal or we can deliver our Camp Food activity where the children prepare their own adventure rations.

What your school provides

Excited children that are ready to learn and have fun!
Happy teachers that are ready to support their students (bug-eating optional!).
We can bring a professional caterer for your evening meal or we can run our Camp Food activity. Most schools choose to be in charge of food for the camp, including for your teachers and for our staff team.
Children bring their own sleeping bags. We can purchase sleeping bags for you at a reduced price which you can keep or we will donate to charity.
Sole use of the school field.
Perfect weather!
24hr access to toilets & wash facilities.