Bushcraft Residential Trips
Bring your children back to nature with a Bushcraft trip for schools
A Rootd bushcraft trip connects your primary and secondary school pupils with the outdoors and nature. With flexible choices of one, two or three-night bushcraft residential trips or a bushcraft day trip we offer options to suit the objectives and budget of any school.
Our bushcraft experiences are tailored to meet the needs of your students and their year group. Every activity develops the skills you’re looking for back in the classroom: resilience, confidence, and problem solving. For many, the highlight is singing around the campfire, building a shelter, and experiencing the fun of a back-to-nature experience.
Shane was really knowledgeable and we all had loads of fun and learnt so much. Amazing!
All-year round Bushcraft Residential Trips
A typical day on a rootd bushcraft trip
By encouraging children to try activities outside of their comfort zone and believe in their own abilities, our residential bushcraft trip programmes give children a real sense of achievement, an increased sense of confidence and above all a chance to shine!
| Time of day | Activities |
|---|---|
| Breakfast | Cereal selection, toast, yoghurt, pastries + fruit juice. |
| Foraging and Wild Cooking | Learn the practicual uses of foraging wild foods through making your own wild garlic pesto or wildflower cordial. |
| Lunch | Picnic in the woods. |
| Survival Fire building & Signal fires Knife Skills - Carving Tent Pegs | Work together to build the ultimate woodland shelter. Learn how to safely use a fire-steel, and build a campfire as you apply practical survival skills, using raised tripods to create signal fires Develop independence and confidence through knife skills as you learn to carve your own tent pegs to take home. |
| Woodland Cooking | Refuel after your day in the woods with food cooked over an open fire! |
| Camo & Concealment | Discover the art of blending in to your surroundings with traditional techniques of camouflage and concealament |
| Campfire | Experience the morale-boosting effect of a campfire in the woods as you sing and share talents under the stars |
Example Bushcraft programmes
What to expect from your Bushcraft Residential Trip
The fun starts the minute you arrive. We offer a fantastic range of activities where your students can learn new skills, challenge themselves and have the ultimate bushcraft experience.
Children will learn:
- Survival skills
- Fire lighting
- Shelter building
- Cooking on campfires
- Animal tracking
- Different woodland species
- Teamwork, resilience and creativity
