Bushcraft Residential Trips

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Bring your children back to nature with a Bushcraft trip for schools

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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!
S Reed, Year 6 Teacher, Millennium Primary School
Bushcraft Trip

All-year round Bushcraft Residential Trips

At Rootd, we run our bushcraft adventures all year round so you can easily fit them into the busy school calendar. Bushcraft trips can be used as a way of developing key skills, learning new topics or just getting the children out into nature. Our flexible accommodation options mean that whatever the season you can join us on a bushcraft residential trip. Our bell tents are a popular choice in the warmer months, and our woodland pods and indoor lodges provide cosy accommodation, all with sheltered outdoor areas and indoor eating spaces.

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 dayActivities
BreakfastCereal selection, toast, yoghurt, pastries + fruit juice.
Foraging and Wild CookingLearn the practicual uses of foraging wild foods through making your own wild garlic pesto or wildflower cordial.
LunchPicnic 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 CookingRefuel after your day in the woods with food cooked over an open fire!
Camo & ConcealmentDiscover the art of blending in to your surroundings with traditional techniques of camouflage and concealament
CampfireExperience the morale-boosting effect of a campfire in the woods as you sing and share talents under the stars
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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

Bushcraft residential trips for schools close to London

When you choose a Rootd Bushcraft Residential Trips, there are no long coach journeys with children cooped up for hours. Our woodland location is conveniently close to London.

Our Hertfordshire activity centre

Located just north of Watford, set in 95 acres of meadows and natural woodland, it’s within easy reach of the M1 and M25.  Quick travel times means more time spent enjoying and exploring the outdoors.

Accommodation for all seasons

With tents for six and a fun chill out area, our bell tent village is a great option for spring and summer. Throughout autumn and winter, children love getting cosy in our fully equipped woodland pods and lodges.