Activities

Games Pack
A whole cupboard full of fun: rounders, tag rugby, footballs, badminton, tug of war, team parachutes, giant Jenga, board games etc

£20 per stay
Go to Check Availability and select Extras to book.

Soft Archery 

Introduce young children to archery in a fun and safe way - 6 sets available to book for self-delivery.

These sets are great fun and come with an easy to follow set-up and procedure documentation for leaders. Each set is £10 and comes with 4 arrows and a bow. Soft Archery sets can be added as an extra when reserving your dates online. This is a self-delivered activity with leaders' guide for instructions. Watch this video

£10 per set (6 sets available)
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Media Pack

Everything you need to play movies, show a presentation, have a karaoke night and play some music. Media package includes:

55" 4K LED Smart TV (Panasonic TX-55FX700B) fixed in Ibbett room (HDMI lead provided), DVD player, projector (Samsung SP-M250) and Sony speakers, Yamaha keyboard, karaoke, white screen 7ft pull-up and portable trolley with locking wheels, power extension cable, One flip chart with A1 paper.

£30 per stay
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Tai Chi 

Start or end the day with Tai Chi led by a qualified instructor. 90 mins in or outdoors with up to 30 in a group. Delivery times flexible subject to availability. 

Top 10 Tai Chi Benefits for Children

£150 per session (90 mins)
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Orienteering 

A complete introductory orienteering activity package for schools. 

Call us on 01234 720726 or email us at admin@chellington.org to find out more.

Chellington Quiz 

Free educational resource for exploring the site inside and out.

Call us on 01234 720726 or email us at admin@chellington.org to find out more.

Harrold-Odell Country Park 

With spectacular views from the Centre, enjoy the walk to this Green Flag water park with 144 acres of beauty and tranquillity.  

Find out more about the park

 http://www.hocp.co.uk/

Forest School

Choose from a variety of forest skills, shelter building, fire lighting, wood craft, learning about local trees and wildlife surrounding the centre. Taught by experieced, fully insured tutors, groups of 15 are best but we can arrange a day to split bigger groups between activities. Half Day (2.5 hours) - £255

Full Day (5 hour session) - £330 
includes two tutors and all materials

Go to Check Availability and select Activities to reserve or call us on 01234 720726. 

Archery

A fun and educational activity, led by a qualified and fully insured archery coach.

Archery has many benefits: it's a great way to focus, learning how to tune out distractions; it improves core strength, arms, hands and chest; it's good exercise, it  improves confidence and it's also great fun. After coaching, we offer mini tournaments and history of archery.
Half day (2.5 hours) - £275
Full day (5 hours)  - £300
Price includes tutor and all equipment.
Groups of 15 are best but we can arrange splitting bigger groups between activities.

Go to Check Availability and select Activities to reserve or call us on 01234 720726. 

Instructor led outdoor team activities including, boxing, tug-of-war, team activities and more.  

An instructor led outdoor activities including, dodgeball, tug of war, tag rugby, boxing, team activities and more. Whole day or half day options available.

Go to Check Availability and select Activities to reserve or call us on 01234 720726.

Animal Encounters with Teaching Talons

Enjoy a fantastic collection of friendly, exotic and companion animals guided by experienced animal handlers - an excellent way to add something different to a residential that's fun and educational.

For schools and youth groups, there's a variety of topics to choose from including: Diet, Habitat, Adaptation, Classification, Natural Behaviour, Rainforest Animals, Nocturnal Animals, Mini Beasts/Invertebrates. 

For half day workshops, choose either 'Discover Dinosaurs' or 'Awesome Animals' or combine the two for a full day booking.  

Groups can be up to 30 in size, risk assessments are available. Specfic topics you have in mind can always be discussed.

50 min session - £120
Half day (2.5 hours) - £300
Whole day (5 hours teaching time) - £500
Prices include two presenters and all materials. 

For more information see: http://www.teachingtalons.co.uk

Go to Check Availability and select Activities to reserve or call us on 01234 720726. 

Mini Map Makers 

Learn all about maps with these inspiring workshops run by Alice, a professional cartographer with a backfround in geology, who launched #GettingChildrenMapping to help teachers and children understand all about maps. 

Available workshops (group size 30):

Cartography for STEAM - ½ Day (3 hours) - £270
- Science: Understand the geological setting from 165ma – importance for local mining, technology and engineering – Chellington Trig Pillar, local mining and extraction.
- Art: Landscape drawing and colour the landscape
- Maths: Importance of scale and space
- Suitable for ages 7-18 

cARTography - ½ Day (3 hours) - £246
- Draw/paint 2 different landscapes then draw/paint them as a plan map
- Collect small drawings of interesting flowers/trees/nature/structures/buildings
- Make a poster for the Chellington Centre, highlighting its location, scenery and heritage
- Looking at the local map
- Suitable for year 2 and upwards

Symbol Spot - ½ Day (3 hours) - £246
- Sketch CC landscape
- Walk to Chellington Trig and Harrold Bridge, collecting information on points/lines, areas and names on the way
- Symbol Spot around CC

Go to Check Availability and select Activities to reserve or call us on 01234 720726. 

Art Workshops

Options include printing, sculpture, painting, mask making, collage, clay modelling, sgraffito, wax/ink and more. 

Anne-Marie offers tailored workshops to cover themes and or topics that you'd like to focus on, delivering workshops of felt making, printing, sculpture, painting, clay modelling, willow weaving, mask making collage, wax and ink, and sgraffito. 

Half day (2.5 hours) - £250 

Go to Check Availability and select Activities to reserve or call us on 01234 720726.