School Residential Trip to the Lake District

A residential school trip to the Lake District offers your students the unforgettable opportunity to try a number of adventure sports, building their resilience, improving their self-confidence and developing their teamwork and communication skills!

The Lake District is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in North West England. It’s famous for its spectacular scenery, which boasts lakes, forests and mountains, which are known locally as fells. Its beauty has inspired a number of famous authors and poets, including Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin and William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets.

On your residential school trip to the Lake District, your group will stay at the YMCA Lakeside, an accommodation and activity centre purpose-built to cater for school and youth groups. Under the excellent guidance of their fully-qualified instructors, your students will have the opportunity to try a number of adventure sports and activities, including canoeing, kayaking, raft building, sailing, ghyll scrambling, high ropes and archery.

This will be an unforgettable school trip for your students. The opportunity to enjoy new experiences will give their confidence a huge boost. And they’ll develop their resilience as they learn new skills. Many of the activities will also require them to develop their teamwork and communication skills.

Suggested Itinerary

Day 1

Morning

Depart for the Lake District

Afternoon

Arrive at accommodation Half-day activity (1 x 3hr or 2 x 1.5hr) e.g. canoeing or kayaking

Evening

Evening meal at accommodation

Day 2

Morning

Breakfast at accommodation Half-day activities (1x 3hr or 2 x 1.5hr) e.g. raft building or sailing

Afternoon

Lunch at accommodation Half-day activities (1 x 3hr or 2 x 1.5hr) e.g. ghyll scrambling

Evening

Evening meal at accommodation Or choose to add on evening campfire experience

Day 3

Morning

Breakfast at accommodation Half-day activities (1 x 3hr or 2 x 1.5hr) e.g. high ropes or archery

Afternoon

Begin transfer home Arrive back at school

12 hours of outdoor activities, e.g. canoeing, kayaking, raft building, sailing, ghyll scrambling, high ropes and archery
2 nights' full-board accommodation
3 days' executive coach hire and driver throughout
Detailed info pack
Free staff place ratio 1:10
Itinerary planning service
Itinerary planning service
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Accommodation

YMCA Lakeside

YMCA Lakeside sits within 400 acres of private woodland on the shores of Lake Windermere and is one of the largest outdoor activity centres in Europe. There is plenty of excellent accommodation here for school groups. The new Stoller Campus boasts 250 beds, and there are another 200 beds across the other accommodations here. As well as accommodation, the YMCA Lakeside also offers nearly 50 land and water-based activities, including kayaking, fell walking, archery and caving.

Educational Activities

Raft Building in the Lake District

Your group will work together to build a raft out of wooden poles, barrels and ropes.

Cultural Activities

Alton Towers

The UK’s biggest theme Park with tonnes of fun and thrilling rides and attractions to enjoy. We can also arrange

Archery in the Lake District

Your students will be given a basic introduction to bows and arrows and will learn basic archery skills under the

Canoeing in the Lake District

Hop into one of the centre’s 2 and 3-person Canadian canoes, or one of the 15-person large canoes and take

Ghyll Scrambling in the Lake District

A mix of rock climbing and caving using the stream bed, ghyll scrambling is a real adventure sport.

High Ropes in the Lake District

The high ropes is a real challenge, both physically and mentally. Students will not only take on the course themselves,

Kayaking in the Lake District

Your students will jump into a single-seater kayak in one of the centre’s bays on Lake Windermere, where they’ll get

Sailing in the Lake District

Your students will learn to sail a dingy or stable boat under the guidance of the centre’s fully-qualified instructors in

Supporting you every step of the way

Creating your perfect trip

Your quote will be put together by an experienced Tour Adviser who’ll be an expert in the subject area and will know the destination really well too. They’ll work with you to create a trip to suit your group’s needs and meet your learning objectives.

Launching your trip to parents and students

The next step is to get your trip approved and then get students signed up to it. Our ‘Trip Launch Pack’ will help you with this step. This is full of resources (all free to download) designed to make your life easier at this crucial point in the trip planning process.

After you’ve booked

Once you’ve booked, your dedicated Itinerary Coordinator will start work on the finer details. They’ll make sure your itinerary makes the most of your time and they’ll take on most of the admin tasks for your trip (freeing you up to do what you do best – teach).

Support while you’re away

From lost property to properly lost, we’ll always be on the end of the phone while you’re out on the trip. You’ll get a final info pack before you go, as well as access to all your trip documents via the Vamoos app.

After your trip

We’ll ask you for feedback, so we can improve our service. Let’s start planning your next trip too, so parents have plenty of time to pay (and so it’s less stressful for you). And don’t forget to head to our resources hub to continue the learning back in the classroom.