During the Spring and Autumn school season we offer exciting day and residential programnmes at Escot Education. Please click on the schools link button on the left for more info. Alternatively you can telephone 01404 822188 ext 2 for more info.
Located just 15 minutes from Exeter, Escot Education at Escot Park offers day and residential sessions during the spring, summer and autumn terms. Our Education facilities include Greenwood Centre for exciting day programmes and A Wild Night in the Woods and Escot Expedition residential programmes.
Yurt Village, also provides the perfect place to enjoy residential outdoor learning programmes for school children.
1 day, 1 night residential £42.00 (Yurts only)
2 days, 1 night £57.00
2 days, 2 nights £77.00
3 days, 2 nights £92.00
4 days, 3 nights £127.00
5 days, 4 nights £167.00
Day programmes at the Greenwood Centre are run by Alan Bruford, Escot’s Education Officer and his experienced staff.
Costs per child for day programmes are: £10.00 high season (£150 min) and £9.00 low season (£130 min).£1 discount for groups of 50 or more for general activity or bush craft day (offer does not include living history).
Living history day programmes also run at the Greenwood centre in our Anglo Saxon Village and cost £12 per child per day (year round).
Session plans for programmes at the greenwood centre can be designed to compliment topics being studied at school. We run 3 types of programmes: General activities, forest school activities and a living history. Please email or telephone the education office for more information about these topics.
For Wild night in the woods and Escot expeditions, please see further down.
Yurt Village can accommodate up to 56 children/staff per week. The village comes complete with 4 gender-specific sleeping yurts each with a capacity of 14 children in comfortable bunk beds. There are also 2 beds in the main 28ft yurt for staff who wish to sleep in this area. The site has powerful hot showers and flushing toilets. There is a fully equipped kitchen, with a fridge for teachers. We also have a large wood burning stove in the main yurt, for colder spring/autumn nights,. There is a large playing field area surrounding the yurts, perfect for free time games or sports. We also have and an outdoor campfire circle for you to use at your leisure.
Our schools’ programme connects children with the natural world through learning experiences that simply can’t be found in textbooks. They strengthen community spirit through team challenges and increase their understanding of the natural world through guided, hands-on exploration and by discovering fun ways to learn about plants and animals.
We also offer exciting evening programmes for you to choose from, including bat detecting, astronomy night hikes or a campfire with stories and marshmallow toasting.
We offer multiple activities which will help students learn how to work as a team, solve problems and enjoy each other’s company. We use giant jigsaws, giant skis, scavenger hunts, imaginative scenarios and games to help students better understand the meaning and importance of team work.
This area of study allows students to learn about food webs and adaptations.
Activities can include: feeding the wild boar, visiting the red squirrels, watch an otter scatter feed and chat with the ranger. We facilitate student-led skits and hikes in the woodlands and also run bird of prey sessions where students enjoy unique and exciting activities with Escot’s falconers.
The activities in this subject provide students with an insight into survival in the wild. These fun activities may include: fire making, shelter building, campfire cooking, bread making, whittling, care and use of tools and a swamp walk if requested.
The swamp walk is a 100-metre meander in bare feet through the mire. It is cold, smelly, seriously manky and about 2 feet deep in places finishing with a wash in a pond . It is quite a serious challenge for some and is universally remembered as the best part of the day.
This topic allows students to delve into the past and enjoy activities focused
around the time of the Anglo Saxons. Activities may include: wattle and daub,
lighting fires, making pennies, bread making, spoon making, forging, milling,
pole lathing, splitting logs and dressing up.
Escot staff will supervise students between 9am-4pm daily, then again during the evening Programme until 8.30pm. Our cook will serve breakfast and dinner, however we do ask that the children assist with clean up after all meals. This can be done by school teachers assigning different groups to certain meal times. Free time and overnight supervision is the responsibility of the school teachers.
During Escot’s opening hours you are free to use the parks facilities, however when the park closes at 6pm, there is no access unless accompanied by an Escot staff member. You can however visit any of the surrounding wetlands, woodlands or walks which have access to the general public.
Yurt Village can accommodate up to 56 children/staff per week. The village comes complete with 4 gender-specific sleeping yurts each with a capacity of 14 children in comfortable bunk beds. There are also 2 beds in the main 28ft yurt for staff who wish to sleep in this area. The site has powerful hot showers and flushing toilets. There is a fully equipped kitchen, with a fridge for teachers. We also have a large wood burning stove in the main yurt, for colder spring/autumn nights,. There is a large playing field area surrounding the yurts, perfect for free time games or sports. We also have and an outdoor campfire circle for you to use at your leisure.
A Wild Night in the Woods is a one night residential programme focused on forest school/bush craft activities and is run by Escot’s Education Officer, Alan Bruford and his experienced staff . Children make shelters to sleep in, cook over an open fire and enjoy activities such as environmental arts and greenwood crafts. We can accommodate up to 60 children for a wild night in the woods and it is always finished off with a swamp walk on the second day.
The Escot Expedition offers a longer “wild night in the woods” type programme for schools. The expedition can run for 2, 3 or 4 nights in duration in the woods and fields at Reg land for up to 35 key stage 2 students.
The programme operates from May to Sept during term time and is self contained at Reg Land with all programme activities being run within the surrounding woodlands and fields. Teachers can organise for their students to visit the Escot grounds at some point during their trip to visit the maze and drop slide.
Bush craft: Shelter building, open fire cooking, fire lighting, water purification, personal hygiene and camp housekeeping, tracking and environmental foraging awareness, observation and analysis. Tools and equipment use and maintenance. Orienteering: Accurate use of compass and bearings and map reading Environmental Arts and Crafts: Whittling and spoon carving, dream catchers and badges, sculptures, ephemera, storytelling, basketry and pole lathing. Conservation Tasks: Clearing brambles and weeds, bug and animal shelters and habitat provision and improvement. Planting trees, shrubs and herbs, tree and plant care and protection. Archery and evening programmes
Escot staff are present throughout the entire trip and will stay overnight in the woods with you and the children. Supervision for this trip is very much a joint effort between all adults.
We have completed risk assessments for all our activities and will email them, along with emergency procedures and other important health and safety documents. All our staff are CRB checked and we are registered with Ofsted (EY453230).
We offer excellent educational programmes at very competitive prices in an environment which is safe, fun and unique. Your students will remember their visit to Escot for years to come.
To book or find out more please telephone the education office on 01404 822188 ext 2 or email [email protected].