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Activity 14 – Cartoon My Walk

Activity 14 – Cartoon My Walk

| 26th June 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to illustrate a walk – either one that you’re going to go on today, or a walk that you have been on recently. You can enjoy this activity at home or at school, and it can be completed inside or outside, anything goes! Every
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Activity 13 – Orienteering Second Steps

Activity 13 – Orienteering Second Steps

| 19th June 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are taking your talent for orienteering to the next level, now that you’ve successfully mastered the basics. In the Second Steps challenge, the instructors are challenging you to draw and follow a dot map. This is going to be a little trickier than the shape map you
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Activity 12 – Orienteering First Steps

Activity 12 – Orienteering First Steps

| 12th June 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to learn one of the first steps towards become an orienteer, which is the art of drawing a map, and then charting your way across the map as you navigate through the territory before you. Orienteering requires good navigation skills, and navigation is a key
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Activity 11 – Lava Pool

Activity 11 – Lava Pool

| 5th June 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to cross a treacherous lava pool, stepping from rock to rock to avoid falling into a pool of molten lava! You’d better tread carefully or… BANG! you’ll sink beneath the lava and the volcano will erupt. That means back to the beginning for you! The
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Activity 10 – Pyramid

Activity 10 – Pyramid

| 29th May 2020 | 0 comments
This week, we’re travelling back in time to Ancient Egypt to try our hand at pyramid building. The instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to construct a pyramid yourself, and then imagine that you have to relocate it to avoid a sudden plague of locusts! Without breaking the key rules, how will you
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Activity 9 – Recycling Towers

Activity 9 – Recycling Towers

| 22nd May 2020 | 0 comments
Rather than taking your plastic and cardboard recycling out… build it up! This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to take on a big build using only recycling. If you wait until you have lots of recycling ready to be taken out to the bin, then rescue it on its way, you’ll
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Activity Week 8 – Manic Alphabet

Activity Week 8 – Manic Alphabet

| 15th May 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructors here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to work together in a team at high speed in a race that will test not only your knowledge of the alphabet, but also your agility, your fitness, and how you pull together as a team! The letters of the alphabet will be laid
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Activity Week 7 – Spider’s Web

Activity Week 7 – Spider’s Web

| 7th May 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructor team here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to climb through the holes in a spider’s web, without waking the spider! Watch out though as there are only so many times you can wobble the web before the spider will wake up and see you with one of her many, many
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Activities 1-6: Downloads

Activities 1-6: Downloads

| 4th May 2020 | 0 comments
We have been sharing an activity every week this Spring and you can follow the links below to access our first activities from Week 1 through to Week 6, in a single document you can download… Home Version – Download here School Version – Download here
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Activity Week 6 – Touch, don’t look!

Activity Week 6 – Touch, don’t look!

| 1st May 2020 | 0 comments
This week, the instructor team here at Thornbridge Outdoors are challenging you to work together with a partner to explore the world using your four senses other than sight. When one of you is blindfolded and can’t see anymore, how will your partner guide you about safely and steadily? And how will you identify the
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Casual Outdoor Education Instructor recruitment Oct 24

27th September 2024
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Job title: Outdoor Education Instructor Job type: Casual Salary: £30,825 pro rata Location: Great Longstone, near Bakewell, Derbyshire Closing date: 13 October 2024 Job details: Thornbridge Outdoors is Sheffield City Council’s outdoor learning centre located near Bakewell in the Peak District.  Our mission is ‘to widen the horizons of young people through real outdoor adventures

Outdoor Activity Instructor recruitment Oct 24

27th September 2024
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We’re excited to be recruiting a full time, permanent Outdoor Activity Instructor to join us providing outdoor adventures in the wonderful Peak District. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated, empathetic and adaptable outdoor instructor to share their love of the outdoors with our clients on a permanent, full time basis. Job title: Outdoor

Discounted Hill & Moorland Leader and Lowland Leader Course Opportunities – March 23

20th December 2022
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We are an approved provider for Mountain Training’s nationally recognised Lowland Leader and Hill & Moorland Leader qualifications. To encourage new leaders to share their love of the outdoors with others, we are offering half price places on our March 23 courses: Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th March – Lowland Leader training – £70 (down
A video of who we are and what we offer

A video of who we are and what we offer

19th November 2021
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We’ve put together a short video highlighting the main role of Thornbridge Outdoors – Widening the horizons of young people through read outdoor adventures in the Peak District. Please take a look and share it with your friends.

Back on track!

30th August 2021
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It’s exciting to have a refreshed staff team working with our first autumn school groups this week and feels like the right time for an update: Much needed school residentials Despite the sterling efforts of parents and school staff there’s no doubt that many children have missed opportunities during the pandemic.  We feel now, more

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