Happy Sunny days!

Tuesday has seen the groups range far and wide across North Wales- up the mountains, along the coast, through the narrow and winding gorges. Experiencing new environments and broadening experiences is what outdoor education is all about! The laughing and happy voices ringing around the centre are certainly testament to that!

You can almost feel the heat off the rocks

A great day to get wet

overcoming fears at Blast shelter

Busy Days

We're back!
There are still some technical issues to sort out, but hopefully we should be able to post most of this week!
After a very long coach journey, we had a lot of very excited children arrive at Blue Peris last night, as well as another group arriving at the OSL down the road. The rain has given way to sunshine and we've had groups out doing lots of activities in the mountains, the lakes and on the coast.

Sea Level Traversing at Cable Bay

Rock Climbing at Yellow Wall

Gorge Walking in the Afon Ddu

Canoeing on the beautiful Lyn Padarn

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We are sorry there have been no recent up dates to the blog. Unfortunately we are having technical issues in the process that allows us to place posts.

We hope to be back up and running soon.

Many thanks for your patience

Cofiwch Tryweryn

A memorable day today, with a trek out to Canolfan Tryweryn white water centre, but did you know that this unique facility only exists due to the creation of Llyn Celyn reservoir. This was created in the 1960s to help supply water to big cities over the border, leading to the death of the community of Capel Celyn, when all the residents were moved out to flood the valley.

Today water is released into the Afon Tryweryn to control water levels in the Dyfrdwy (aka Dee) downstream, into which the Tryweryn flows. This does mean that during these releases, that there is plenty of water in the river for all sorts of splashing on the white water rafts.

Splash no. 1

Splash no. 2

Getting ready for Splash no. 3

Bit more of a dunking than a splash this time.

All splashing together.

I DO like Mondays

Summer is here at last, blink and you'll miss it. Taking full advatage of the weather today, out there looking for adventure.

Kayaking on Llyn Padarn at Blue Peris Outdoor Education Centre

Water's lovely, jump in!-Coasteering at Porth Dafach

Getting to grips with the steepness., whilst coasteering on our outdoor education visit to North Wales

A spot of island hopping, In North Wales whilst coasteering 

A quick dip.

Rock!

More rock!

Even more rock! whilst at Blue Peris outdoor education centre in North Wales

End of a Great Week

Glorious sunshine and high spirit's were in full flow on the last day of the course. The boys and girls continued their activity rotations so that everyone got a chance to experience a mine, climb, canoe, and a tough day on a mountain. After chatting to the students at the end of the week the mining adventures proved to be the most popular activity. Its not often that you get to take an underwater boat trip!

As an outdoor education centre we are always looking for our students to take away meaningful lessons and experiences which they can utilise in other aspects of life. During the end of course review the students reflected on the things which they enjoyed but also found challenging during the week. Referring to one of the course aims of 'To learn how to work and live with others', one the boys said that he found it 'challenging  to live with other people who were messy', but this was resolved by 'talking to each other and agreeing on who should do which job'. Furthermore, all of the students agreed that the aim of 'Learning through experience' was a great way to try new things which may have looked scary to start with.

At the top of Cnicht 

Sun cream on and ready to go

Canoe's also make great rafts to race in 

Boating in the Mine

All Change

The weather in North Wales is never predictable, even heading into June. Monday saw some  incredible rain and wind batter the centre and the surrounding mountains, which left us all wondering what impact it would have on the groups arriving on Monday evening!
Luckily, we are able to accommodate such extremes ( you really have to here!) and Tuesday saw a total of six groups from year 8 & 9 taking part in outdoor activities in and around North Wales with Blue Peris Mountain Centre. The children managed to fit quite a lot into their first day at the centre, as you can see from the pictures below. The weather looks to continue to improve, ,which should provide more outdoor education opportunities as the week goes on.

Canoeing on Lyn Padarn

The climbing groups really put a lot of effort in!

Happy on the hill!

The rain made for some spectacular waterfalls.

We even managed to find some water in the mines!