Canalside Activity Centre schools programme

Staffing and safety

Canalside is a licensed outdoor activity centre and holds an Adventure Activities Licencing Authority (AALA) licence no L5565 . This is a mandatory requirement for outdoor activity centres that work with young people under the age of 18.

All staff are professionally qualified coaches and also active in their field of expertise. The centre under goes safety reviews on a regular basis, ensuring the overall safety of the facility and quality of programme delivered.

Primary and secondary schools programmes

The outdoor environment is an idea classroom to involve, challenge and provide exciting stimulating activity with real learning outcomes. Many of the schools that use our facility either work toward nationally recognised qualifications or in house awards.

Canalside works with pupils aged 9 and above. Our programme can be adapted to suit the need of the students. At the centre we deliver outdoor education and adventurous activities.

The programme has been developed to work with pupils from key stage 2 and the PHSE syllabuses right up to GCSE level in paddle sports. Our secondary schools programme is delivered both onsite here at Canalside and on the Tidal Thames with our partner centre Cremorne Riverside.

Our programme can be either skill specific, or multi activity based. The programme runs on a session basis to suit the needs of the school timetable. Pupils build on skill and experience over their time spent at the centre. Many of the techniques that are learnt through outdoor education become valuable life skills, learning to lift load safely, importance of good posture and warming up and down correctly before and after exercise.

The centre runs also youth club right through out the year. Many of our members come through our schools programmes and go on to develop their skills further within the youth club.