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Note due to time restraints there is a limit on the type and number of activities available for one day retreats.
 Brown Bog Team Tasks
- Attributes/Benefits
- A series of 15 minute team building tasks located in brown bog wood
- Develops communication, planning, task focus & time management skills
- A natural bonding exercise that enhances relationships in a team
- Everyone can take part regardless of age or ability
- Fun & dirty
- Challenging both mentally & physically
- Never to be forgotten
Open Canoeing & Kayaking
- Attributes/Benefits
- Skill based
- Opportunity for both personal development & achievement
- Facilitates bonding between class groupings
- Wilderness experience
- Unique lesson in local geography & history
- Facilitates the emergence of hidden talents/sources of enjoyment
Gorge Walking
- Attributes/Benefits
- Walking upstream, climbing over small waterfalls and embracing river habitats on the way.
- Adventurous activity
- Opportunity for both personal development & achievement
- Facilitates bonding between class groupings
- Wilderness experience
- Unique lesson in local geography & history
Raft Building
- Attributes/Benefits
- A team activity, where participants use raw materials to build a raft and make their way across a stretch of water.
- Develops teamwork
- Improves co-ordination
- Encourages planning
- Fosters communication skills
- Teaches overall project management.
Banana Boating
- Attributes/Benefits
- This activity is often used as a reward activity.
- Fosters teamwork
- Encourages uptake of swimming as a life skill.
- Brings a Wow!/feel-good factor.
Field Studies including River Studies & Woodland Studies
- Attributes/Benefits
- An important aspect of the Centre’s environmental policy.
- Complements the work of Primary and Post-Primary schools by linking in with modules of the Geography, History and Science curricula.
- Provides a history of Dartrey Estate and Dartrey Heritage through woodland walks or canoe paddles
- Teaches environmental care and waste management
- Provides a practical knowledge base of Dartrey Woodland habitats and Dromore river habitats
- Engenders a love of the environment
Camping & Camp craft
- Attributes/Benefits
- Camping & good camp craft is the ideal activity at Tanagh to meet Outdoor Education objectives. Canoe camping expeditions are run as part of programmes designed for the visiting groups.
- Fosters self-reliance
- Encourages teamwork
- Generates appreciation of the environment
- Provides a vehicle for other activities.
Hill walking
- Attributes/Benefits
- Physical activity
- Introduction to navigational skills.
- Electronic Orienteering
- Attributes/Benefits
- Fixed orienteering courses of varying ability are run in Dartrey Wood. Orienteering may be delivered in the form of a race by running the course, using mountain bikes or canoeing to locate the control points.
- Develops map-reading skills as aid to navigation
- Develops organisation skills
- Provides a real sense of adventure
Indoor Climbing Wall
- Attributes/Benefits
- This rises to 40ft and is built onto an internal wall.
- Provides the basis for a new skill i.e. climbing.
- Improves flexibility
- Aids dexterity
- Encourages forward planning
- Engenders trust
- Creates challenge.
Archery
- Attributes/Benefits
- Can be used as an individual or team event.
- Helps concentration
- Improves numeric skills
- Develops hand – eye co-ordination
- Provides an opportunity for the less active
Assault Course
- Attributes/Benefits
- A fun team-building activity which involves negotiating a series of linked obstacles.
- Individual event or team exercise.
- All round physical activity
- Improves balancing skills.
- Adds priceless synergy to team and group dynamics
- Challenges fear
Aerial Runway
- Attributes/Benefits
- An exercise of trust & good fun. Participants slide from a platform with the aid of a harness and rope mechanism.
- Teaches the technical aspects of the equipment that is used in vertical sports
- Encourages the trust factor
- Provides an opportunity for fun and enjoyment
Mountain Biking
- Attributes/Benefits
- In the natural beauty of the extensive forest paths in Dartrey Wood.
- Introduces the mechanics of biking and the technology of the production of bikes
- Teaches the new skill of biking
- Excellent aerobic activity
- Encourages healthier lifestyle
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