Imaginative summer camps for children aged 8-16 ...

We think summer is a brilliant time for being creative, so on our Make and Create Superweek at Moor Park we put time aside each day to put some music on and get artistic!

We have expert led sessions offering help and instruction with crafts you might not have seen before as well as time to yourself or in small groups to explore the kind of art that you like to make. The art and craft Superweek in other years has been quite adventurous with it’s projects – there’s been land art which ended up in the local paper, plaster casts of people, tie dying, silk painting, sculpture, clothes and bag making, carnival-mask making for a big party, making a terracotta army and lots more. You’ll be able to take everything you make home to impress your friends and family.

Moor Park’s art department is really well equipped so we won’t we short of things to do. There’s loads of indoor and outdoor space for you to get creative – and don’t worry, you don’t need to be a fantastic artist to enjoy yourself, all you need is imagination!

Make and Create is for 8-14 year olds; 9th - 16th August.

Making use of the incredible facilities at Moor Park including the technology block, laboratories, and swimming pool, this week is designed for anyone interested in taking things apart and working out how they work, carrying out messy experiments, and being set scientific and technological problems, conundrums and challenges.

There will be experts on site to run workshops each day – previous Young Inventor Superweekers have built mechanical fish to race in the pool, dragonflies that flap in the sunlight, giant leaping frogs and rockets.

The workshop sessions will be for small groups at a time so there will always be someone there to help you, to answer your questions, or to engage in an engineering debate.

Young Inventors is for 8-14 year olds; 9th – 16th August.

If you fancy a particularly active holiday then we can most definitely recommend The Week With No Name at Bredenbury

As well as all the usual ATE fun and games, this holiday will have a focus on all things outdoorsy, active and sporty and will includes survival and bush craft, spy skills, team challenges, sports, much adventure and mud.

So there’ll be tournaments, leagues and competitions in games and sports you already know and those unique to ATE. There’ll be whole afternoons of tactical games in the woods where you’ll need to get camouflaged up and be at your very sneakiest.  We’ll do some of our own Bush Tucker Trials and learn about survival in the outdoors – if the weather was ok we could even make teepees and sleep outside!

Bredenbury is a fantastic venue for this Superweek as it comes with woods for mornings of orienteering, countless sports fields and pitches, an swimming pool in the woods, and a huge sports gym.

The Week With No Name is for 10 - 15 year olds; 9th - 16th August.

This holiday is especially for older Superweekers. We thought carefully about where to have this holiday and decided that Bredenbury Court should be home this year to what could potentially be some Superweekers’ very last Superweek.

This Superweek will be packed with as much ATE magic as is possible, and make sure that the last week of the 2012 summer holidays is one to remember. Because this is the older holiday, Superweekers will be revisiting their favourite ATE activities as well as being challenged by new ones and maybe even coming up with new fun things to add to the ATE repertoire and leave as their legacy!

This week will allow Superweekers more responsibility over the structure of the week, and will have emphasis on team building and group challenges.

The Final Fling is for 14-16 year olds; 17th-24th August.

Fancy a sleepover with fellow AQUILA readers? Think you can handle a whole week of AQUILA challenges? Would you like to meet the AQUILA team?

2012 will be the FOURTH annual AQUILA Adventure; a 7 day camp especially for AQUILA readers. If you get bored in the long summer holidays, this could be just the thing! We’ll be taking over Frank’s Place for a week long AQUILA adventure. It will be all the mischief, trickery and hocus pocus of an ATE Superweek, with a never-before-seen AQUILA theme.

Frank’s Place is a special Eco and Outdoor Centre so we’ll be doing lots of Ecological investigations, workshops and challenges as well as having a go on the rope courses, canoeing and climbing the amazing climbing wall.

There will be challenges, making and creating, stories, brain teasers, riddles and puzzles, themed evenings, competitions, and even the opportunity to write an article to be published in AQUILA. There will be special guests calling in throughout the week – who knows? We might even meet Astra, Polly Chrome and the team!

The AQUILA adventure is for 8 – 14 year olds; 9th – 16th August.

For more info about AQUILA check out ... www.aquila.co.uk

A musical written on a Superweek, about the Superweek, by the Superweek. Ambitious? If anyone can do it—the A-TEam can! Come and be part of a Superweek first. We’ll document our week of adventures in musical form in a special performance on the last day. No expertise needed! Just enthusiasm.

Our Superweek: the Musical is for 10-15 year olds; 17th  - 24th August.