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 Bedstone 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 and lots more. You’ll be able to take everything you make home to impress your friends and family.

Bedstone’s art department is really well equipped and even has a kiln 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; 28th July - 4th August.

Your course at Spy School, Bockleton Hall will begin with a secret package of information arriving for you at home before you even officially enrol. The secret password in this pack will allow you access into this 7 day training programme.

You will learn all about the different skills a spy must master; there will be sessions on Bockleton’s climbing wall, zip wire, assault courses, the mazes, and in the underground labyrinth (will you be brave enough to do it in the dark?!).

There will be codes to find and break, suspicious characters to hide from, strange characters to interview and get information from, mysteries to solve and wicked plans to put a stop to (we’ve included some photos of people we’ve met in previous years).

You will receive secret messages from Spy School staff and must be ready to act on them at a moment’s notice. At the end of the week there’ll be a graduation ceremony where you will receive your Spy School diploma from Dr S. P. O’Narge - the esteemed Director General.

We simply aren’t allowed to tell you any more than that at the moment!

Spy School is for the 8-11 and 12-14 year old age groups; 13th - 20th August.

Pssst! ....
If you would like to come to Spy School, we’re going to need you to demonstrate your code breaking skills. Hidden in this brochure are the 10 jumbled up letters of a vital piece of spy equipment - find them all, work out the word and stick it in space on the application form. Good luck!

For help call Spy HQ - 01684 562400 - and quote ‘Kippers’

The ATE Factor is an ambitious performing arts holiday at Bredenbury Court, offering sessions of singing, dancing and drama to Superweekers and building up to a Final Performance for parents and special guests at the end of the holiday.

This performance needs to be written and auditioned for.

There are costumes to make, sets to create, dances choreograph and learn, songs to practice and lines to memorise, as well as all the ATE fun and games. There wasn’t any way that was all going to fit into a 7 day Superweek so this holiday runs for 10 days instead. As with all the Superweek Plus holidays, you don’t need any expertise to come on this holiday – just enthusiasm.

Bredenbury is perfect for the ATE Factor, it’s one of our larger centre, there’s loads of indoor rehearsal and workshop space, and a stage. Final Performances in the past have used the whole sight (woods, fields, entrance halls, the chapel - the lot), with the audience moving between scenes – very atmospheric!

The ATE Factor is for the 8-11 and 12-15 year old age groups; 21st - 31st August.

The Anglo-French Superweek is at Edge Hill, our centre in sunny (fingers and toes crossed!) Devon.

This holiday is made up of half French and half English
Superweekers. A little time is spent each day practising either
some French or some English to help you chat to your new
friends. You don’t need to know any French at all, or you might
know lots – we don’t mind! Groups are bigger on Anglo-French,
you’ll probably find yourself in a group with about 8 or 9 other
people and you’ll have 2 Monitors – one French speaking and
one English.

Games are played in both languages and you’ll have lots of fun
explaining them to each other. Food will be both French and
English - to give everyone a taste of a different culture. This is one of most popular holidays, and runs for 10 days.

Amusement au Soleil is for 10-14 year olds; 21st-31st 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, being set scientific and technological problems, conundrums and challenges, and wanting to know about robot and machine building.

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, and giant leaping frogs.

The workshop sessions will just be for small groups at a time so there’ll always be someone there to help you, answer your questions or engage in an engineering debate. Along with all the other strange and wacky contraptions, everyone on this holiday makes their very own Brainibot. This programmable robot moves, flashes and beeps and can be told to find the lightest part of a room.

Young Inventors is for 10-14 year olds; 5th - 12th August.

If you fancy a particularly active holiday then we can most definitely recommend Multi Sport at Moor Park.

Whether you are already good at sport and want extra coaching or if you are interested in learning some new sports or fancy getting fitter, we have it all.

There’ll still be all the usual ATE fun and games but we’ll have experts on hand to do sessions every day to improve your skills in games you’ll recognise like tennis, football, netball, basketball and badminton, and to introduce some new ones such as Ultimate Frisbee, waterpolo, orienteering and lacrosse.

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

Multi Sport is for 10 - 14 year olds; 13th - 20th August.

This holiday is especially for older Superweekers. We thought carefully about where to have this holiday and decided there was only one place special enough to be home to what could potentially be some Superweekers’ very last Superweek. ATE has been having holidays at Featherstone Castle for over 50 years and it very much feels like home to us.

This Superweek will be packed with as much ATE magic as is possible, and make sure that the last week of the 2008 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; 21st-28th August.