Activities

Open Canoeing & Kayaking

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Physical activity


• Introduction to navigational skills.

Electronic Orienteering

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

Brown Bog Team Tasks

• 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