Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to help us find the next Alex Rider!
Ignite your students’ imaginations, enjoy adventures in the great outdoors and spark a love of reading. We’ve teamed up with Walker Books and author Anthony Horowitz to bring you YHA Alex Rider Mission Briefing.
This is our entry-level Alex Rider package where students (or ‘agents’ as they will be referred to), tackle a range of activities including orienteering, archery, team building, fire lighting, shelter building, assault course, and more – all delivered with a thrilling spy twist. This exciting package has a spy narrative running throughout and includes all daytime and evening activities, keeping your budding agents engaged from dawn to dusk.
But this is not just learning about shelter building, it’s about delivering experiences that enable your team to flourishes in unknown territory, all under the watchful gaze of our YHA special agents. To complement these activities we have a number of sessions unique to our Alex Rider packages including code breaking sessions, gadget design, observations skills and even an urgent hunt for a double agent.
Designed to deliver a thrilling and unique experience, this package can also cover a wide range of curriculum content including literacy, numeracy, geography, design technology and PE.
Even better, students will be encouraged to continue to immersing themselves in the world of Alex Rider after their residential experience with a free copy of Stormbreaker courtesy of Walker Books. Plus, there are exclusive discounts on the Alex Rider series for participating schools.
For schools and groups wanting something that little bit more adventurous, check out Alex Rider Classified Mission.
Full board from
£55.33
Per person, per night (excluding VAT)
Why students love our Alex Rider packages
- Mark Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling books with a memorable residential experience.
- Students receive a free copy of 'Stormbreaker', the first book in the Alex Rider series.
- Students receive a mission complete certificate of their achievements.
- Great for schools wanting a literacy focus to their residential.
- Provides children with inspiration context that can be used to improve writing.
From the moment we arrived, the special agent mission and new agent names got the group instantly hooked. All the activities linked to the spy theme and gave the trip a new element. The last day’s activity which led to the discovery of the Alex Rider books hidden in a room was brilliant! It meant we had 30 copies of the book (a rare thing indeed) and we started reading as a class as soon as we got back. We have done lots of literacy work: comparing the book to the film, persuasive writing and vocabulary work based on Horowitz’s rich language. Our science has come from creating spy gadgets for Alex which covers a lot of areas of science in the new National Curriculum.
Activities
May include (subject to availability and location):
- Archery
- Bushcraft
- Code breaking
- Fencing
- Fire lighting
- Gadget design
- Guided walks
- Hunt the double agent
- Navigation
- Orienteering
- Shelter building
- Team building
Learning outcomes
- To demonstrate the ability to listen and act accordingly to instructions.
- To demonstrate the key personal skills of resilience and self-motivation.
- To work collaboratively as part of a team, supporting, communicating and recognising the achievements of their peers.
- To begin to understand the concept of risk and hazards, and show the development of personal risk management.
- To demonstrate the ability to think strategically as an individual or a member of a team to complete complex and challenging tasks.
- To demonstrate the ability to provide constructive feedback to all groups including their own.
Need to knows
- All of our in-house activities are delivered by trained, DBS-checked staff who are skilled at leading engaging residentials that are tailored to meet the needs of your group.
- Participating students will receive a free copy of 'Stormbreaker', the first in the Alex Rider series courtesy of Walker Books, plus exclusive discounts on the Alex Rider series and exclusive certificates of achievement.
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