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Kingswood Educational Activity Centres holds public exhibition to present plans for the former Earth Centre site

Posted: Tuesday June 21st 2011

(April 2011)
Approximately 240 people attended a public exhibition held by Kingswood, the leading provider of residential educational activity centres. The event was held on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 April at The Ivanhoe Centre, Conisbrough to provide details of the proposed outdoor educational facility to be located on the former Earth Centre site.
Those [...]

Public welcomed to hear about plans for the new Kingswood Centre

Posted: Tuesday June 21st 2011

Kingswood — the new owners of the former Earth Centre site — will hold a public exhibition at The Ivanhoe Centre, Gardens Lane, Conisbrough on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th of April to provide details of our proposed outdoor educational facility to be located on the former site. The exhibition will provide an opportunity [...]

Flagship Educational Activity Centre to open in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire

Posted: Wednesday March 23rd 2011

Kingswood — the leading educational activity services provider — has been selected as the preferred purchaser of the 50-acre former Earth Centre visitor attraction in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire.
Kingswood will undertake a multi-million pound investment programme to create a flagship residential educational activity centre on the site, which has been vacant since 2004. Kingswood’s [...]

The Sporting Legends Conventions

Posted: Tuesday September 28th 2010

The Sporting Legends Conventions are a fantastic educational event for school, college and university students held at Grosvenor Hall Centre in Kent which boasts state of the art education and sporting facilities.
We are holding two conventions, one for School Groups on 7th to 9th March 2011 and one for College and University Groups on 21st [...]

New RocketSki.com Website

Posted: Tuesday September 28th 2010

RocketSki.com launched its new website in September 2010. The new website is much more user friendly, highlighting the latest special offers, easy navigation and top resort information. RocketSki.com has also entered the world of Social Media by setting up Facebook and Twitter accounts. This allows RocketSki to communicate special offers, new availability and current resort [...]

STS & SkiPlan Go Social

Posted: Tuesday September 28th 2010

In September 2010 STS, School Travel Service and SkiPlan joined Facebook and Twitter in order to further develop our presence and interaction with our customers.
We aim to offer reassurance with our online presence as customers will be able to get all the latest information from us as well as get in touch with [...]

New Improvements at Dukeshouse Wood

Posted: Monday March 8th 2010

In March 2010 we are completing the second phase of the Dukeshouse Wood centre refurbishment with many new facilities and great improvements to buildings. Accommodation is in comfortable, clean lodges with boys and girls sleeping in separate houses and teachers nearby. These dormitories have been fully improved and updated, all with en-suite bathrooms for [...]

The NEW ‘Best in Class’ Educational Activity Centre Opens

Posted: Friday February 26th 2010

Following a multi-million pound upgrade Grosvenor Hall, near Ashford has now opened it’s doors to visiting schools and colleges. The former state of the art Police Training Centre is already being hailed as the best Educational activity centre anywhere within Europe. The new centre is just minutes from J9 of the M20 and consists of [...]

Rarely Cover and Learning Outside the Classroom

Posted: Thursday October 1st 2009

In August 2009 the DCSF stated “There is absolutely no reason why schools should stop providing school trips because of the rarely-cover provisions” and reaffirmed that the Department recognised that “Schools trips should be an integral part of every child’s education and personal development and provision for them should be included in school calendars and [...]

Kingswood Centres Launches New Primary Schools Programme

Posted: Saturday September 26th 2009

Kingswood’s new programme for Key Stage 2 / Scottish P4-7 students is launched this week. Courses continue to focus on bringing key educational concepts out of the classroom learning environment, fulfilling the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto and Every Child Matters policy for teachers.

Our widely renowned “Discovery Programme” for 2009/10 has been refined into a [...]