3 hectares of green space, with a children's play area, sports areas and a park for skating and BMX. Their latest feature is the waterfall, which is lit up at night.The vast yet friendly Kidwells Park's latest feature, The Waterfall, features a bridge, ornamental planting and is lit up at night! It's an enchanting little stop on the way through, but there's actually plenty to do here too!
Sports
Sports
What is it?
Sport is one of the most widely varied recreational pursuits ever. It includes world famous sports such as Football, Rugby, Tennis and Cricket though to many more unusual types you may never have heard of - watersports have been classified separately to this listing.
What does it involve?
Sport usually involves physical movement and the aim of achieving a goal, and can be played as part of a competition, for pleasure or for exercising. Special equipment is usually part of sport, with the most common element being a ball.
Why do it and what are the benefits?
Practicing sport is one of the best ways to exercise, as it allows you to have fun whilst doing so! It's also a great way of building self-confidence and bonds within a group, and can actually help prevent stress related illnesses.
What equipment do we need?
A lot of sport requires specialist equipment, but most of it is reasonably cheap and will allow you to practice sport within your own grounds! However, there are many sports that require visiting somewhere more specialist, and these places will provide the equipment for you; for example, indoor skydiving will mean a trip to the provider, but will be an unforgettable experience!
Who is it suitable for?
Sport can be suitable for any ages as long as it's practiced correctly!
Costs?
The costs of practicing sport can vary from completely free to reasonably expensive - some types of sport require careful instruction from qualified tutors and a lot of specialist equipment! Choose carefully depending on your budget.
Issues/Things to think about? (unsuitable for age groups, medical conditions etc)
Younger children may not enjoy some sports such as others! More physically demanding activities such as boxing or wrestling may not be suitable for smaller children - be aware of the needs of the group!
How do we include?
Disability in sport has become extremely well catered for, so there is guaranteed to be something everyone in your student body can join in with.
Doing it abroad?
Sport is practiced all over the world, so definitely make sure you research what is popular locally! There will be many sports practiced widely abroad that aren't so popular in the UK, so a trip abroad may be the only chance for some people to have a go!
Main website:
Visit our National Associations and Governing Bodies for Sports page to see a great list of popular available sports and their specific informational websites.
Venues with this Activity
Daventry Country Park was created in 1968 as part of the nationwide Countryside Act. This movement sought to provide communities with green spaces to use and enjoy. The reservoir (130 acres of open water) was dug out and completed in 1804, taking eight years to finish.
A great park in the heart of Matlock with bowling greens, children’s boating lake, interactive play area, miniature railway and a skateboard park. There are also tennis courts and a putting green. Free to visit.
Established in 1980 Britain’s most experienced summer holiday operator for children and teenagers aged 3-17 years. With a host of exciting and adventurous activities to choose from.
On the quiet banks of the River Wye and offers tennis courts and a putting green, a rounders pitch and a charming foot bridge over to the historic Castle Green and Castle Pool.
Skegness is a lovely traditional coastal town in Lincolnshire. This is where Butlins all started back in 1936 but a lot has changed since then! You’ll find some lovely restaurants and a beautiful blue flag sandy beach right on your doorstep.
Country Cousins is one of the oldest 'English as a Foreign language' providers in England. We are a small family run business which has been providing high quality English educational visits to Junior students and families since 1951.
Set in the heart of Watford, Hertfordshire, Watford Leisure Centre Central offers a fantastic mix of activities from gym to swim, group exercise to sports, climbing to relaxing.
Facilities include a leisure pool with beach entry, adventure soft play, sports hall, pre school activities, climbing wall and roller skating.
Set in Poole, Dorset, Everyone Active Leisure Centre: Rossmore offers a range of different activities to the local community.
From swim to gym, climbing wall to soft play area, this is a leisure centre that caters for everyone.
Sunbury Leisure Centre can be found in Sunbury on Thames, the southern most point of Middlesex. The leisure centre caters for all ages offering a range of facilities including a 25m swimming pool, a gym, group exercise studio, sports hall and climbing wall.
The Climbing section runs climbing sessions for ages 6-18, and we have a great kid friendly ethos to accompany this healthy activity.
A great soft play area for children aged up to 9years, available for the older ones is a fantastic LaserQuest area!
Space Play is ideal for ages up to a maximum of 9 years, by which point LaserQuest might be more appealing! Spaceplay offers a multilevel adventure playframe with ramps, tunnels, slides, balls, viewing porthole & a wobbler seesaw all set to a clean spaceage theme.
800 square metres of climbing wall! The centre offers Bouldering, Top Roping and Leading Climbing Facilities, as well as running courses for beginners or improvers, starting from age 7: there’s basically no excuse to stay on the ground!
Calling all rev heads to burn some rubber at Elk Motorsports! As welcoming to beginners as they are to the experienced, with an all weather floodlit track with a top quality, high grip tarmac surface.
An indoor skate park with a garden and shop. There are different sessions running throughout the day so make sure you check before travelling. There is also a garden area with a ramp and slacklining rig out the back.
There are sessions for all ages and abilities. The park is ideal for anyone wanting to scoot, skateboard or use inline skates.
Recently renamed after local Paralympic hero, the David Weir Leisure Centre in Carshalton, Surrey, offers both indoor and outdoor sports facilities.
The 1000-acres of Park and Forest at Moors Valley have something for everyone.
Horse riding lessons at Sherwood Riding school are great activities for kids.
It's a Nottinghamshire riding school with a difference, BHSI Instructor Sam and her team make learning to ride a horse easy and fun.
Laser-gaming is a live combat entertainment experience using infra-red gaming guns for eight year olds and up.
The laser-guns use a harmless infra-red beam, similar to a TV remote, that tags sensors worn by each player. They're harmless infra red guns, built tough, with realistic sound effects, realistic weights and real scopes!
Quad biking fun for all the family, quad parties, family sessions, quad ramble adventures and inflatable quad track hire. Bike sizes to suit from 6 years and up.
We have a selection of bike sizes from 50cc for the little ones with remote cut outs and lanyards, to 100cc for the bigger kids. We also offer 150cc and 300cc machines which are available in the family sessions.
Painless bruiseless laser tag, the gentler way to get the thrills of shoot 'em ups in a live action role play setting.
It's always traditionally played in an atmospheric arena of some kind, but this place goes all out, offering 3 vast and interlacing floors of immersive militarised lay out, with high tech interactive features and sound and light effects!
Our aim is to enable young people to develop through taking part in outdoor activities in a fun and safe environment. This simple aim has led us to develop our Centre that rivals commercially run Centres in terms of both facilities and activity provision.
As we are a charity we are able to maintain excellent value for money.
How big is a Penny Farthing's wheel? And just how uncomfortable were those early bikes compared with today's hi-tech versions? Journey through the lanes of cycle history and see bicycles from 1819, such as the Hobby Horse, Boneshakers and Penny Farthings, up to the most modern Carbon Fibre machines of today.
Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum is the largest tennis museum in the world. The museum was inaugurated at The Championships centenary event in 1977. Exhibits from as far back as 1555 form part of a huge collection of artefacts from the days of real tennis to the modern game.
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