April 2024 - Secondary School
Personal growth and development. Building resilience and confidence
March 2024 - Secondary School
It was fine -the building is a bit worn but fine. The activities are good.
March 2024 - Secondary School
January 2024 - Secondary School
December 2023 - Secondary School
December 2023
November 2023 - Primary School
We visited Kingswood West Runton, not Kingswood Overstrand.
November 2023 - Primary School
October 2023
October 2023 - Secondary School
None
October 2023 - Secondary School
None
October 2023 - Primary School
Superb activities, food and instructors. Buildings very tired
October 2023 - Primary School
October 2023 - Primary School
September 2023 - Primary School & Secondary School
July 2023 - Primary School
July 2023 - Secondary School
Very accommodating for the needs of our SEN learners.
June 2023 - Primary School
June 2023 - Primary School
June 2023 - Secondary School
Great venue, superbly located and really good staff team there
June 2023 - Secondary School
Great venue, superbly located and really good staff team there
June 2023 - Secondary School
Great location. Super helpful staff and students were able to complete their intended outcomes.
June 2023 - Primary School
Excellent for team-building, problem solving, developing resilience and perseverance as well as independence.
March 2023 - Primary School
A great visit for building on friendships, independence, problem solving and fun.
November 2022 - Primary School
Great adventurous activities.
October 2022 - Primary School
October 2022 - Primary School
Also good for PSHE and Social Skills
October 2022 - Primary School
Also good for PSHE and Social Skills
September 2022 - Secondary School
July 2022 - Primary School
Teamwork and cooperation
June 2022 - Secondary School
June 2022 - Secondary School
June 2022 - Primary School
June 2022 - Secondary School
May 2022 - Secondary School
May 2022 - Primary School
May 2022 - Secondary School
March 2022 - Primary School
March 2022 - Primary School
A good experience for the children though the centre doesn't normally cater for such a young age. Adaptions were made.
February 2022 - Secondary School
November 2021 - Primary School
October 2021 - Secondary School
May 2021 - Secondary School
The team at Kingswood were brilliant with all of our students. They explained all of the activities in a methodical and clear manner to ensure that everyone knew their role and the tasks in hand. They showed great patience and understanding of the needs of the students. All staff remained cheerful and happy, always responsive to all situations. The facilities at Kingswood were extremely good and well looked after and all H+S was adhered to at all times. The paperwork and Risk Assessments from them was excellent and clearly written and communication between Sidestrand and the venue was really good.
January 2020 - Secondary School
November 2019 - Primary School
November 2019 - Primary School
Children really enjoyed the activities and had an excellent leader however the place itself was very run down and we had a number of issues with catering.
October 2019 - Primary School
Our school enjoyed a great fun-packed week of activities.
After visiting two years ago - the only areas arising would be: accommodation - not as clean as previous. Also- being able to have a say in the activities we could do would be great as some children ended up repeating activities from previous year.
October 2019 - Primary School
Superb environment for children to learn and develop the skills we set out to achieve
September 2019 - Secondary School
September 2019 - Primary School
June 2019 - Secondary School
June 2019 - Primary School
Children enjoyed their trip, were safe and well fed. Accommodation was dated. Some group games were either boring or not well organised
June 2019 - Secondary School
The staff and facilities at Kingswood Overstrand Hall were extremely good.They were patient and caring towards our SEND students.
May 2019 - Primary School
It was good to see improvements made at Kingswood from the previous year in the length of the sessions - which meant that the children had more than one opportunity to try the activity - and in the menu. We had concerns with one instructor during our stay but this was dealt with quickly by senior staff at Kingswood when we raised our concerns.
May 2019
May 2019 - Primary School
The activities and the staff were amazing, however the accommodation was not suitable for the size and mix of the pupils.
April 2019 - Primary School
An excellent residential. Very well run and organised.
April 2019 - Secondary School
Very accommodating
March 2019 - Secondary School
Wonderful Centre who were only too willing to support the group as individuals and as a whole.
March 2019 - Secondary School
March 2019 - Secondary School
Good accommodation, helpful staff. Also a good location.
February 2019 - Secondary School
Very helpful staff, great activities.
November 2018 - Primary School
November 2018 - Primary School
Staff very supportive, very aware of safety with good safety equipment. Good facilities.
November 2018 - Primary School
November 2018 - Primary School
Some activities were very basic (e.g. build a marble run using two sheets of flip chart paper) and there was very little discussion about how well they were working as a team or how they could improve.
The high ropes and abseiling activities were good but only 1 or 2 children could go at once meaning the children only had around 5 minutes of activity in the hour.
Some activities (fencing and laser tag) did not have enough equipment for all the children to have a go at once.
29 children did the nightline with 1 instructor in the dark - this was only safe because 3 of my staff supported and ran one of the groups.
The tuck shop sold children sweets telling them they did not have gelatin in, when in fact they did.
October 2018 - Secondary School
October 2018 - Secondary School
October 2018 - Secondary School
September 2018 - Primary School
August 2018 - Secondary School
July 2018 - Primary School
June 2018 - Primary School
June 2018 - Primary School
May 2018 - Primary School
An excellent service provided which the children thoroughly enjoyed
May 2018 - Secondary School
May 2018 - Primary School
April 2018 - Primary School
April 2018 - Primary School
March 2018 - Secondary School
January 2018 - Primary School & Secondary School
