This year, ATE celebrates its 20th birthday! Together with our predecessor body, Colony Holidays, we’ve been running for over fifty years, and this year celebrates 20 years since we were established as ATE. We spoke to Cat, a Monitor and former Superweeker, who put on her Official Birthday Party hat to talk to us: “Twenty years of…
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Superweeks: Education
“I have known many children who have benefited enormously from a new enjoyment in learning, a sense of personal responsibility, and the disciplines of co-operation and working with others to get things done. I believe it would be extremely beneficial if such ideas could be extended, through the training of teachers, from the context of…
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Ethos: Play on Superweeks
I’m lucky that my experience in schools, with scouts and with summer camps has given me plenty of opportunity to see opportunities of brilliant play opportunities in action. I have never been more impressed than what I’ve witnessed on Superweeks run by The Active Training and Education Trust (The ATE Trust). On a Superweek, play…
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Volunteering: ATE Training – What it is, and how it works
Active Training and Education, which runs Superweeks, has over 50 years experience (previously as ‘Colony Holidays’) in both running residential summer camps for children, and in training the young adults who will work directly with the children. But why do we train these people, who come to work with us as enthusiastic volunteers? And what…
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Why Superweeks?
Being on an ATE Superweek means that Ben will have a Monitor who really knows him. Who, by the first evening, will know his name, but he’ll answer quicker to ‘SuperBen’. Knows that his favourite game that day was Lurky and that he hasn’t quite worked out yet just why the moon has a big…
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The Great Outdoors
The chief executive of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds, gave an interview to the Times this week (March 2012) regarding what she suggests is a nationwide ‘anxiety’ that is causing children to miss out on play and nature. “Children are missing out on the sheer joy and physical and mental well-being of being able…
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Serious fun
Millions of British children are “culture starved” as they have never been to an art gallery, theatre or museum, a study has claimed this week (Feb 2012) on BBC news. The research, commissioned by Visit Birmingham, found four in 10 children had never been to an art gallery, while a quarter of parents had never…
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So what actually is ATE? | Keynotes from Barry
How exciting, I find that I am finally entering the ‘blogosphere’. A bit chilly, but I think I might take to it. One of the problems that everyone who is, or has been, involved with ATE Superweeks (or Colony Holidays before them) has is the extreme difficulty one finds in explaining to other people what…