Environmental Education Centre Carnyorth
Carnyorth, St Just, Penzance
TR19 7QD
Telephone: 01736 786344
Email: [email protected]
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Background Information
Carnyorth Environmental Education Centre is situated in West Cornwall between St Just and Pendeen.
The centre is spacious and colourful with attractive grounds and friendly staff. It is in a fantastic
location with a cliff edged coast one way where old mining buildings perch; and wild moorland the
other way where a Bronze Stone circle can be found.
Originally built in 1893 as a village school for mining families, it is now a thriving centre where the staff
endeavour to share their passion for the environment.
For information regarding the Centre
Alison Law, Carnyorth Environmental Education Centre, St Just, TR19 7QE
T: 01736 786344
E: [email protected]
For booking and invoicing contact
Mandy Richards, Cornwall Outdoors, Carew House, Beacon Technology Park, Dunmere Road, Bodmin,
PL31 2QT
T: 01872 326360 E: [email protected]
Centre Description
The Centre, which is centrally heated, has two large dormitories, one with 12 bunks and one with 14
and 2 separate rooms which can be used by staff with 4 bunks in each. A couple of spare mattresses
can be utilised if required. There is a large common room and separate dining room and kitchen. The
centre is self catering, however, catering can be provided upon request.
The centre grounds have developed to inspire and spark creative minds. The mosaic arch leads to a
willow dome and nearby is a pond which is abundant with wildlife and a great spot for relaxing. The
pergola has low level climbing holds.
The centre has photovoltaic tiles which generate electricity and solar panels which heat up the water.
Local Area
This area of Cornwall is wild and wonderful and within walking distance there are wild moors, a Bronze
Age stone circle, World Heritage mining remains including the much visited and well played in restored
arsenic tunnels. A short drive away is superb beaches, climbing areas and great tracks for cycling.
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Useful information
Before your visit
• To book activity days and to make arrangements for arrival and departure times please ring the
centre: 01736 786344.
• Read and understand the new ‘Policy for the Management of Off-Site Visits and Outdoor Learning’.
If you have not already done so this can be accessed via our website www.cornwalloutdoors.
org/members where an account will need to be made. Please contact the office for information
on the enrolment key and password. You should act on all the requirements of the document
which relates to your stay at the centre. Ensure that all accompanying staff has also read all the
guidelines.
• Please ensure that the on-line Education Visit Form has been completed well in advance of your
visit. Any problems contact Paul Parkinson 07973241824. [email protected]
• For those non-school groups who are not being met at the centre please sign the form left out for
you and carry out a fire drill.
• Bread and pasties can be ordered at Warren’s Bakery in St Just 01736 788538.
On your arrival
Most groups will be met by centre staff or a key will be left as arranged. Staff will talk to the group
about centre information and do a fire drill.
You should have available:
• List of group members names including adults.
• List of any medical conditions, dietary requirements.
• A copy of your emergency procedures.
• Photo check sheets
• Please check through all rooms on arrival and report any problems to centre staff.
Packed Lunch
Please remember that on your first day you will need to bring packed lunches for your pupils.
While at the centre:
It is the Leader’s responsibility to:
• Ensure the centre is secure at night and when you go out;
• Enforce group rules and responsibilities;
• Manage group domestic arrangements;
• Regulate group behaviour during activity sessions;
• Take charge of the group during lunch breaks whilst out on activities;
• Ensure group members do not enter the kitchen unless an adult is present;
• Ensure group members are in possession of parental consent forms;
• Deal with group medicine and first aid requirements
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Cleaning
The centre is cleaned and checked before each group comes in. Cleaners do not come in when the
group is in residence. Please let Centre staff know if any problems or defects occur. Please leave the
Centre clean, tidy and free from litter.
On your departure
• Please fill in the leaving form with group numbers and return the keys.
• Please check all rooms are tidy and clean of litter.
• Check for lost property.
After your stay
You will be sent an evaluation form which we hope you will fill in as we value your views.
Accident Procedure
Any accidents or illness occurring during your stay should be noted in the accident book and on the
relevant forms, the latter being completed by the centre First Aid Officer who will then forward them
to the district office. It is therefore essential that the Centre Manager is notified of any incident to
members of the group or accompanying staff as soon as possible.
Fire Drill
The following procedures must be followed in the event of a fire.
In the building:
1. Evacuate the building immediately
2. Sound the Alarm
3. Dial 999, ask for fire brigade.
4. Assemble group outside. Take register
5. Do not attempt to tackle any large blaze.
Please clarify these procedures to your group on arrival at the Centre.
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Suggested clothing and equipment list
Remember the Cornish climate cannot always be relied upon. Make sure you bring
warm clothes – even in July
For night time
In the centre
• Sleeping Bag (best packed separately)
• Clothing and footwear for indoor use
• Pillow case
• Pencils and crayons
• Flat sheet for on the mattress
• 2 black bin liners for wet and dirty clothes
• Night clothes
• Several carrier bags
• Towel
• Tea Towel
• Wash bag and toiletries
• Apron
Group Equipment
• First Aid Kit
• Lands End Explorer 102 map (if desired)
For day time water/land based activities
• Underwear
• Old shoes, children don’t mind getting wet
• Several pairs of warm socks
• T shirts
• Trousers
• Jumpers/Sweat Tops/Fleeces
• A warm coat
• Waterproof jacket and trousers (The Centre
has a limited number for loan)
• Wellies or walking boots
• A pair of trainers (preferably old)
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(specifically for coracle, woodland, rock
pool, adventure activity and Kenidjack
Discovery days).
A warm hat, scarf, gloves
Small rucksack/day bag
Packed lunch box
Unbreakable drinks container
Cap/Sun hat and sun cream
Personal medical requirements
£3 (if souvenir mug desired)
IMPORTANT:
• Please pack everything into a medium sized bag - preferably not a suitcase - ensuring:
• Everything is labelled with your name
• No knives, chewing gum, i-pods or other expensive items.
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Activities
Half day activities - available alone, or in combination to make up a full day:
Local
exploration
Orienteer around the centre grounds and walk over the fields towards the
sea, to explore and play games in the magnificent mining tunnels.
2. Solar boats
Construct a solar powered boat using simple circuitry, reclaimed materials
and race them on water.
3.
Two courses of increasing difficulty, from playground to field and finish by
cracking the code to stop the bomb.
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Orienteering
Cornish Pixie
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Walk
Discover a wild piskie nest in the Cornish landscape and create your very
own piskie. Design its’ character portrait and a piskie personal treasure
chest.
5. Minibeasts
Depending on numbers a 2 or 3 group rotation exploring 2 different
habitats; the pond and all of its wildlife, and the field, collecting bugs in
pooters. We also look at the life cycle of a butterfly and a frog; and we play
some life cycle games.
6. Smugglers Trail You will follow old maps, search for lost keys and find the hidden stash.
7.
Stone Circle
Shenanigans
A quick walk up the hill to the Bronze Age stone circle for games, natural
art, craftywords and racey numbers.
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Full Day Activities:
1. Build and cruise your own Coracle
For many years people have been building these simple but sturdy boats. In teams learn how to build
a coracle and paddle it on a small lake on the moors.
2. Two-day Coracle & Orienteering Adventure
Fluffy and Waddles, the centre mascots, have been kidnapped and taken to
Doom Island! The children must learn and use orienteering skills to find the
necessary clues, make team coracles and follow maps to save them.
3. Action Day
Choose 3 of the following:
• Cycle skills and off-road ride
• Climbing on the centre climbing wall
• Archery, become the next Robin Hood
• Orienteer and get to grips with the local environment
4. Miner’s Cluedo
The World Heritage St Just Tin Mining area sets the scene for a large scale game
of Cluedo! There’s been a murdered miner and through the use of various
props the children have to establish ‘who dunnit’, with what and where by
visiting different parts of this magnificent mining landscape adjacent to the
coast.
5. Wonderfully Wild Woodlands
These are our two woodland days designed for fun, adventure and environmental education:
i. Survival Day
ii. Design your own Woodland Day
The group find salvaged rescue packs and using
this equipment work as teams to survive in the
woods. They need to make shelters, make fires to
cook food, learn about edible foods, make natural
string and candles plus other woodland skills.
Choose 4 preferences from the following options:
• Fire making (with our without cooking)
• Shelter building
• Environmental art
• Food Chains
• Night Line
• Woodland Words
• Sensory Earth Walk
• Stream Walk
• Woodland Piskies and treasure boxes
• Mud Line (team building)
6. Kenidjack Discovery
A day beginning with following clues to find the whereabouts of the lost valley. Once the restored
mining buildings in the valley have been found the group must set about to make camp.
How do we get water up from the stream?
Where shall we make the shelter?
What shall we cook?
What wild life is about?
A fire and natural candles should be made.
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7. Rock Pool Discovery
We walk along the coastal footpath and a beautiful valley until we reach Porth
Ledden near Cape Cornwall where we base ourselves to explore the rock pool
habitat, fill in group data recording sheets, look at animal rock pool classification
and make drawings.
8. Pesky Pirates
A day for dressing up and swashbuckling adventure, as we follow the trail of Captain Braveheart in his
search for his long lost ill-gotten wealth. Expect pirate maps, hidden keys, double-crossing pirates and
treasures both lost and found.
9. Art day
Be arty! A day of sketching using a whole variety of media in a stunning location of
mining heritage and coastal cliff backdrops. Depending on the weather we will stay
out or return to the centre for print making.
Evening Activities
1. Story telling - Great entertainment for all ages
2. Drama - With Jilly great fun all round.
3. Circus Skills - Watch and practice juggling, stilts, unicycles.
4. Mark the Miner - Brings mining to life through props & stories.
5. Indian Evening - A fun session with Daya listening to some popular Punjabi music, learning a simple
Bollywood dance routine, dressing in traditional Indian clothes and acting out a wedding.
6. The Sky at Night - View the stars, planets and galaxies (Clear nights only)
How to find us: TR19 7QE
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Carnyorth is situated between St Just in Penwith and Pendeen on the coast road which runs from
St Ives to Lands End. The road to St Ives is very beautiful - but very twisty, narrow and slow, and
therefore not recommended.
Take the A30 past Penzance, turning right for St Just on the A3071. Turn right again at the Pendeen
sign then left towards Trewellard and left again at the bottom of the hill. The Centre is opposite the
phone box in Carnyorth.
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