Rangimarie Bush Centre

Building Resilience and Independence - A school camp promoting outdoor education and bush skills

Follow a journey of discovery and develop new skills through teamwork games,activities and primitive crafts. Experience Life at a slower pace. Reconnect with nature and immerse yourself in the processes of harvesting ingredients from the garden and splitting wood for the fire.

Experienced instructors lead your programme dawn til dusk. We provide the food and teach you how to cook on wood-fired stoves. Capacity 36 in 6x6 cabins with showers and flush toilets.

Tailored activity programme to meet your specific learning utcomes, for example:

Pioneering • Forging • Team Games • Archery (build your own!) • Fire lighting skills and cooking • Navigation and mapwork • Woodwork • Pottery • Bushcraft and shelter building • Weaving natural fibres • Gardening • Stream crossing and swimming • Pest control and conservation