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Active Training and Education
What is ATE ?
The Active Training and Education Trust (ATE) was founded in 1996, as a successor body to the Council for Colony Holidays for Schoolchildren which provided residential holidays for many thousands of children between 1965 and 1983. ATE was formed by a group of people who had worked with Colony Holidays and who believed strongly in the potential benefits to children and young people of an imaginative, creative and well-run system of residential holidays where people from all schools and backgrounds could meet. ATE was established as an Educational Trust, and it is supported by a Governing Council of representatives from most major educational Associations.
Our residential holidays are called Superweeks, they happen throughout the summer at one of our four amazing centres and we also squeeze one into the Easter holidays as well as running one over the New Year! We collect children from 17 designated travel points across the UK and supervise their journey both to and from their holiday. Once they have arrived we spend the next 7 days doing all kinds of different activities, many of which the children will have never experienced before. They’ll be put into groups of between 6-8 and looked after by one of our amazing monitors. They might be 17 or 20 or 25 but they’ve all volunteered to by part of our organisation and spent a week being trained by us in the best ways to have fun. They might be at university or training to be a teacher, some of them might even be ex-ATE children but whatever their background, they’ll be able to keep your child safe, well looked after and entertained like never before. Over the course of the next week your child might learn songs about fishing, Tarzan and a particularly large buffalo. They’ll probably play games with cards, balls, cups and balloons as well as make things, paint things and swim (though not at the same time).
The holidays are managed by a Director and one or two Assistant Directors, these guys all used to be monitors themselves but are now in charge of running the holiday and helping our newest volunteers out. Experienced monitors are hand-picked to train as Assistant Directors and then trained again if they are to become Directors. We train them so much because there’s a lot to learn but when we’re finished with them they really are incredible. Most of them work with children in a professional capacity and all of them are dedicated to making their Superweeks as good as they can be.
What do parents say about Superweeks?
Thank you all for providing him with a wonderful experience. I would go so far as to say it was the best week of his life; it made him very happy.
Mrs. W. Norwich
How to get in touch...
If you would like to find out more then you can visit us at ATE
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The Active Training and Education Trust
Charity number: 1062448
Company number: 3364551
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