Summer Adventure Camp - Water Sports, Marine Science and Rewilding!

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This camp is all about having fun outdoors with your friends and making new ones whilst learning about the amazing wildlife and marine ecosystems in East Lothian and the Scottish Borders.

Throughout the week the mornings will be spent memory making in the rockpools and learning about how we look after our local coastline and woodlands and then each afternoon we dive into our exciting fun filled water sports programme. This will be run by the experts at Coast-to-Coast surf school and campers will get to try a range of water sports from surfing, paddleboarding, bodyboarding and even some coasteering!!

We will also visit the one of kind Carrifran Wildwood in the Scottish Borders/Dumfries and Galloway. This is a very special site of stunning natural beauty and ecological restoration on a HUGE scale. In past 20 years the site has increased the number of bird species from single figures to now into the hundreds! Campers will get a personalised guided walk and talk and the chance to help the Wildwood recover even more supported by Carrifran Wildwood Ranger – Andy Wilson (who has presented at Loretto to our Conservation Society pupils earlier this year).

Loretto Staff running the Camp:

Camp Lead Teacher
Gary Reid is our Learning for Sustainability Coordinator and Head of PE at Loretto and teaches pupils from 2nd form to U6th.
Gary has over 15 years' experience in coordinating fun and engaging both day and residential trips for all age levels and has personally volunteered with Borders Forest Trust and the Marine citizen science projects Restoration Forth – WWF, NB Seabird Centre and knows their staff well.

Camp Teacher
Emily Alexander is one of Loretto's wonderful Geography teachers, who has a huge amount of knowledge and practical experience about Scotland's geological landscapes to inspire campers, and she has co-coordinated amazing school trips to Iceland each October. Prior to working at Loretto Emily also worked for an outdoor education company on the Isle of Skye and is keen to promote more outdoor education in schools.

Spaces will be limited on this camp - book early to avoid disappointment as this promises to be an action-packed week that the children will love!

The cost is fully inclusive of lunch, VAT and booking fee.

We are offering an earlybird discount (until April 30th 2026) giving 10% off your booking - please use the code EARLYBIRD10.
We offer a sibling discount - please contact camps@loretto.com.
We accept childcare vouchers - please use code CCVOUCHER25 to sign up to guarantee your space and then email us at camps@loretto.com directly to arrange payment.

Please note that this is a NON-RESIDENTIAL camp