overnight camp
Calling all young adventurers! Get ready for the ultimate holiday escape at ESMS Mary Erskine’s.
Join us for an action-packed journey filled with thrills, laughter, and unforgettable memories!
Strap into your zorb suits and zoom across the field, or test your speed on our exhilarating peddle go-kart track. Take aim and unleash your inner archer in our exciting archery sessions, or venture into the lush woodlands for an exploration like no other.
But wait, the fun doesn’t stop there! Dive into slippery excitement on our slip n slides, engage in epic water battles to cool off from the summer heat, and gear up for gel blaster showdowns that’ll leave you soaked and smiling.
Designed for adventurers aged 5 to 11 years old, our summer camp promises non-stop excitement and boundless fun.
So pack your sense of adventure and join us for an unforgettable summer at Mary Erskins!
Spaces are limited, so book your spot today and get ready to make this summer one for the books
Located in the heart of the Cairngorms, just two miles from the Lecht Ski Centre, the campus provides year-round access to mountains, forests and glens. The building has been renovated to accommodate large dormitories, group catering facilities and generous social areas.
Let your children wild this summer with activities from Hill walking, gorge walking, gel blasters , slip n slides , mountain biking , play away in the games room with table football and movie evenings.
MORE INFORMATION ON THIS YEARS CAMP
Where adventures begin and stories are made
Our site is situated just off Colinton Road in Edinburgh, and we’ll be operating from the Edinburgh United Football Club—an amazing venue.
It offers both indoor and expansive outdoor spaces, with nearby woodlands for exploration. Despite being centrally located in Edinburgh, you can experience the tranquility of the countryside.
The wild woodlands provide ample space for exploration, featuring streams for net-dipping and vast pitches for our renowned games.
There’s a diverse range of activities available, allowing children to try their hand at archery, don inflatable zorb suits, navigate our go-kart course, and wrap up the day with water battles, slip and slides, or gel blasters.
Our days are filled with rewarding activities that not only provide children with valuable skills but also ensure they have a tremendous amount of fun.
Where adventures begin
and stories are made…
We have landed in Musselburgh Edinburgh, our camp at Loretto is set in the gorgeous expanse of the upper school.
With woodlands to explore, large fields to really put our peddle go karts to challenge, indoor spaces and our own pavilion we are excited to be running our camps from Loretto.
Come join us for an adventure, from zorb suits, fire skills and archery to peddle go – karts, wild cooking and tree climbing our holiday camps will keep your children happy.
Where adventures begin
and stories are made…
Set to the west of Edinburgh Cargilfield school has a gorgeous campus. Send your young ones to explore with us as we venture through the tree house, climb the indoor bouldering wall and have heaps of fun racing our peddle go -karts.
With indoor spaces, plenty of outdoor space to roam and the ability to adventure to the beach, this site has so much to offer.
From bouldering walls to zorb suits, fire skills and archery our holiday camps will keep your children happy.
Where adventures begin
and stories are made…
St George’s School is located on a beautiful campus set in the quiet residential area of Ravelston and Murrayfield in Edinburgh, just to the west of the city centre.
A beautiful school grounds perfect for our activities. Multi-use pitches, indoor and outdoor spaces allow us to provide activities for all in any weather.
Let your children run off energy and spend the day at the Wild Outdoors, they can get involved from our archery range, to graffiti art, creating a course for our remote-control cars and test how far they can make it on our slip n slides.
Where adventures begin
and stories are made
For our 2024 season we are located behind Merchiston Castle School – The Wild Outdoors will be based out of Edinburgh United Football Club, which is just off Colinton Road.
Book here to grab a space and read a little more about it .
Think you know the city? Merchiston Castle School is an amazing venue.
With indoor spaces, huge outdoors spaces, woodlands and even a river running through the school grounds.
You can feel like you are out in the countryside from the comfort of an Edinburgh centre location. We have the wild woodlands; these stretch on and have so much space to explore.
With streams to dip our nets into and huge pitches to play our famous games, with a huge range of activities means your children can be trying out archery or inflatable zorb suits, they could be zooming around our go-kart course and ending the day with water battles and slip and slides or an obstacle course.
Our days are full of rewarding activities that give children real skills and huge amounts of fun.
Where adventures begin
and stories are made…
Although set only a stone’s throw from the Western General Hospital near Stockbridge, you can find the wild in the middle of the city, children can feel like they have left the city behind when they step into the grounds of our iconic Fettes site.
With towering ancient trees to explore amongst, and vast grassy lands to run along. Fettes is home to an array of wildlife and the children get a chance to be a part of it.
Let your children spend their holiday adventuring and exploring, climbing the giant oak tree with ropes and harnesses, test your skills on the ropes course and ninja line and zoom around in zorb suits.
Where adventures begin
and stories are made…
We run our 1 and 2 night overnight camps from Thirlestane Castle, they are packed full of activities and there is loads of time to explore.
With our own fond memories of playing out all summer, we have tailored a programme with activities that your children will find fun and engaging.
As well as experiencing life on camp from helping with cooking, to maintaining the fire. Children will be immersed in their surroundings.
Making friends and taking home lessons and experiences they will keep with them forever.
From fire lighting, survival skills, wild swimming, river rafts to tree climbing, archery and ninja lines.
Camps here start at 8.30/9am and finish on your last day at 12.30/1pm
(Unless booked into a day camp which will run as 8.30/9am – 5/5.30pm)
Some of our Wild Activities...
competition
throwing
hunting
climbing
roasting