A registered Adventure Activities Provider Makahika Outdoor Pursuit Centre is renowned for delivering outstanding school camps for Year 3 – Year 8’s plus expert bush craft and advanced leadership skills programmes to students from Year 9 to Year 13. Clients travel from Wanganui, Napier, Havelock, Wellington, Palmerston North and a variety of locations in between.
The Centre is set among the forests and native bush in the foothills of the Tararua Ranges, 1.5 hours from central Wellington, or 45 minutes from Palmerston North.
As you venture through the gates, you get a sense of the challenge and excitement that awaits.
Makahika provides your programme development, full Risk Assessment Management System (RAMS), accommodation options (up to 140 per group), and fantastic fresh food; all activities are supervised by industry qualified instructors. We develop a programme specific to your needs and to meet your learning outcomes for the year. The “building block” skill matrix activities are “accumulative”; you can return yearly and students will experience new activities, build new skills and consolidate their previous learning.
Your EOTC Co-ordinators are fully supported by our planning processes to ensure your experience is stress free, effective and you are provided with comprehensive camp documentation; we are happy to attend your camp information evenings provided for parents.
Examples of activities
Years 3-6
Flying Fox, Adventure-Based Learning Activities, Orienteering, High Ropes x 2 Components, Bushwalk.
Years 7-8
Flying Fox, Team Building Activities, Speed Orienteering, High Ropes x 3, Climbing and Abseil, Bush Craft – Fire Lighting, Bivvie Making, Basic Survival Skills, Environmental Study Programme, Farming Experience (Woolshed Sleepover), Primary Industry and Produce Adventure Race, Overnight Bush-Camp Experience.
Years 9-13
Flying Fox, Team Building Activities, 4-6 hour Rogaine, High Ropes x 4, Climbing and Abseil, Pamper Pole, Survival Training, Navigation; DOE (Bronze – Gold), 5-14 day Residential “Men/Women of Character” Courses, Leadership Development, Personality Type Training and Skills for Conflict Resolution, Goal Setting.
Duke of Edinburgh Adventurous Journey programme
Makahika OPC is also Licensed as an Award Unit for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award providing all components of the Duke of Edinburgh Adventurous Journey programme.
We have multiple clients, training over 1000 students each year. Training can be provided for between five and 120 students at any one time, over two-day training weekends through to five day residential programmes, during which training and practice journeys will be undertaken. We can coordinate fixed dates across your school’s DofE programme, writing into your term calendar the dates that best meet your school’s needs.
Our instructors are industry-qualified, highly experienced bush-craft and/or Search and Rescue specialists. We carry DeLorme inReach devices (personal locator beacons with text messaging capability), which allows our teams to be “live-tracked” by our operations manager from Makahika OPC, receive regular text message updates via satellite. Teams can also text communicate between groups on route. We are first aid qualified, and carry group emergency equipment.
Locations are flexible – our teams can travel to a location of your choice, or you can bring students to Makahika OPC in Levin. We have trained in the Kaweka’s, Rimataka & Tararua Ranges, Abel Tasman, and other locations to meet our client’s needs.
Residential Programme – The first week of every school holidays Makahika runs a residential 2 + 3 day (2 days training, 2-3 day practice tramp) for all levels. Students can register on line for these programmes at www.makahika.co.nz. Gold students can also apply to undertake their residential with us.
Example of training programmes:
Programme One
We provide training in the Kaweka Ranges for a large girls secondary school, with over 300 students participating in 12 training weekends during the year.
Programme Two
A Wellington school has 120 students participate in a four-day training and practice journey programme, with options for mountain biking and tramping (introductory grade, intermediate grade and advanced grade), designed to allow boys of all fitness and experience levels to receive the “same training content” in varying physical environments.
Teams are located between Holdsworth and Makahika OPC in Levin. This allows the fit, experienced, boys to be physically and mentally challenged, and the less physically capable boys to be successful in an environment that is foreign to them.
Programme Three
Six students book into a residential programme at Makahika OPC for a “small group” training and practice journey – 6:1 ratio with an instructor.
Programme Four
14 students select a date and location to suit their group, and Makahika OPC provides a Safety Management Plan and qualified instructor to provide training and supervision.
Email : director@makahika.co.nz
Phone: 06 367 8438
Cell: 021 725 593
www.makahika.co.nz