COLLAGE, SCHOOL RESOURCES AND LEISURE MANAGEMENT.

Collage is a company devoted to providing educational, cultural and leisure services.

Every year, Collage organises more than 150 educational days trips for schools and around 60 youth camps for pupils from schools all over Catalonia, as well as a range of educational and cultural events (traditional festivities at schools, children’s film festivals, ecology workshops) and leisure activities (school meals, summer camps, entertainment).

Collage provides monitor services at the Can Foix house, at Cal Mata  (the house of the pedagogue Marta Mata, an outstanding and highly influential figure in the world of education, recently deceased, who helped us to ensure the quality of our activities), Ca ca n’Oriol, etc, and for activities in Parc Güell in Barcelona, the Port of Vilanova i La Geltrú and Montserrat Natural Park, amongst others. Collage is a member of the Catalan Association for Education, Leisure and Culture (Associació Catalana de l’Educació, el Lleure i la Cultura, ACELLEC) Can Foix forms part of the Catalan Association of Youth Camps and Hostels (Associació Catalana de Cases de Colònies i Albergs de Catalunya. (ACCAC)

The skate activities are organised and directed by David Rodriguez, president of Barcelona Skaters Association and a well-known expert skateboarder. The activities will be given in English, with native English-speaking monitors and monitors with a high level of the language. Further information about Collage: www.collageweb.net

GOALS OF THE CAMP

The combination of nature and skate is ideal for motivating and encouraging young people to fully enjoy a youth camp whose main ingredients are fun, learning, discovery and meeting people. All this is certain to create a satisfying experience that will provide everything parents and tutors could wish for their children. It doesn’t matter how good they are at skating, as classes and activities will adapted to their level, and safety will always be the number one priority.

These camps are trilingual, in English, Spanish and Catalan, enabling young people from all over the world to take part, meet and practice different languages. Around 75% of the activities and all everyday announcements (information, programmes, signs) will be in English.

We know how difficult it is to organise activities that are at once safe, educational and fun. However, we are convinced that the NatureSkate youth camps we describe here (an idea we have developed into a mature, rounded educational project thanks to our experience as a leisure education company with considerable experience in organising adventure camps) successfully combine all three, and we are certain that we will produce excellent results to confirm this.

In short, the objectives of these youth camps are to:

Encourage young people to discover and enjoy nature in an environmentally-friendly way.
Enable them to learn and practice their skating in safety.
Provide opportunities to practice English whilst taking part in enjoyable activities.
Encourage participants to make friends with each other.
Reinforce good habits and routines whilst enjoying new experiences in a completely different environment from that of the school or the family.