Jungle Explorer Workshop – for Schools
Jungle Explorer Workshop – for SCHOOLS
Adventure-based EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS for PRIMARY SCHOOLS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, MAT’s & INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS
Looking for a complete enrichment experience?
This workshop can be booked standalone or combined with John’s Inspirational Jungle Expedition Talk for a complete full-day experience! More info here: Primary School Jungle Programme, Secondary School Jungle Programme, Independent School Jungle Programme.
Step Into the Shoes of Real Jungle Explorers
TEAMWORK • TRUST • LEADERSHIP • RESILIENCE
The Jungle Explorer Workshop turns your school hall, sports hall, or playing field into a remote rainforest expedition base. Led by real-life jungle explorer and survival expert John Sullivan, this hands-on course takes students beyond listening and throws them directly into the action.
Using authentic expedition kit, real jungle survival equipment, and genuine cultural artefacts, students work in small teams to solve practical wilderness scenarios.
Activities include:
• Emergency Shelter Building
• Stretcher Carry Challenges
• Snake Pit Communication tasks
• Water Source missions
• Child-Friendly Axe Throwing
• Rescue Knot Challenges
• Quicksand Crossing
• Tactical teamwork exercises
Each session is built around a series of fast-paced, engaging, and highly interactive team challenges designed to push groups out of their comfort zones while creating fun, memorable, and confidence-building experiences. Sessions will strengthen team spirit, improve communication under pressure, and develop the mentality of a resilient, high-performing team.
All activities are professionally supervised and adapted to suit different ages, key stages, and abilities.
What Students & Teachers Gain:
Teamwork & Trust:
Students learn to rely on each other, listen to diverse ideas, and execute plans as a unified expedition unit.
Clear Communication:
Interactive missions encourage students to articulate ideas calmly and clearly under time pressure.
Resilience & Growth Mindset:
Reframing failure as a learning tool, and encouraging perseverance when initial ideas don’t work.
Creative Problem-Solving:
Applying logic, science, and lateral thinking to solve real-world jungle survival puzzles.
Adaptable for Every Age Group & School Setting:
No two schools and no two age groups are identical. John adapts the complexity, vocabulary, physical tasks, and leadership expectations to suit your specific cohort:
Primary Schools (KS1 & KS2):
High-energy, story-driven missions emphasizing cooperation, foundational map skills, sensory gear exploration, and self-confidence.
Secondary Schools (KS3 & KS4):
Advanced problem-solving, real-world survival science, time-pressured leadership missions, and character-building scenarios ideal for team bonding or Duke of Edinburgh prep.
Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) & School Clusters:
Scalable enrichment days and cluster-wide events designed to deliver consistent, high-impact learning across multiple schools or year-group cohorts within a trust.
Independent Schools & Colleges:
Bespoke enrichment days, outdoor leadership challenges, transition support, and specialised sessions linked to CCF, outdoor education, or pastoral programmes.
LOCATION & SPACE REQUIREMENTS
Where it happens: Delivered directly at your school.
Space options: School field, grass area, forest school site, main assembly hall, or sports hall (fully adaptable indoors for bad weather).
National Curriculum & Personal Development Alignment
Subject Lead Summary: Every activity module is structured to support key learning targets across National Curriculum frameworks, secondary character education, and independent school pastoral development.
🌍 Geography & Earth Sciences
How The Workshop Aligns:
Navigation, map reading, compass bearings, biomes, climate zones, and human adaptation to global environments.
🔬 STEM & Applied Science
How The Workshop Aligns:
Material properties (shelters), fluid dynamics and gravity (water challenge), human survival needs, and practical engineering.
🧠 PSHE, Character & Leadership
How The Workshop Aligns:
Team dynamics, growth mindset, active listening, peer support, self-belief, and personal resilience under pressure.
🌱 Environmental & Global Awareness
How The Workshop Aligns:
Respecting natural habitats, Leave No Trace principles, and rainforest conservation ethics.
🏆 Outdoor Education & CCF / DofE
How The Workshop Aligns:
Practical navigation skills, rope work, team-building under pressure, and wilderness leadership principles.
HALF DAY Adventure Challenge:
EMERGENCY SHELTER BUILDING
Practical challenge
Students work together to design and construct emergency shelters using the materials provided while developing communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
snake pit COMMUNICATION challenge
Practical challenge
A communication-focused activity where teams must guide and support each other through restricted zones using trust, listening and leadership.
water source challenge
Practical challenge
Groups work together to transport and protect valuable water supplies using creative problem-solving and teamwork under time pressure.
EMERGENCY RESCUE KNOT CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
Teams learn and complete practical rescue knot and rope challenges under pressure while working together to solve problems and complete rescue-based objectives. This challenge develops teamwork, communication, coordination and focus.
STRETCHER CARRY CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
A fast-paced rescue scenario where teams transport a casualty from Point A to Point B using teamwork, coordination and communication under pressure.
CHILD-FRIENDLY AXE THROWING CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
A safe and exciting precision-based activity where participants learn basic throwing techniques using specially adapted child-friendly throwing equipment under close supervision. No real axes are used. This challenge helps develop focus, coordination, confidence and discipline.
WINNING TEAM PSYCHOLOGY TALK
Motivational Talk
A motivational talk from the event organiser exploring the importance of self-belief, resilience and the mental ability of a winning team, featuring real stories and lessons learned from personal expedition and survival adventures.
Full-Day ADVENTURE CHALLENGE:
EMERGENCY SHELTER BUILDING
Practical challenge
Teams work together to design and construct emergency shelters using the materials provided while developing communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
snake pit COMMUNICATION challenge
Practical challenge
A communication-focused activity where teams must guide and support each other through restricted zones using trust, listening and leadership.
water source challenge
Practical challenge
Groups work together to transport and protect valuable water supplies using creative problem-solving and teamwork under time pressure.
EMERGENCY RESCUE KNOT CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
Teams learn and complete practical rescue knot and rope challenges under pressure while working together to solve problems and complete rescue-based objectives. This challenge develops teamwork, communication, coordination and focus.
STRETCHER CARRY CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
A fast-paced rescue scenario where teams transport a casualty from Point A to Point B using teamwork, coordination and communication under pressure.
CHILD-FRIENDLY AXE THROWING CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
A safe and exciting precision-based activity where participants learn basic throwing techniques using specially adapted child-friendly throwing equipment under close supervision. No real axes are used. This challenge helps develop focus, coordination, confidence and discipline.
MEMORY MAP CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
After searching the local area for resources, teams must recreate an improvised relief map from memory. This challenge requires every team member to memorise key details and collectively contribute information using communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills.
HELICOPTER RETRIEVAL CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
Teams must retrieve essential equipment using a series of ropes and pulleys, requiring teamwork, coordination and clear communication to complete the mission successfully. Suitable for both indoor and outdoor sessions.
QUICKSAND CROSSING CHALLENGE
Practical challenge
Whilst exploring, teams must work together to identify and navigate a safe walking route through the quicksand using memory, communication and problem-solving skills under pressure.
LEADERSHIP MISSIONS
Practical challenge
WINNING TEAM PSYCHOLOGY TALK
Motivational Talk
A motivational talk from the event organiser exploring the importance of self-belief, resilience and the mental ability of a winning team, featuring real stories and lessons learned from personal expedition and survival adventures.
- Water Source Challenge
Student Awards- Blindfolded Navigation
- Snake Pit Challenge
Rescue & Shelter
The Ultimate Adventure Kids Birthday Party – Search & Rescue Mission
The Ultimate Adventure Children’s Birthday Party – Water Source Challenge
First Aid
Signalling for Help
Plane Crash Exercise
Snake Pit Challenge
Keep In Mind Challenge- The Ultimate Adventure Children’s Birthday Party – Snake Pit Challenge
Survival Kit
Hammock & Banshee
Blindfolded Navigation
Plane Crash Exercise- Memory Map Challenge
- Campsite
- Positive Mindset Talk
Hen Party On The Wild Side – Search & Rescue Missio
School Survival Camp- Search & Rescue
Rescue & First Aid
Den Building
Primary School Brochure
Secondary School Brochure
INDEPENDENT School Brochure
to book:
Please give us a call on 07804 915407 or request a callback through our enquiry form to discuss your schools specific requirements, check availability and to get a quote.