Atlantic Adventure Experience (AAE), UWC Atlantic

An outdoor adventure course for young people with a shared interest in challenge, built to resemble the adventures that are part of life at UWC Atlantic. Guided by experienced and qualified practitioners, participants develop physical and mental skills through a variety of outdoor activities in areas of natural beauty around South Wales, from sea adventures such as sailing and exploring deep caves to rock adventures such as climbing and scrambling. The course also looks at the lifelong benefits of time outdoors and of an active, healthy lifestyle.

The course fee covers all programme fees, boarding, catering and GuardMe insurance, and includes an optional transfer to and from Heathrow Airport with pick-up and drop-off as set out in the course pack. Flights are not covered.

Participants board on the UWC Atlantic campus at St Donat's Castle for the whole course; accommodation is included in the fee and pastoral care is provided by the college team.

Catering is included in the course fee and provided on campus for the whole stay.

Activities take place on the water and on rock around South Wales: sailing, exploring deep caves, climbing and scrambling, with teamwork running through the whole programme.

The course is based on the campus of UWC Atlantic, a United World College in the twelfth-century St Donat's Castle on the Glamorgan coast of South Wales. Boarding and catering are part of the course fee, and the campus is the base for activities in the surrounding coast and countryside.

Participants come together from different countries around a shared appetite for adventure, work in teams to get through challenges set by the instructors, and finish the week with new skills and friendships made outdoors.