Explore Our Range of Activities
Activities
We have an incredible range of activities including STEAM Workshops, Adventure & Team Sports.
Adventure Sports include Kayaking, Water Park, Assault Course, High Ropes, Zip Line, Archery and Orienteering.
Team Sports include Basketball, Volleyball, Football, Dodge Ball, Hurling, Water Polo, Swimming, Hockey, Tennis, Rounders, Tag Rugby, Handball, Team Challenges among others.
STEAM Workshops: include 3D Modeling & Printing, Music Technology, Coding, Film Production, Flight, Drones, Rockets, Chemistry Experiments, Physics Experiments, Wind Energy, Sound Production, Robotics, Stop Motion Animation, Green Screen Production, Podcasting & Broadcasting, Band Performance, Arts and Crafts and more.
There are a host of other activities and social events such as Karaoke, Movie Awards Night, Dragon’s Den, Table Tennis, Pool, Board Games, Excursions and many others for students to enjoy throughout their stay with us.
An adrenalin fuelled activity on the High Ropes and Zip Line.
Students enjoy a wide range of team challenges from blindfolded assault courses to coordinated plank races and dice games, team work is the key. On arrival day, students are immediately involved in these team challenges and ice breakers and by the time they’re going to supper they’ve made great friends and have settled in.
Kayaking takes place on campus on Rockwell Lake and all levels from beginners upwards are catered for. All equipment is provided.
A great recent addition to CMA Summer Camp at Rockwell, students can enjoy all the thrills and spills of the Water Park on campus on Rockwell Lake. *(Rockwell Only)
Orienteering is a sport that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed, equipped with a topographical map (a specially prepared orienteering map), which they use to find control points.
Students enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the woods for Archery. A firm favourite.
An assault course on campus on Rockwell Lake including rafting, rope bridges, zip line and other challenging obstacles for students to manoeuvre. (*Rockwell Only)
An assault course on campus on Rockwell Lake including rafting, rope bridges, zip line and other challenging obstacles for students to manoeuvre. (*Rockwell Only)
An adrenalin fuelled activity on the High Ropes and Zip Line.
Orienteering is a sport that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed, equipped with a topographical map (a specially prepared orienteering map), which they use to find control points.
A great recent addition to CMA Summer Camp at Rockwell, students can enjoy all the thrills and spills of the Water Park on campus on Rockwell Lake. *(Rockwell Only)
Students enjoy a wide range of team challenges from blindfolded assault courses to coordinated plank races and dice games, team work is the key. On arrival day, students are immediately involved in these team challenges and ice breakers and by the time they’re going to supper they’ve made great friends and have settled in.
Kayaking takes place on campus on Rockwell Lake and all levels from beginners upwards are catered for. All equipment is provided.
Students enjoy the wonderful atmosphere of the woods for Archery. A firm favourite.
Exploring how wind energy works and then assembling model Wind Turbines and demonstrating what energy can be produced by the wind. Measurements are taken to see the power in the wind on any particular day.
Creating and producing stop motion animations using models, plasticine, drawings, graphics and other methods. Stop Motion movies are shown at the ever popular Movie Awards night with great prizes on offer.
Exploring what sound is, how it’s produced and discovering sound waves, frequencies, vibrations and visual patterns created by Chladni plates and drums and different instruments.
Exploring, designing and building water rockets using compressed air. Looking at Newton’s Third Law and ratios.
Students get to explore different instruments like electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and just about anything that can make music, form a band and perform together. Loads of fun and very loud!
Using programming languages such as scratch in conjunction with Raspberry Pi Technology to remotely control robots through various mazes and other challenges.
Writing, recording and producing podcasts of various themes and topics, while also exploring which microphones, cables, software packages and mixing desks etc are best suited for different situations.
Exploring various patterns and ratios evident in nature, art, film, and music such as Fibonacci, The Golden Ratio and wave machines. Game Theory is also explore. These concepts are applied to other creative workshops such as sound production, music technology, 3D printing and film production.
Students create musical tracks using sequencers such as Garage Band and Logic Pro, and can sample sounds and record live instruments to add to the tracks. Tracks can also be used as soundtracks for their movies and Green Screen Productions.
Exploring the key concepts of motion, speed, distance and time through interactive and highly engaging workshops whether, for example, calculating speed of flying objects such as drones and planes, or the speed of an arrow in archery or your own speed while running or indeed surfing using GoPro cameras. Students also use iPads to record and analyse flight paths of…
Using tiny handheld programmable computers that can create musical instruments and robots among others. These workshops are complimented with Coding & Robotics workshops.
The ever-popular Karaoke night. Students can enjoy a wonderful evening of Karaoke with great spot prizes and loads of fun.
CMA has a wide range of team sports including basketball, volleyball, handball, dodge ball, football, tennis, hockey, rounders, hurling, tag rugby, swimming and water polo. At CMA Rockwell Campus, we have world class sporting facilities including indoor gym, indoor swimming pool, Water Park & Assault Course on Rockwell Lake, Astro turf and grass playing fields, tennis, basketball and volleyball courts.…