Residential Experience
The Cott is open all the year and as with many centres it is seeking to diversify to survive the post-2008 financial climate. It now offers self catering bunkhouse style accommodation and runs National Governing Body Awards and adventure courses for adults.
Much emphasis is placed on the residential experience and educating the whole student as a stark contrast to the exam driven, results centred ethos of today’s schools. Students look after themselves, help serve meals, wash and tidy up. This team work and an emphasis that with rights come responsibilities helps prepare students for the real world outside of school. Such core values tie in with national Every Child Matters and SEAL Agendas and mean that the Ogwen experience is as relevant now as it was in the 1950s.
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