An amateur promotional film produced by Ronald Lax Miller, then Headteacher of the Dukeshouse Wood Camp School near Hexham in Northumberland, highlighting some of the educational and sporting activities available at the centre for pupils of Gateshead Local Education Authority and Cleveland County. The film features students of various ages attending nature classes and exploring the surrounding woodland as well as the nearby Vindolanda archaeological site. The film also features more fun...

An amateur promotional film produced by Ronald Lax Miller, then Headteacher of the Dukeshouse Wood Camp School near Hexham in Northumberland, highlighting some of the educational and sporting activities available at the centre for pupils of Gateshead Local Education Authority and Cleveland County. The film features students of various ages attending nature classes and exploring the surrounding woodland as well as the nearby Vindolanda archaeological site. The film also features more fun activities such as orienteering, canoeing, camping as well as rock climbing on Crag Lough. The final part of the film features a Bonfire Night party with those attending bobbing for apples, playing pass-the-parcel and dancing. Autumnal trees surrounding the Dukeshouse Wood Camp School. In a classroom two girls sit at a table writing and drawing in an exercise book various plant and insect life in a tray beside them. Another girl uses a magnifier to take a closer look at one of the items in the tray. At another table, a teenage boy holds a red mushroom or fungi in his hand. A school group goes exploring through a wood, they pass a herd of cows walking across a field. The group stop and look at leaves on an oak tree, some of the children pull the branches closer to get a better look. They continue exploring looking at a number of trees and bushes, the leave autumnal browns. Samples are collected and stored in a plastic bag. One boy carefully picks up and looks at a twig, a small insect is attached to the end of it. Ants scurry through the undergrowth. A school party all wearing blue bobble hats arrive at Vindolanda walking past a porto-cabin classroom towards the site of the Roman auxiliary fort. A man carrying a rucksack and wearing a red bobble hat speaks to the school party before given them a tour of the archaeological site. General views of the remains of the Roman fort as well as the replica of a section of Hadrian’s Wall. Inside a Nissen hut the school party look over displays on shelves and in glass cases of items discovered on the site. A man in a flat cap sits at a desk beside the huts entrance. At Corbridge two boys walk past St Andrew's church entering the churchyard where they look at a grave. They make notes of it on sheets of paper they are holding. Sitting on the steps of a market cross two girls write notes and draw images onto sheets of paper attached to clipboards they are holding. They get up and walk towards a shop called ‘Unwearoutable’. A plaque showing a bronze lion on the side of a statue or building, beside it a bronze plaque to ‘Hugh Percy Duke of Northumberland’. Back at the Dukeshouse Wood Camp a number of young people stand around a swimming pool. On the water a girl in a canoe, she rolls it over coming back to the surface. A boy sits in the canoe, an instructor holds the rear twisting it from side-to-side simulating rough water, a woman watches with interest nearby. The instructor watches as the boy in the canoe flips it 360 degrees several times. A second canoe on the water, the boy in it helping another flip his canoe. Another older boy in a canoe is twisted by the instructor, another canoe this time containing five people paddles forward and back across the pool before being flipped and everyone falling out. A young man is filmed in slow motion flipping his canoe, the sequence ends with students canoeing downstream along the River Tyne. Two young boys walk past one of the school classrooms and speaks with a man sitting on a bench. He gives them some paperwork after which they rush off. Three other boys rush past, one looks at an Ordinance Survey map plotting a route on an orienteering course. A phantom car ride along country roads eventually passing three boys walking along the road in the opposite direction. The boys look at a map deciding the next direction to take. The phantom car journey continues slowing to allow two people on horseback to pass. A boy is a red waterproof jacket walks past; the car continues its journey. Autumnal trees and a bridge crossing a fast-flowing river changes to a sunrise over a rural landscape. Four tents are erected on moorland, some of their occupants are up standing nearby. Inside on the of the tents a book looks out. At the top of Crag Lough, a young man wearing a helmets sorts a set of ropes. At the bottom of the Crag a teacher in a white helmet with the number ‘9’ painted in it speaks with a group of boys. One of them begins to climb, another instructor below giving advise and directions. The teacher in the white helmet begins to climb, at the top the young man throws down a rope. The instructor watches as a boy checks over his harness before climbing. In a field near to the Dukeshouse Wood Camp boys and girls play a game of rounders. Two boys stand on the bonnet of a van washing the roof using a hose and sponge. Others help washing the vehicle. The sunsets through the branches of a tree changes to a display of fireworks and a large bonfire. In a classroom children bob for apples in bowls of water. Sitting in a circle they play a game of pass-the-parcel, the one holding the ‘parcel’ when the music stops ripping at the wrapping. A boy and girl attempt to bite an apple hanging down in front of them on a piece of string without using their hands. The apple now swings from side-to-side making the task harder. The film ends with the children dancing happily. End title: The end