Topics for Curriculum & Child Led Exploring at Wrekin Forest School & Beyond
Wild adventure at home or in school, everything from Survival & Bushcraft, Team building & Forest School are great ways to fulfil many of the core developmental milestones and educational requirements for children and young people. We seeks to work with groups of individual learners who have unique needs, abilities and interests and are at different stages of development. Our desire is to encourage young people to get outdoors exploring wherever they are.
We pride ourselves in providing a unique environment for those with a wide range of needs including those that may need special consideration and facilities, we have worked hard to create sensory areas including our sensory herb garden, quiet hammocks in which to relax, the bare foot walk.
Participants will explore and experience the natural world through practical activities using the
outdoors to promote cooperation, confidence, independence and self-esteem, includes the use of team-building games, archery, low ropes course & the obstacle course racing. We always do an open fire cooking activity.
Our environment will develop team building skills, assessed risk taking, problem solving skills, creative and investigative skills. We pride ourselves in helping young people develop a greater understanding of their environment.
Educational Visits -Learning & Exploring Outside the Classroom
We can provide bespoke full day & half day experiences exploring a wide range of topics and stories.
- ‘Team Building & Survival Days’, fire lighting competition, shelter building, archery, tug of war
- ‘Environmental’, let’s explore a better future and an eco response to a changing climate & world
- ‘Viking Explorers’
- ‘Stone Age’ & ‘Bronze age’ curriculum sessions
- ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’
- ‘Stick Man’ & ‘Snail Trail’ adventure days
- ‘Gruffalo’ exploring, making butterflies, constructing repeating patterns, making a bread caterpillar, threading wooden discs to making your moving caterpillar
- ‘Bushcraft & survival’, open fire cooking, shelter building, fire lighting, orienteering & compass making
- ‘Woodcraft & Weaving’ Days, using tools to be creative, weaving with willow
- Senses searchers, using your five senses to explore nature
- “Bug Trail Explorers’……get the bug pots out and the ID cards, go pond dipping & explore habitats
- Orienteering Days, a selection of orienteering activities happen during the day allowing chilren to develop skills and confidence….
Activity 1: Children rotate around 3 different tasks lasting around 25 minutes per task.
- Map orientation and route following
- Simple star orientation task
- Understanding Longitude and Latitude
- Knowing your North, South, East and West
Activity 2:
Children consider 3 orienteering tasks within a small area, they collect different items including puzzle pieces from each point marked on the map. This introduces using maps, to find markers and larger scale maps with keys. Children will need to complete the puzzle to complete the task.
Activity 3:
Children will use our whole site to complete one more orienteering course finding posts utilising their new skills. Children would take it in turns to lead the group to posts, answers create an anagram, which the children can work out once all the answers have been collected.
- All our days will involve cooking, archery and child led exploration!
Overnight stays can be added to all Forest School Fun & Exploration days.
One off visits to your location can be arranged with all the equipment and resources being supplied….£275 with two staff assisting to deliver a fantastic day of bushcraft, survival and forest school activities
You can come to us….we can come to you. General child led Forest School days or bespoke curriculum days with us, after school clubs and full days of delivering Forest School & Forest Fun sessions on your site. We are here to provide for any of your outdoor educational and explorational needs.
Prices start from:
- £11 per child if you come to us for the day (9.30am-2.30pm) with a minimum charge of £330.
- from £60 for after school clubs.
- from £110 per half day of Forest School regular sessions on your site with one team member.
- from £295 for a full day of Forest School delivered on your site with two members of our team.
All prices include basic resources, such as willow for weaving, ingredients for cooking and marshmallows for roasting.
Adults attending school visit days are not charged, but are expected to get involved.
For one off primary school visits, £11 per child, daily min charge £330 (30 children), if you come to WFS wood for one off visits with up to 90 children, this maybe as general education visit or a bespoke topic day such as a ‘Stone Age Experience Day’, ‘Stick Man Adventures’ or ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ exploration.
Equipment, resources & trained staff to lead activities such as bushcraft cookery, archery & woodcraft, insurance, drinks and marshmallows for open fire roasting are included (lunch provided by attendees). Staff ratios must be provided by the school attending.
What can I do at home?
- using your senses….seek to use you eyes, ears, nose and fingers to sense everything that is happening around you, think about how nature changes all year round. Go on walks, short walks, long walks, walk round your playground, through a local woodland, but get outside
- making seed bombs….clay, compost, wildflower seeds, mix this seeds and compost and then wrap it in the clay to make a round, moulded sphere, when made throw it in a wild space
- natural art…do this anywhere, anytime, make pictures on the ground using leaves, sticks, berries, conkers and cones
- den building, using sticks and leaves and a good tree with a V shaped lower branch, woodland spaces are ideal for this
- mud kitchen, every garden needs a mud kitchen
Please contact me directly for more information about all the options above:
Judie Udale 07888851813 or info@wrekinforestschool.co.uk