Topics for Curriculum & Child Led Exploring at Wrekin Forest School & Beyond
Wild adventure, Survival & Bushcraft, Team building & Forest School are great ways to fulfil many of the core 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.
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.
We can provide bespoke full day & half day experiences exploring a wide range of topics and stories.
- ‘Team Building & Survival Days’
- ‘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
- ‘Bushcraft & survival’, open fire cooking, shelter building, fire lighting and much more
- ‘Woodcraft & Weaving’ Days
- Senses searchers
- “Bug Trail Explorers’……get the bug pots out and the ID cards, go pond dipping & explore habitats
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:
- £10 per child if you come to us for the day (9.30am-2.30pm) with a minimum charge of £300
- from £60 for after school clubs
- £110 per half day of Forest School regular sessions on your site
- £190 for full days of Forest School delivered on your site.
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.
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
Educational Visits
For one off primary school visits, £10 per child, daily min charge £300 (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.
We can provide bespoke ‘Team Building & Survival Days’, ‘Environmental’ & ‘Stone Age’ curriculum sessions, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, ‘Stick Man’ & ‘Snail Trail’ adventure days & ‘Bushcraft, Woodcraft & Weaving’ Days. 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.
Please contact me directly for more information:
Judie Udale 07888851813 or info@wrekinforestschool.co.uk