Wild Things Forest School

at Bishopthorpe Road, York , YO23 1JS United Kingdom

1. Educational Organization

Wild Things Forest School is a weekly forest school for parents and children. Sessions will run in local parks and woods in the York, to start Sept 2015.

Description

Wild Things Family Forest School is a weekly forest school for parents and their children. A forest school gives children the chance to play and learn in an outdoor environment. The children will learn to take manageable risks, experience outdoors in all weather, and initiate learning. Wild Things forest school will encourage children to love being outdoors. This will be done by allowing children: Time to explore outdoors through free play, this will include: • Tracking • climbing trees • rolling down hills • jumping in puddles Time to engage in more structured activities, such as: • Making mud pies • Using twigs, stick, stones, leaves to create pictures, people, animals • Hunt for bugs • Storytelling, singing and dancing • Den building • Making fairy and elf houses • Making animal habitats – bird boxes, feeders • Making kites • Making hats, wands using sticks, leaves • Bird watching • Creating sculptures • Planting seeds and bulbs for children to take home or to plant in community gardens. And time to reflect about their session around the campfire. Each session will last 1 ½ hours. The sessions during the week are aimed at parents with children aged 2-5 years. Parents with younger siblings can of course attend and participate but the structured activities will be aimed at children aged 2-5 years. Saturday and holiday sessions will be open to the whole family, including school aged children. Wild Things will run additional sessions when and where there is a demand, and will look to develop sessions for home schooled children and children that attend the Steiner school. There will be time to explore the area, take part in a structured activity and end with a camp fire with hot chocolate and food from the campfire. Wild Things is run by Emma Hill who has 20 years’ experience of working with children and families. Emma is a qualified primary school teacher, developer of teaching resources for secondary schools to help develop key skills such as creativity and emotional intelligence, advisory teacher for before and after school clubs; children centre manager and mum of two lively boys! Emma is starting Level 3 Forest School Leader qualification in June 2015, which includes paediatric and outdoor first aid training.

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Summary

Wild Things Forest School is York based place and this enity listed in Educational Organization category. Located at Bishopthorpe Road YO23 1JS. Contact phone number of Wild Things Forest School: 07968060182