Our Positive Action programme ensures our trading profits benefit the community directly, by offering free and subsidised spaces to children and young people who are historically excluded from outdoor provision.
This Easter, feedback from a parent from this provision made me quite emotional. The children made friends, came back feeling calm and happy and up beat at a time that they would usually find stressful, spent the rest of the holidays experimenting in the garden with some of the knew skills they had learnt, and shared those skills with extended family.
Here's some photos of the natural art they have created in their garden after spending time with us. We look forward to welcoming them to our next holiday club.
#enabling #equalityofaccess
This Easter, feedback from a parent from this provision made me quite emotional. The children made friends, came back feeling calm and happy and up beat at a time that they would usually find stressful, spent the rest of the holidays experimenting in the garden with some of the knew skills they had learnt, and shared those skills with extended family.
Here's some photos of the natural art they have created in their garden after spending time with us. We look forward to welcoming them to our next holiday club.
#enabling #equalityofaccess
Today we welcomed the women of Chopwell back to Forest Lunch Club after a long lockdown break.
What a wonderful way to restart!
With thanks to a participant who is still self isolating but contributed remotely by providing us with the tools and energy to facilitate in an energy clearing ceremony using Hyssop.
We created a boundary, swept our negative energy towards the fire, burnt what we wanted to clear and made space for the things we wanted to see more of in our lives.
The group then filled envelopes with intentions for the year and planted sunflowers to nurture and grow with their intentions.
We welcomed 2 new women, shared toast and jam, and enjoyed the positivity and creativity that everyone contributed to the session.
Well Newcastle GatesheadNorth East Wilds CIC
What a wonderful way to restart!
With thanks to a participant who is still self isolating but contributed remotely by providing us with the tools and energy to facilitate in an energy clearing ceremony using Hyssop.
We created a boundary, swept our negative energy towards the fire, burnt what we wanted to clear and made space for the things we wanted to see more of in our lives.
The group then filled envelopes with intentions for the year and planted sunflowers to nurture and grow with their intentions.
We welcomed 2 new women, shared toast and jam, and enjoyed the positivity and creativity that everyone contributed to the session.
Well Newcastle GatesheadNorth East Wilds CIC
Our Wild Wednesday group has grown again - and there was so much to share on site and beyond! Regular expeditions to the ravine where a zip line was constructed and children supported one another to take the leap. We foraged nettles for a delicious nettle soup, with wild garlic and wood sorrel to add flavour. Firelighting, hammock swinging and treehouse renovations were on the menu too. A forest school newspaper is also in production! Some children made woodland spinners, slicing wood cookies, drilling holes, tying string and making elder beads for the handles - it takes skill and concentration to make and operate these spinners, but they're definitely worth it.
Mel from Prudhoe West KS1 bubble says.....
Great fun session at Prudhoe West tonight with a lot of energy to burn. We laid out a fire circle to practice our fire safety one more time before we have a real fire next week (hooray!). We also had lots of role play in the hollybush, mining for diamonds, making necklaces, and identifying woodland plants. We discovered a flower was wood sorrel, which Mel and Caroline hadn't realised could flower. We then tried eating it, whilst remembering to always ask a grown up before eating any wild plants. See you all next week.
Great fun session at Prudhoe West tonight with a lot of energy to burn. We laid out a fire circle to practice our fire safety one more time before we have a real fire next week (hooray!). We also had lots of role play in the hollybush, mining for diamonds, making necklaces, and identifying woodland plants. We discovered a flower was wood sorrel, which Mel and Caroline hadn't realised could flower. We then tried eating it, whilst remembering to always ask a grown up before eating any wild plants. See you all next week.
Tuesday KS2 at Prudhoe West
We made clay faces on the trees, learnt how to do a clove hitch, created a cat hotel and plaque for our beloved forest school cat (who the group decided to name Jess today); we also had our first fire together, crafted hammers and bows out of sticks and wool, plus continued the epic digging to Australia!
We made clay faces on the trees, learnt how to do a clove hitch, created a cat hotel and plaque for our beloved forest school cat (who the group decided to name Jess today); we also had our first fire together, crafted hammers and bows out of sticks and wool, plus continued the epic digging to Australia!
