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Children's Workshops.

These imaginative and engaging workshops are designed to incorporate the indoor and outdoor classrooms of your school. They can be easily adapted to meet the needs of the children in your class and the vagaries of the weather. From experience, they work equally well with one class all day, or different classes throughout the day, allowing some or all of the children in your school the opportunity to participate.


Creating a sense of place in your school grounds.
It is a well established fact that children with a sound sense of place are more secure and confident. This programme allows children to become more familiar with their immediate... read more

Woodland Crafts & Forest skills.
A highly creative programme, this is an opportunity for children to truly experience the outdoor classroom, allowing them to learn through experimentation and taking greater responsibility for their own actions... read more

Natures art.
Children can discover the vast range of possibilities for interpreting the natural world in creative art form. They can discover and explore a wonderfully diverse and exciting new world on... read more

Working with willow.
Working in this pliable and versatile medium, children can create a living willow bower and then play in their own dome or tunnel maze. Other wonderful creations that they can... read more

Creative storytelling and story making.
After meeting the woodland wonderer story teller and listening to the magical tales of the baga waga witch, children will be become the keepers of a magical story bag which... read more

Together we stand, divided we fall.
As the title suggests, this programme is all about teamwork, co-operation and collaboration. This is the perfect opportunity for classes and year groups to develop their identity and co... read more

Maps, mapping and ICT.
This session focuses on how to bringing maps alive and develop a wide range of map skills in a variety of real and stimulating contexts. These very practical and hands... read more

Real rivers in the classroom!
Using a large interactive model of a drainage basin, children will have the opportunity to:

> Map current physical features and predict changes to the drainage basin when... read more

The global dimension-Distant places.
Learning about distant places is made far more meaningful when the children can use all their senses to discover and explore new and also familiar things. Using a box of... read more

Fieldwork. Own Locality past, present, future.
Our own locality is one of the greatest resources that we have for effective and meaningful fieldwork. This workshop imaginatively explores a host of different ways of investigating the character... read more




girl sitting in a clearing


hands and sticks


children toasting marshmallows over a camp fire


natures art


working with willow


team building exercise


friend leading boy in blindfold


girl studying a square metre


model of river bank


tibetan children


girl bug hunting


reading maps

green leaves