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Free to Learn: Home Education Woodland Group
Our “Free to Learn’’ Home education group is a unique and exciting opportunity for young people to fully engage and learn in nature. We are offering a full woodland day every week throughout the year (term time) to become immersed in our magnificent ancient woodland site. Participants will be dropped off and left with our qualified and experienced staff team led by Luke Funnell. We aim to create a safe and secure environment in which we can empower and entrust participants to explore and push their own physical and emotional capabilities. we want to bring the outdoors alive in ways that will in turn inspire participants to want to continue their own learning journey.
Free to Play will include:
• Advanced Bushcraft and survival
Traditional fire lighting skills, foraging, campfire cooking, traditional tool making, green woodworking, survival kills, natural cordage and woodcraft.
• Conservation and woodland management
Participants will engage in ongoing environmental education, gaining a greater knowledge and understanding of ecology and bio diversity. They will learn woodland management and conservation skills, including tree felling and habitat creation
• Woodland construction
Explore and create sustainable woodland constructions with resources gathered in the woodland
• Nature connection and community development
Throughout the course we will explore a range of nature connection activities including mindfulness and basic nature philosophy, to help create close and trusting relationships within the group and with the wider environment. We aim to create a community in which all individuals feel valued and supported socially and emotionally. We will also encourage all participants to review and reflect on their own learning journey regularly.