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We are willing to
visit all schools who book, each year, in order
for the children to feel at ease, and for us to
get to know them too. We encourage any leader to
make a visit to familiarise themselves with the
facilities and to discuss any programme
requirements. We are also willing to help
tailor-make your course to help you meet your
specific objectives. Groups are of course
entirely free to do their own programmes.
Our courses can
be designed to embrace all or some of the
following areas :
Promoting the
personal, social and cultural development of
students
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Team-building
skills of decision making,
problem-solving, leadership and
negotiation, Orienteering, Initiative
challenges |
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Conflict
resolution : developing the
skills of negotiation, sense of self and
other |
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Discovering the Hero within :
Using an
epic journey to explore the impact and
importance of understanding our own and
others feelings
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Cooperative
games : Encouraging freedom
of movement and physical activity as
well as cooperation, negotiation and
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Expeditions
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Kite
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Encouraging a sense
of the beauty of the natural environment, and
education for sustainable living
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Earthkeepers 1;
A 2-3 day
programme for 9-12 year olds, teaching
four concepts about how the earth works;
energy flow, cycling of the materials
air, soil, water; interrelationship of
all living and non-living things; change
over time. This is completed back at
school by looking at our lifestyle and
impact on the earth..
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Earthkeepers 2;
A follow on
programme that looks in greater detail
at how to fulfil our obligations as
members of the crew and passengers of
Sunship Earth |
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Earthcaretakers
1 day
programme which will be started and
completed at school, It focuses on
Energy flow, Food chains, and our use of
Energy and Materials.
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Time travellers
1 day
programme focussing on ancient and
recent changes in the landscape. Our
influence on future changes is addressed
further at school and home.
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Forest School
For all ages
from pre-school up: creating confidence,
encouraging independence and raising
self-esteem using the outdoor
environment, a day programme, can be
experienced on a regular basis.
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Teddy Bears Picnic
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Helps
younger children, yrs 1 & 2, understand
about the things that animals and all
living things need to survive; 1 day.
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Farm visit -
half day
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Understanding where and how food
is produced
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Experience the farm lifestyle
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Have
hands on experience
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Using senses, explore the farm
environment.
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Physical and
creative activity broadens learning and leisure
opportunities
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Pond dipping
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Earthwalks |
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Nightwatchers |
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Pollution
game |
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Recycling
Roundup |
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Craft in the
Natural Environment
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Woodworking
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Shelter
building |
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Orienteering
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Supporting the
curriculum and fostering a sense of wonder and
reflectiveness
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‘Stories’
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‘Our
World’ yrs3 & 4 Bears Picnic;
looking at the needs of living things,
appreciation of the natural world,
thanksgiving etc ; 1 day
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Using the natural
environment to aid delivery of the National
Curriculum in all subject areas
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Storytelling
workshop |
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Drama
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Environmental Art
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History of
Ringsfield:
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Victorian
and Tudor life
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