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FOREST SCHOOL AND STEAM SPORTY HOLIDAY CAMP

Join us for a Spring STEAM programme with engaging fun activities, using your imagination, and lots of time for playing outside
10am-4pm with additional hours 8.30am-6pm

Our Spring programme is available to book

Throughout the holiday: CREATIVE YOUNG SCIENTISTS sessions for all ages including Edible Science taste experiments – Fizzy, Sweet and Sour, looking at ultraviolet light making glowing ice cubes and water beads using tonic water, extracting DNA of strawberries, and making DIY butter. Look forward to the scientific vocabulary, and recording our hypotheses and findings
1st WEEK

Mornings, breaktimes and lunchtimes: Sport and playground games / obstacle courses with Coach Julie Nworgu – Sporty playground games include playground team games – Monsterball, Dragon’s jewel, Orient Express, Tulip, Sharkey-Sharkey, and obstacle courses, for example. Also ‘hand/eye’ skill games, Volley ball, Handball, Tennis and own-choice games to burn off that high energy. Enjoyable for the sporty and non-sporty alike

Morning Art sessions with Art Student, Tish Peel: 30, 31, 1st Talking about Picasso and Salvador D’Ali – crazy coupage! Also included are: playing art games – head bodies and legs, having fun with thumb and hand prints, Jackson Pollack style paint-flicking in the courtyard and mini versions with toothbrushes, endless patterns based on the artist, Bridget Riley, making your portrait (yourself) into a superhero, making drawings from observations of germs, still life studies of the Cavendish cherry blossom tree, drawing around yourself and measuring. Decorating boiled eggs for the weekend with parsley prints and red onion dye

30,31, and 1st Morning sessions – Creative Young Scientists (see above)

31st, 1st: Show us how you bake! Morning Cooking sessions with Chef Josephine – Take home Home-made cookies and mini pizzas

30th March afternoon: Sound workshop with multi-instrumentalist, sound artist and founder of SCHOOL OF NOISE, Dan Mayfield for children 5-12yrs. This STEAM workshop will be asking what a FOLEY ARTIST actually does?!

2nd April: Workshop LULLABY FOR THE WORLD which is all-day interactive session for all ages based on a song by Kad Achouri (composer, producer and multi-linguist) exploring instruments such as Bongos, Darbuka, Pandeiro and Agogo bells and encouraging music, writing, and singing

Skateboard sessions with North London Skate Club on Monday 30th March and Tuesday 7th April, 4:15-5:15pm

2^nd WEEK

Mornings 8-10th: Sport and playground games / obstacle courses with Coach Julie Nworgu – Sporty playground games include playground team games – Monsterball, Dragon’s jewel, Orient Express, Tulip, Sharkey-Sharkey, and obstacle courses, for example. Also ‘hand/eye’ skill games, Volley ball, Handball, Tennis and own-choice games to burn off that high energy. Enjoyable for the sporty and non-sporty alike

8^th 2pm Trip to performance of ‘TIme Sliders’ at the New Diorama Theatre for 7-12s https://newdiorama.com/whats-on/time-sliders

7, 8, and 10th: Morning sessions – Creative Young Scientists (see above)

7th and 8th: Show us how you bake! Morning Cooking sessions with Chef Josephine (8th April 1:30-3:30pm 3-6s groups trip, walking up the road to use the professional kitchen at the Pirate Castle 5 mins away)

8, 9, 10th April: Music sessions with Leke Akinyemi including Djembes, rhythm and song

Continuous provision: We will have playground time, cosy-corner story time, reading time, cooking (cold) activities, measuring things, building towers, Lego activities, jigsaws, games, building with cardboard boxes and recycling materials, percussion instruments, encouraging role-play, imaginative games, and child-choice arts and crafts

The location is Regent’s park/Primrose Hill/St Mark’s Garden for the FOREST SCHOOL groups. We are able to do fire-making, bush craft skills (weather dependent) and be able to enjoy all day outside

Our Spring programme is available to book

Click here for NEWS FOR SUMMER 2026 – booking is now open

Terms and Conditions are updated – please check them out before you book as we will be keeping to them this year and encourage everyone to keep credit with us for a change in booking
Ofsted no. EY444368

Afternoon, break-times and wrap-around: We will have playground time, cosy-corner story time, reading time, cooking (cold) activities, measuring things, building towers, Lego activities, jigsaws, games, building with cardboard boxes and recycling materials, percussion instruments, encouraging role-play, imaginative games, and child-choice arts and crafts

:) The location is Regent’s park/Primrose Hill/St Mark’s Garden for the Forest school groups. We are able to do fire-making, bush craft skills (weather dependent) and be able to enjoy all day outside (extended hours available) :)

Finding the cognitive and academic benefits for children through
having fun, making friends, and engaging in play at Holiday Academy

“Yours is the only club my 5 & 7 year old LOVE!”

Please see our testimonial here

To encourage reading over the holidays we have a Holiday Academy day-camp ‘book box’ at the entrance for swapping books for all ages – please take advantage of this!

Terms and Conditions apply, and we reserve the right to change venue or any part of the programme to best accommodate the children’s needs.

Our Outdoor FOREST SCHOOL is an inspirational alternative learning experience which takes
place on a regular basis outdoors in natural settings and across all seasons

Different activities each holiday
How lucky are we to have parks so close by! We go exploring the natural environment in these green spaces: den/shelter building, making hot chocolate in Kelly kettles, team games and making friends, nature crafts, getting muddy, and having a great adventure
Outdoor kitchen cooking, learning to make fires safely, and cooking delicious camp fire food
Waterproof, outdoor jacket, trousers and boots essential –as are long sleeves, hat or cap and sun screen in Summer.
Find out more about Forest School ethos here

*Booking Forest School for the full week is recommended as each session is linked. Prices and dates

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*We reserve the right to change the programme

Sample Timetable for the creative/sporty daycamp

*Our basic timetable (‘clubs’ are extra to this)

8.30 – EARLY BIRD Activities include: Art, Games/puzzles, Percussion instruments, Books, Den-building
10-10.30 – WARM UP/WELCOME
10.30-11.10 – Music or Drama/Dance or Sport – Wash hands for snack
11.10-11.30 – SNACK TIME
11.30-12.10 – Music or Drama/Dance or Sport
12.15-12.50 – Music or Drama/Dance or Sport–Wash hands for lunch/Morning-only pickup time
13.00-13.45 – LUNCH
13.45-14.45 – Art/Craft – Sport/Games – Den-building – Storytelling etc
14.50-15.50 – Art/Craft – Sport/Games – Den-building – Story telling– Gather up belongings for Home time/Wash hands for snack
16.00-16.15 – SNACK/Extended day Reviewing the day, Art/Crafts, Games, Books, Den-building
18.00 – HOMETIME

*We reserve the right to changes in the staff/programme

Creative STEAM and Sports Day camp

Terms and Conditions apply, and we reserve the right to change venue or any part of the programme to best accommodate the children’s needs.

Our Outdoor FOREST SCHOOL is an inspirational alternative learning experience which takes place on a regular basis outdoors in natural settings and across all seasons

Sample Timetable for the creative/sporty daycamp

Our Outdoor FOREST SCHOOL is an inspirational alternative learning experience which takes
place on a regular basis outdoors in natural settings and across all seasons