FOREST SCHOOL AND STEAM SPORTY HOLIDAY CAMP
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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
Holiday Academy day-camp and Forest school
Cavendish school, NW1 7HB
10am-4pm with additional hours 8.30am-6pm
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The activities include using all five senses using fine and gross motor skills: art, sport, music, children’s yoga, cold cooking, and science activities.
No session is repeated unless the children request it. We have an Ant workshop on Thursday morning.
We have a continuous provision of playground time, cosy book-corner story time, reading time, cooking 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 mark making, and arts and crafts – this is what we do for early and late hours, and if any children prefer not to do a session.
There is a circle time at 10am with name games and ice-breakers, and a review at the end of the 4pm day.
🦔🦊🕷️Leke’s Music Workshops Monday – Wednesday Mornings – A fun and engaging workshop where children explore rhythm and music through body percussion, African drumming, rhythmic games, production mapping, and imaginative storytelling. Children will create music together, build confidence, develop listening skills, and express their creativity in an exciting and supportive environment, feeling the complex rhythms.
🦔🦊🕷️Street dance – Join Ilani Marriott Lodge Monday – Wednesday Mornings for some high energy dance sessions. Drawing on her experience in performance from the stage at the Barbican to films on Netflix (as Actor Samsi in Top Boy) Ilani will teach engaging routines and help young people build their dance confidence while learning Poppin! Tutting! Isolation!
🦔🦊🕷️ Jo Miller art sessions – Monday and Tuesday Mornings – Creating a detailed, articulated, skeletal human hand using straws and string, and drawing hand-silhouettes adding cotton buds. We wlll design ghost stencils and other spooky shapes, using scissors to cut them out, and charcoal and sponges for a floating effect / decorating with black felt-tip pens.
🦔🦊🕷️ Sport and playground games / obstacle courses with Coach Julie Nworgu – Morning sports including team games – Monsterball, Dragon’s jewel, Orient Express, Tulip, Sharkey-Sharkey, and obstacle courses. Also ‘hand/eye’ skill games, and own-choice to burn off that high energy, and encourage fair-play. She will be discussing the idea of how the muscles work during sport, and why we need warm ups and cool downs. Enjoyable for the sporty and non-sporty alike.
🦔🦊🕷️ Children’s yoga sessions – Wednesday and Thursday Morning with Grace Barry-Tait. Throw some shapes and follow a story-line with songs.
🦔🦊🕷️ Ants HQ workshop Thursday 9:30-11am (5-12 yrs). A hands-on sessions learning about ant biology, discover what makes ants so successful, observe live colonies and ant habitats answering all the questions arising. Did you know that worker ants take up to 250 micro-naps every day, adding up to nearly 5 hours of sleep in 24?
🦔🦊🕷️ Cooking activities Thursday Afternoon – Autumn spice recipe to bake at home using cinnamon, cardamon, and ginger. Make a pizza with a choice of toppings to make a face
🦔🦊🕷️ Science sessions – thinking about eye-balls, how the eye works and what it’s made of, playing sight games in pairs one wearing a blindfold. We will be exploring the season change – light, dark and shadows with torches, and discussing the words crepuscular, nocturnal, diurnal and cathemeral (from the latin) and other related words such as the gloaming, twilight, dusk, aurora, tenebrous, golden hour and more technically nautical twilight, civil dawn, and astronomical dawn (possibly avoiding the term ‘wee hours’, though..). We will also being discussing the ‘Hunter’s full moon’ and the August eclipse – See BBC bitesize – Spectacular things to see in the night sky
🦔🦊🕷️ Art sessions for Thursday and Friday – making a rocket launcher with a balloon, a straw and string, making monster eye-ball bunting, and making a spider web with tape and painting over it revealing the web when the tape is removed.
🦔🦊🕷️ Friday morning walk to Frieze sculptures in the English Garden, Regent’s Park. We will become Art-critics! Afternoon party with cooking activities (making popcorn and yoghurt cake in the microwave etc), catwalk recycling costumes (capes, wings, hats and costumes out of black bin-liners, white electrical tape and bandages, cardboard box robots using tin foil, pipe cleaners, bolts, balloons, and duct tape).
🦔🦊🕷️FOREST SCHOOL There will be a mixed Forest school group meeting point at Cavendish school as usual with extended hours available. The location is Regent’s park/Primrose Hill/St Mark’s Garden for the FOREST SCHOOL groups. We are able to do fire-making, nature crafts, and bush craft skills (weather dependent) and be able to enjoy all day outside.
HEADS-UP for Dec 21, 22, 23rd – we are thinking of running a Winter camp at Cavendish school with a discount programme – let us know if this would be useful!
“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
*We reserve the right to change the programme
Sample Timetable for the creative/sporty daycamp
*Our basic timetable (‘clubs’ are extra to this)
*We reserve the right to changes in the staff/programme