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Our activities are a fabulous introduction to the wonders of the natural world, whilst also teaching co-operation and awareness of the impact of actions upon other people and the environment.  Hands on history; anthropology; geology; biology; ecology; science - just a few subjects they won’t even realise they are learning!

We can work with you to tailor activities to the National Curriculum and focus on specific subjects from our activities list to compliment current projects and study and are currently in the process of designing a programme to specifically tie into the various key stages of the curriculum.

We also sell Field Studies Council Nature Guides in our shop and offer special rates to Schools when buying in bulk.  Please enquire, advising quantities and outlining the guides you are interested in purchasing.

Please contact us if you would like any further information.

     

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Wild Connections on a School Visit to Yule Farm - Monmouthshire Beacon

Article in Monmouthshire Beacon - School visit to Yule Farm, one of our new locations, enhanced by Wild Connections.


Following a consultation meeting with Mr Kathrada, we organised a bespoke morning of activity at Wild Connections HQ for himself and his son to enhance his home education.  The son in question is also an avid fan of Mr Mears and wanted to learn all about the different ways of lighting fire in the outdoors, in particular fire by friction - cue a great excuse to teach chemistry and physics principals, history and anthropology, and have a lot of fun into the bargain!  Both father and son demonstrated great natural abilities in the practical elements, especially Mr K who broke the current Wild Connections record for the fastest successful fire by friction by someone new to the technique.

The session was followed up with challenges from us for further homework to look at the principles involved and further reports and photos from H to show his progress at home with the skills he had learned with us.  The morning was such a success, Mr K booked us for an activity with the boy's group of the Friendship Cafe - see private events for details.

"To Duncan

I liked it at your house.  My best bit was the chemical reaction.  I liked fire by friction!  My dad made a spindle that didn’t work before I came to your house.  When I next see you I will show it to you.

When we got back I showed my Mum an ember that we made with the bow drill set, and me and Daddy made a fire.  I have got three logs from Robinswood Hill and I tied them up to make a tripod outside my back door and I hung my billy can over it to make tea.  We had hard boiled eggs like in Ray Mears, but it exploded!!!  And we had sausages and beans from the fire, and I cooked toast on a stick.  There’s a photograph that is called Boys Campfire and you can see my toast cooking and my tripod.  And there is another photograph called Campfire Close Up and you can see the end of the fire and you can see the egg and the bottom of the billy can.

I’ve been collecting tinder.  I have collected dried leaves and I found some silver birch and we found some seed heads from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Slimbridge.  We collected a bag of kindling from Slimbridge as well, and before that we got some sticks from Gloucester Park with my friend.  You are going to see some of my friends, and the friend that I collected the sticks with and some other boys when I next see you.

From H"

There they blow!


We organised a bespoke 3 hour bushcraft session for Woodcraft Folk in Stroud, introducing the kids to the bushcraft fundamentals of fire, water and shelter. Woodcraft Folk were formed based on the writings of Ernest Thompson Seton - for more information please see details of how to buy a copy of his Woodcraft and Indian Lore book in the Book and DVD department of our shop.

We all really enjoyed the session which was informative and interesting and has inspired
us to concentrate on more bushcraft activities next term. We'd like to develop the
shelter idea maybe at our next camp."

"The 3 hrs went too fast we could easily have stayed in the woods all day"

Val Saunders and Helyn Morris of Woodcraft Folk in Stroud

   
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