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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"
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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