We have so much to tell you about what we've been up to since our last blog post, as well as some interesting projects and events happening this September!

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What's been happening?
What's coming up?
Ongoing Services

Summer Playscheme & Forest School
Playscheme Sessions
Throughout the school holidays, we've enjoyed 4 weeks of Playscheme Sessions! The themes we have covered this summer are: Sports Day, Bake off & Nature Day, Inventors Day, Teddy Bear's Picnic, Roman's, Tudors, Medieval, 21st Century, International Youth Day, Vet Day, 7 Wonders of the world, Youth Fest & Water Fun, Brazil, France, Germany, Ukraine (around the world week). We had such a fantastic time, and even better weather! Thanks to everyone who came and had fun this summer.
Trips
This Playscheme, we went on 4 trips to local parks in the district: Newstead Abbey Park, Clumber Park, Mansfield Museum & Carr Bank Park and finally Rufford Abbey Park. We had lots of fun exploring these parks and having a picnic! We played lots of games throughout the day and even had ice cream :D
Forest School Sessions
We have enjoyed 4 wonderful forest school sessions this summer, we used our new forest school hub as well as taking trips out to the local woodland to forage and play games. This summer we made campfire donuts, jacket potatoes, paninis, bug hotels, went bug & leaf identifying, made leaf ID booklets, leaf butterflies, land art mandalas, cloud viewers, leaf suncatchers, a forest school handprint tree, natural eco friendly paints, and did some sit-spot mediation and lots & lots of games!
Special Visitors
Throughout Playscheme we've had some special visitors! Our first special guest was Jess Clarke ex-lioness, who came and ran some fitness drills & played football, as well as giving the children a powerpoint presentation on her story an journey as a footballer! We finished off with a Q&A and some pictures with Jess. What a truly inspirational woman!
We had some 4-legged friends visit us for Vet Day, including Raphael the Horsefield Tortoise, Sheila the Bearded Dragon, Little Prince the Leopard Gecko & Betsy the Frenchi-pei. All children who wanted to hold, feed or stroke any of the animals did so an thoroughly enjoyed themselves!
ImageSkool were our final visitors throughout Playscheme, who came to do our spray paint project to transform the front of our building into beautiful wildlife imagery. Lots of us took part in spray painting for the very first time, and created some amazing artwork!
Over 12's Youth Club
This summer at Over 12's Youth Club, we've enjoyed sessions in the sunshine and had some great session activities, such as: Protect the egg challenge, Q&A with staff, Tug of War, Rainworth Scavenger Hunt, Designing for the spray paint project & spray painting, BBQ and more! Throughout the sessions we have discussions with young people about: General advice & support, relationship & sexual advice (C-CARD), drug & alcohol use, environmental & social issues in the community, mental & physical health & well-being, bullying and staying safe.
Walk, Talk & Listen - Sherwood Voices Special
We had such a blast from the past listening to all of Rainworth's history and special stories! A local walk & talk group came to join us on this walk, and made the following post:
"Walking the route of "Jenny's Story," we listened to her account of the area through our headsets. Although we covered just over a couple of miles, it felt like we were transported back in time. Unlike our usual walks, we were encouraged not just to talk but to actively listen to Jenny's story, along with others like John Durkin. The history lesson was both fun and entertaining, helping me to put things in perspective. Even though I've ventured along these paths and tracks over the past seven years, I have learnt quite a lot.
If you hear about these "Walk, Talk & Listen" events, I highly recommend joining in—I'll definitely be there!
Thanks, everyone 𝓚𝓮𝓷"