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!
