Nature, Craft and Science

Dates: Monday 25h October - Thursday 28th October 2021

Availability: We have places available, but we recommend booking soon to avoid disappointment as we usually are fully booked.

Times: 10am-3pm

Location: Martin Primary School, Forest School area, N2

Price: £50 for one day, £90 for two days, £120 for three days, £160 for four days.

Age range: 4-9 year olds. (We welcome children outside this age range if they know us already and you have checked with Laura as we need to keep within legal ratios for younger children). We also ask that you get in touch prior to booking if your child as any additional needs and/or behaviour issues so we can make sure that this will be the right environment for you child.

Sibling discount: When booking a place for siblings, you will receive a discount if you book both at the same time.

What to expect:

During the week we will be focusing on preparing for the last of the year’s harvests - Samhain (pronounced Sow (as in cow)- in). Samhain calls us to honour our ancestors, so we will be asking children to bring with them a photocopy of a photo of relatives that have passed away - grandparents or great-grandparents. We will use the image to create an altar where we talk about family trees and remember those loved ones that we may have never met, but whom without them, we wouldn’t be here today. We welcome children to bring stories of their relatives that they would like to share - perhaps a great aunt that was an amazing painter or a great grandfather that was a scientist.

We will be decorating pumpkins ready for the celebration at the weekend - but with a focus on why we celebrate in terms of nature based spirituality rather than the modern day commercial aspect.

We will also be doing some face painting - so please tell us if you’re child is allergic and if you would rather they didn’t partake in this part.

We will be cooking a vegetarian meal around the camp fire on the Wednesday and making magical potions with hedgerow herbs and plants.

The group will have the opportunity to create autumnal wreaths to brighten our doors as the nights draw in and the days get shorter.

Every camp is designed with each individual child’s needs in mind, so we look forward to your booking so we can start prepping our activities based on your child’s interest and the season of Autumn!

Please don’t hesitate to email hello@meadow.education if you have any questions. If you are struggling financially, please get in touch and we can offer a discount in some situations.

Lots of love,

Laura, Marie and all the team!

PS All our staff our DBS checked, there is always a trained First Aider on site and we adhere to all of Ofsted’s guidelines. We operate in a Covid secure way and we must ask that if your child shows any symptoms that they do not attend and you will be given a full refund.