Buckingham Primary School
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Holiday Clubs at Buckingham Primary School
We promise the best day ever to every child, every day and we never fail to deliver!
Join our exciting Forest School Holiday club. Places are open to all children aged between 4-13. Your child does not have to attend the school. Our activities regularly include:
- Shelter building
- Mini-beast hunting, bird spotting and nature trails
- Nature based crafts like whittling and weaving
- Campfire building, lighting and cooking
- High ropes, swings and hammocks in the trees
- The use of tools from hammers to knives and axes
- Mud kitchen cheffing
- And so much more
If it’s fun and it’s outdoors it’s on our timetable!
We have two available session times at this club, 08:00-16:00 and 09:00-15:00.
08:00-16:00 extended hours ‘Campfire Club’ session includes a campfire breakfast of toast or crumpets and hot chocolate with marshmallows. (GF and plant based available.)
Please pack plenty of snacks as we are outdoors playing and burning energy all day. We are a nut free setting.
For your child’s comfort and safety, we kindly request that arms and legs are covered at all times and footwear must be fully closed.
Please send clean indoor shoes which can be changed into if necessary. Please also send extra clothes which can be used to layer up or to replace wet clothes, including spare socks and shoes, even in warm weather.
See you soon, stay muddy!
HAF Programme at Buckingham Primary School
The HAF Programme runs from 9:00am – 3:00pm and includes all the fun and engaging outdoor activities of our Forest School Holiday Club!
Buckingham Primary School
Frequenty asked questions
What is Forest School?
What goes on at Green Planet Forest School Sessions?
Our emphasis at our sessions, whether they are during school time, at an afterschool club or during full days at holiday camps is always on children leading the way. This empowers them to direct their own learning in fun ways which enable them to discover what excites them, explore their interests and play in a way that suits them rather than being prescribed what they should do and how they should do it. We believe this supports their independence as well as enabling them to quickly gain or hone skills such as confidence, resilience, perseverance and communication. Read more about the value of free play and how it benefits child development here.
The Green Planet team prepares for sessions by setting up stations or situations such as for whittling, fire lighting, campfire cooking, shelter building, crafting, tree climbing, construction using tools, and supports children on whichever activity they choose to explore. In order to fully appreciate the range of fun activities on offer, a very detailed list of those activities and their benefit to child development can be found here. Of course all of this goes on in a woodland area giving access to nature which itself is both a great educator and an amazing place to play.
Can children with additional needs attend?
Will my child be safe?
A great deal of effort goes in to making sure your children are safe both physically and emotionally at our Forest School sessions. There is a great deal of development potential in children taking risks, physical risks like learning to stand up and walk or emotional risks like learning to meet new people and experience new things for example, our highly trained, qualified and experienced team ensure that any risks are minimal and rewards are maximum. Our risk assessment policy document is available on request, just contact us and we’ll be happy to share it or discuss it further.
All sessions are led by a qualified Forest School Leader and the team are all safeguarding and paediatric first aid trained. Executive Director Alex (Mr Mud) is also a children’s mental health ambassador and teaches children practices such as mindfulness and grounding to support their mental wellbeing and help them deal with challenges they may face.
What clothing and footwear do you recommend?
At all times of the year closed shoes, long trousers and long sleeves are the minimum. This reduces the chances of injury from brambles, nettles and insect bites.
During the colder Autumn and Winter months sessions do still go ahead in almost all weather conditions [more here] and so to keep everyone warm and toastie we have some specific recommendations for clothing and footwear which is covered in this post.
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