G1848 Activities for School Groups Foundation

Structure of the Day
A day visit consists of 3 - 4 activities, with a break for lunch.
A pre-visit is recommended to discuss objectives and plan your visit.
Booking Details
✱The centre caters for groups of up to 35 children
(30 for Teddy Bear’s Picnic)
✱Larger groups can be split over 2-3 days
✱The centre requires adult to child ratios of 1:5 for FS
and KS1 and 1:7 for KS2 and KS3
Prices
✱The cost of all programmes is £5 per child
✱There is no charge for adults
For enquires or to book a visit please contact:
Becki Pulford
Schools Centre Teacher
The Countryside Education Centre
Tel: (01604) 771279
For Further Details
To find out more about the centre please visit our website:
www.moulton.ac.uk/holdenby_country side_education_centre
Moulton College,
West Street,
Moulton,
Northants,
NN3 7RR
Telephone: (01604) 491131
Fax: (01604) 491127
FOUNDATION STAGE
Activities for School
Groups
Knowledge and Understanding of the World (continued)
Activities
Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Join us for our most popular day programme for younger
children. Bring your teddies for a wonderful woodland
adventure, that includes sensory exploration,
a lost teddy hunt, teddy bear dens
and of course a picnic!
Duration: 1 day
Available: All year
• Look closely at similarities, differences, patterns and
change
Woodland Mural, Leaf
Collages
• Build and construct with a wide range of objects,
selecting appropriate resources and adapting their
work where necessary
Teddy Bears’ Picnic,
Suzy Spider, Home for
an Animal, Woodland
Magic, Boglin Homes,
Natural Mobiles
• Select the tools and techniques they need to shape,
assemble and join materials they are using
Teddy Bears’ Picnic,
Home for an Animal,
Woodland Magic, Boglin
Homes, Natural Mobiles
• Find out about the environment, and talk about those
features they like and dislike
ALL
Physical Development
Earthwalks
A variety of sensory activities appropriate
to the season, which help younger
children to explore the natural world.
Duration: 40 minutes
Available: All year
Suzy Spider
Follow Suzy Spider’s story trail around the woodland collecting
natural objects along the way. Children use the collected items
to create their own woven spider’s web.
Duration: 1 hour
Available: All year
• Move with control and coordination
ALL
• Recognise that changes happen to their bodies when
they are active
ALL
Creative Development
• Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and
feelings by using a widening range of materials,
suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement,
designing and making
Teddy Bears’ Picnic,
Woodland Mural, Leaf
Collages, Home for
an Animal, Woodland
Magic, The Trees are
Alive!, Boglins, Boglin
Homes, Natural Mobiles
• Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two
or three dimensions
Teddy Bears’ Picnic,
Earthwalks, Woodland
Mural, Leaf Collages
• Use their imagination in art and design, imaginative
and role-play
Teddy Bears’ Picnic,
Suzy Spider, Boglins,
Boglin Homes,
Woodland Magic, The
Trees are Alive!
EYFS Curriculum Links
Marvellous Minibeasts
Early Learning Goals
Activities
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
• Continue to be interested, excited and motivated to
learn
ALL
• Be confident to try new activities, initiate ideas and
speak in a familiar group
ALL
• Work as part of a group or class, taking turns and
sharing fairly, understanding that there needs to be
agreed values and codes of behaviour for groups of
people, including adults and children
ALL
Scour the woodland to find a variety of minibeasts that live in
our woodland (some of them not so mini!). Use magnifiers and
bug pots to have a closer look and
simple keys to find out their
names.
Duration: 45 minutes -1 hour
Available: All year
Woodland Mural
Communication, Language and Literacy
• Extend their vocabulary, exploring meanings and
sounds of new words
As a whole class create a 30ft mural of the
woodland using leaves to print trees.
Children mix their own shade of green to
give wonderful variety to the painting.
ALL
• Interact with others, negotiating plans and activities
and taking turns in conversation
Teddy Bears’ Picnic,
Home for an Animal
• Speak clearly and audibly with confidence and control
and show awareness of the listener
Woodland Magic,
Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: Summer
Problem Solving, Reasoning and Numeracy
• Use everyday words to describe position
• Use language such as ‘circle’ or ‘bigger’ to describe
shape and size of shapes
Teddy Bears’ Picnic
Leaf Collages, Woodland
Mural
Knowledge and Understanding of the World
• Investigate objects and materials by using all of their
senses
• Find out about, and identify, some features of living
things, objects and events they observe
ALL
Earthwalks, Woodland
Mural, Leaf Collages,
Marvellous Minibeasts
Leaf Collages
Children collect leaves, and other natural
objects, to create a collage to take home
with them.
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: All year
Boglins
Woodland Magic
Some strange creatures live in our
woods, including the magical boglins.
Using clay and natural materials,
children make their very own
woodland boglin that they can take
home at the end of the day.
Children use natural and craft materials to create crowns and
wands fit for the finest witches and wizards. The activity finishes
with a parade and casting of spells.
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: All year
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: All year
Home for an Animal
Boglin Homes
Working in groups children build a home for a toy woodland
animal, helping them to understand the needs of living
things. The activity finishes with a tour of the animal homes
(and photos of course!).
Following on from the ‘Boglins’ activity, children can
create woodland homes for their newly made creatures.
Duration: 1 hour
Available: All year
Duration: 30 minutes
Available: All year
Natural Mobiles
Children use gathered materials to create a natural
mobile to decorate a classroom or bedroom.
The Trees are Alive!
We all know that trees are living, but
did you know that they have faces?
Look close enough and you’ll see…
During this activity children explore
the woodland to find the hidden
tree faces and use clay to have a
go at making their own.
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: All year
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: All year
Falconry Visit
Just next door to the Education Centre is
Holdenby’s Falconry. You can book a tour
of the Falconry, which includes a flying
display, as part of your visit. There is an
additional group charge for this activity.
Duration: 1 hour
Available: March-Sept only