Our forest school programme embraces the simple curiosities of childhood, we dig, we explore, we imagine, we laugh, we grow.
Grow Wild is a child led forest school session located at Birmingham Settlement's Red Shed site; a beautiful, green space tucked away in the heart of Brum. Our open ended sessions are a holistic blend of exploratory play and growing and gardening projects aimed at children aged 2 to 5 years and their grown ups. Our Forest School site benefits from a small woodland space to jump and climb in, next to a wonderfully maintained veggie patch and polytunnel and we welcome you to play and grow with us. Let's get little fingers in the dirt and seeds in the ground.
We'll make paint from blackberries, fly on sticks, mix up marvellously muddy creations in the mud kitchen and we'll learn to nurture and grow new things from sunflowers to tomato plants. You'll be able to return each week to see how tall they've grown!
Come and join us on Mondays from 1:00pm-2:30pm for play, craft and the freedom to roam and explore with a campfire to finish.
When you arrive at the Red Shed please make your way across the field and our Forest School site is located in the far right corner. Some of you may already know it from our Roots sessions with Birmingham Settlement, your sessions will be run by Rachel who also runs Roots. It is possible to push buggies across the field to the forest school corner.
Please dress for the weather! As long as little ones are wrapped up they will enjoy playing outside in all weathers. We recommend lots of thin layers, so thermals or long sleeve tees, leggings and tracksuit bottoms, a fleece or thick jumper and waterproof outerwear. If you can, snow boots are best for keeping little feet warm when they have a fleecey inside, better than wellies, and snoods, hats and waterproof gloves are a must through these colder months. If you want to have a chat about clothing please just grab me during the session.
We enjoy free play for the first hour, the session always follows a theme for that day and we enjoy a craft or some kind of activity connected to that. We will then make a fire and cook something to share together and share what we have enjoyed from our day.
We operate in all weathers, but high winds or heavy rains may force us to cancel the session or move it to a more protected part of the site.
There are toilets on site at the Nature & Wellbeing Centre, but not in the forest school corner, so we encourage you to go before you join the session.
There is a cafe in the Red Shed and picnic tables and a small play area, so please feel free to stay and enjoy the Nature & Wellbeing site for longer once the session ends or bring scooters and bikes and enjoy a walk around the reservoir which is located next door.
Please do make us aware of any allergies or additional needs when booking so we can best accommodate these during the session.
Look forward to seeing you there!
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Child Forest School ticket
This ticket is for 1 child and their parent/carer or non walking sibling to attend the forest school session
Bilet kursowy - na wszystkie 5 daty
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£60.00 | |
Sibling Forest School ticket
This ticket is for each sibling after the first full paying child ticket. Please purchase this ticket for the additional child you are bringing to the forest school session. Adults and non walkers do not need an additional ticket.
Bilet kursowy - na wszystkie 5 daty
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£40.00 |
Birmingham Settlement Nature & Wellbeing Centre - Ladywood
Edgbaston Reservoir 79 Selwyn Road
Birmingham
B16 0SL
On arrival, walk past the Red Shed and walk to the opposite end of the field, you will find us in the far right corner.
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