Pizza for trolls and elephants in the trees
From young children to adventures everywhere:
training courses with Wildwise
Devon, 17th and 18th July 2019
small things hold big stories
Workshops like this are aimed at teachers, outdoor ed
practitioners, forest school leaders, playworkers…anyone really who is interested
in adding some (hopefully) new activities to their toolkit. I run training
courses thata re cheerful, relaxed and full of variety, exploring dieas, playing
with a ctivities, offering people ready-made activities to take away while
offering time for people to then stop and think, turn thigns inside out, add
their own ideas and experiences and come up with ideas that suit themselves
Wildwise are based at Dartington in Totnes so we work in the
lovely woods of the Dartington Estate. Booking notes with each course description and at the end of the page - contact me (creepingtoad@btinternet.com) about content but talk to Wildwise about bookings!
Wednesday July 17th
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| house, trap, adventure point? |
Stories
everywhere: a day about finding stories in the world around us, improvising
adventures and creating instant poems
The activities used here have been tried and tested with family groups, on adult events and with school children - often in situations where Literacy is an issue and activities are needed that remove worry and fear and encourage simple enjoyment of words
Programme will include:
- first words: setting out on an adventure
- adventures everywhere: short activities with minimal equipment for use outside
- holding onto adventures: ways of recording our words
- bigger stories: working in groups to make quick, longer pieces
- developing story characters
- deriving adventures from found objects or artefacts
- the value of treasure
- story bundles and adventure boxes
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| strong characters make all the difference |
Thursday July 18th
Adventures with Early Years: a day of activities to use with
younger groups arounds tory making and wider literacy and turning words into
play
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| who knows who waits in the woods? |
Build your own toolkit of activities and
themes to use with younger children. Looking at a world full of stories, we can
use immediate environment to inspire language, encourage communication and
foster a deep sense of excitement in and connection with that world. We might shape a story on the walk to school, design a pizza for a
troll, discover who hides on the other side of
the tree and how to call a dragon from a flowerbed. Using readily transferable
techniques and easily sourced materials, this workshop will encourage us to
value and cherish the creativity of younger children
Who is the course for
Early Years teachers, Forest School
practitioners, family centre and playgroup leaders, environmental education and
countryside staff
What will you take away
- ways of building storylines with young children that help us shape their experience and learning
- activities that combine visual art, stories and the environment
- activities to encourage creative exploration
- event ideas for family groups
- direct experience of a range of activity ideas from outside storybuilding to rainy day alternatives, mixing discovery with story, drama, art and craft ideas
- the value of tiny things and the power of giants
Booking for this course: £80 (individual adult), £95 (community/not-for-profit),
£120 (sponsored adult/business adult). if booked through eventbrite
their fees apply. For more information contact Wildwise
1. Email Wildwise here: please provide your contact details and how you would like to pay i.e. BACS or card
2. By phone: call 01803 868269 (message service when office unattended)
3. Online booking via Eventbrite: instant booking with immediate confirmation (recommended for late bookings). Eventbrite booking fees apply.
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| tell a tale along a twisting branch |
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