BEING Outdoors CIC – experience – connect – grow

BEING ADVENTUROUS

Our BEING ADVENTUROUS paid holiday club at Shield Tree Wood runs throughout the year. Our clubs are planned to develop skills over the sessions such as knife whittling, woodland crafts using a range of tools (e.g. mallet making, wand whittling), campfire lighting and maintenance, campfire cooking and shelter building using tarps and ropes to … Read more BEING ADVENTUROUS

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BEING DISCOVERERS

With our spacious, calm, private woodland basecamp in the heart of the High Peak we are excited to support your learners on their personal development journeys. At our basecamp in Shield Tree Wood, we will work with you to deliver a full day programme to enrich your class topic or support and extend a particular … Read more BEING DISCOVERERS

BEING CREATORS

BEING CREATORS is our After School Forest School provision. We can come to your own setting and run termly sessions using the Ethos of Forest School to facilitate our sessions with seasonal skills threaded through. Each half term we will offer a different outdoor woodland skill that the children can learn and develop at their … Read more BEING CREATORS

BEING EXPLORERS

BEING EXPLORERS runs at Shield Tree Wood in Derbyshire term time for children aged 4-14. The programme adopts the principles of Forest School with child-led learning and play at its heart. BEING EXPLORERS is for designed for young people who are in school but would benefit from wellbeing support, flexi-schooled or home educated. With our … Read more BEING EXPLORERS

MEET US

Rach – Director Marcella – Director Graham – Director Ange – Outdoor Learning Assistatnt Patsy – Forest School Leader Therese – Forest School Leader Helen – Forest School Leader Christine – Forest School Leader

WHAT IS FOREST SCHOOL?

At BEING Outdoors, we are proud to use the Principles of Forest School to ensure that our children and young people are offered a broad and balanced experience that is learner-led and learner-centred. Learners develop through play, exploration and making their own choices of learning experiences—as we believe this is best for empowering the learner, … Read more WHAT IS FOREST SCHOOL?

WHY BEING OUTDOORS?

BEING Outdoors CIC is a Forest School, outdoor learning, curriculum enrichment and WELLBEING Outdoors service provider with its own woodland base-camp at Shield Tree Wood, Thornsett, near New Mills, HIGH PEAK. We strive to connect children, young people and families with nature and each other to build social, emotional and physical wellbeing. We thread a … Read more WHY BEING OUTDOORS?

OUR SERVICES

OUR BEING OUTDOORS MISSION

BUILD INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES THAT SUPPORT PERSONAL GROWTH,
DEVELOPING A CONNECTION IN NATURE AND
OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES

As a Community Interest Company our aims always have our local community at the heart of what we do:

use the outdoors and nature to provide experiences to engage and benefit local nurseries, primary and secondary schools, adult and child support groups, eg SEND, through its delivery of Forest School, Outdoor Learning and Curriculum Enrichment programmes.
use the combination of learning in nature and being in nature to engage children, young people and adults and develop participant’s self-esteem, nurture social and emotional health and intrinsic motivation for community cohesiveness.
use the outdoors and nature to improve the health and wellbeing of the community
run sessions to connect children, young people and adults with their local outdoors spaces to improve accessibility of Therapeutic Forest School in green spaces within the community.

OUR TEAM

We are really proud of our skilled and compassionate team of Forest School leaders, Teachers, Therapeutic Outdoor Leaders, Outdoor Learning Assistants and Learning Mentors. We use our breadth of experience and understanding of children’s wellbeing to deliver programmes which holistically support each child where they are at for positive personal development. This is at the heart of what we do.

OUR PROGRAMMES

BEING Outdoors CIC @ SCHOOLS
BEING Outdoors CIC specialises in providing schools Forest Schools programmes to support the wellbeing, personal development and outdoor learning for children and young people in our community.

BEING Outdoors CIC @ COMMUNITY

We can provide our services –

at our base-camp in Shield Tree Wood or;
we can deliver our programme in your own outdoor learning space