BEING Outdoors CIC – experience – connect – grow

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 4-11. 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. We aim … Read more BEING EXPLORERS

BEING CURIOUS

Forest School supports learners’ personal development – connecting learners of all ages and abilities with each other and nature to support emotional, social and physical wellbeing. As facilitators we strive to provide a calm, positive and community centred environment for learning and creativity – supporting each individual to explore their own interests and talents, make, … Read more BEING CURIOUS

BEING ADVENTUROUS

Our BEING ADVENTUROUS 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 name … Read more BEING ADVENTUROUS

OUR COLLABORATIVE TEAM

Rach – Forest School Practitioner, Teacher & Director of BEING Outdoors CIC Rach set up BEING Outdoors as a Freelancer at the beginning of 2019 to provide Forest school, curriculum enrichment and WELLBEING Outdoors programmes for schools, families and the local community and is very proud to be working alongside our fabulous team of Forest … Read more OUR COLLABORATIVE TEAM

BEING EXPLORERS

BEING EXPLORERS runs at Shield Tree Wood in Derbyshire term time for children aged 4-11. 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. We aim … Read more BEING EXPLORERS

WHY BEING OUTDOORS CIC?

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 CIC?

OUR SERVICES

Our programme of services is designed to support schools, families and community groups & organisations within the HIGH PEAK and beyond.

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 good character 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 within the community.

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.

With our own private woodland site – SHIELD TREE WOOD – we are also now able to offer outdoor educational visits to suppport the personal development of all children.

BEING ME

BEING Outdoors CIC @ COMMUNITY

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BEING ADVENTUROUS

JUST BEING

BEING FREE

BEING AWESOME

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