everything curriculum | July 2020


Oak Forest School and Wilderness Skills CIC is celebrating a decade of working with children and young people in the outdoors. They work across Yorkshire with 20 schools and alternative provisions, providing curriculum linked activities which cross between forest school and bushcraft to over 10,000 children each year. Adults are also catered for with a unique Bushcraft Leader Training course accredited by the Institute of Outdoor Learning. For more information email contactus@oakforestschool.co.uk or message them via their website oakforestschool.co.uk


Friday Thursday


To a local high school to work with a group on alternate curriculum.


We’ve been building outdoor furniture using recycled materials for a chill out area. The group have designed and built benches/outdoor tables using pallets they sourced.


They use a variety of tools – saws, hammers, screwdrivers and portable power equipment.


It takes a number of weeks to get to this stage to ensure all safety aspects are covered.


Working with year 6, today’s topic is the Romans. Following joint planning with the school, we’re using our skills to make Roman spears, using knives and traditional tools e.g. draw knives.


The pupils remove all the bark from a 6’ stick, sand and use glue we have made from a cocktail of beeswax, pinesap, fire ash and rabbit droppings, to fix the spearheads which we made from recycled tin cans.


Saturday


Over to Wentworth Woodhouse Country Estate with our team of six staff delivering a family bushcraft day. We work with lots of families showing them how to make fires using bow drills and friction fire lighting.


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