HOME ED CLUBS

Join our weekly HomeEd Club for children ages 5-10, where they’ll learn, play, and explore the outdoors with peers in a fun and engaging environment. Held on Tuesdays from 10:30-12:00 during term time, this session offers a variety of activities including Nerf battles, survival skills, forest crafts, archery, tree climbing, mountain biking, and team-building games. Children will develop new skills, work together on challenges, and have a blast in the great outdoors!

Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Nerf Battles: Children can bring their own guns if they wish.
• Survival scenarios where children make fires, build dens and forage food.
• Forest School Activities: Crafts using natural things we find in the woods; They might whittle a spoon, clay play, make a throwing stick or create your own paint.
• Archery: Children will become mini-Robin Hood’s and master shooting bows and arrows at targets.
• Tree Climbing and crate stack
• Mountain biking
• Team and Leadership Games: Children will learn to work in teams and complete leadership/pioneering challenges such as crossing the lava river, building a giant slingshot or playing games like man hunt and capture the flag.

Wanderers is open to Home Schooled children ages 8-15. We will be running the same activities as our Tuesday sessions. In our weekly HomeEd club we focus on Bushcraft, target sports, strategic team games and pushing children to get out of their comfort zones. Activities run on a rotation throughout the term where we encourage everyone to have a go at all our activities.

Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Nerf Battles: Children can bring their own guns if they wish.
• Survival scenarios and bushcraft
• Forest School Activities: Crafts using natural things we find in the woods; They might whittle a spoon/knife/spear, create dream catchers, make a throwing stick, clay play etc
• Archery: Coached to GB Archery Syllabus
• Air Rifle Shooting: Coached by GB Shooting instructors.
• Tree Climbing and crate stack
• Axe Throwing: Viking training!
• Team and Leadership Games: Children will learn to work in teams and complete leadership/pioneering challenges such as crate stacking, crossing the lava river, building a giant slingshot or playing games like man hunt and capture the flag.
• Mountain biking: Children will be coached on riding positions, pre-ride checks, how to roll and jump over berms and jumps.

Our Adventurers HomeEd Club, for ages 11-15, takes things up a notch by focusing on target sports, strategic team games, and pushing kids to step outside their comfort zones. Held on Tuesdays from 13:00-14:30, this weekly session offers a rotating mix of activities such as Nerf battles, survival and bushcraft skills, archery (coached to GB Archery standards), air rifle shooting, axe throwing, tree climbing, crate stacking, mountain biking, and team-building challenges. Kids will develop new skills, work on leadership, and have a blast in the great outdoors!

‘Wildlings’ will move up to Adventurers when children, adults and instructors feel they are ready. ‘Adventurers’ is our weekly HomeEd club which focuses on coaching target sports, more strategic team games and pushing children to get out of their comfort zones. As with ‘Wildlings’, activities run on a rotation throughout the term.

Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Nerf Battles: Children can bring their own guns if they wish.
• Survival scenarios and bushcraft
• Forest School Activities: Crafts using natural things we find in the woods; They might whittle a spoon/knife/spear, create dream catchers, make a throwing stick, clay play etc
• Archery: Coached to GB Archery Syllabus
• Air Rifle Shooting: Coached by GB Shooting instructors.
• Tree Climbing and crate stack
• Axe Throwing: Viking training!
• Team and Leadership Games: Children will learn to work in teams and complete leadership/pioneering challenges such as crate stacking, crossing the lava river, building a giant slingshot or playing games like man hunt and capture the flag.
• Mountain biking: Children will be coached on riding positions, pre-ride checks, how to roll and jump over berms and jumps.

Pioneers’ is our teen group, with the main focus being on gaining real life skills and qualifications that participants will be able to add to their Curriculum Vitae,(CV), one of which being the optional Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. We will also focus on skills and attributes to help young people into employment or further education. Whether or not young people sign up to a DofE award, all participants will be able to do some volunteering and work experience in this group, as well as building on skills and physical activities that they may have learnt in our Wanderer’s or Adventurer’s groups.

There will also be the opportunity to complete a couple of expeditions which will include some hiking and overnight camping and various times during the year.

Activities include, but are not limited to:

• Optional sign up to Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.
• Navigation skills which will include map and compass work, bearings and navigation using nature
• Volunteering: This may be in the form of creating new spaces/resources for younger groups or building areas for nature to thrive
• Learning to Coach activities at NGB standards
  Plan and deliver sessions to peers or younger groups.
• Campcraft: Set up camps, plan and cook a meal on a travel stove or fire, learn about different types of outdoor equipment and their uses
• Overnight camps
• Team and Leadership Games: Participants will learn to work in teams and complete leadership/pioneering challenges such as crate stacking, crossing the lava river, building a giant slingshot or playing games like man hunt and capture the flag. They will also have the opportunity to lead these activities

Pioneers is aimed at ages 13+ (school year 9 and above)