OPENING DAY

At Play In The Woods has been going since 2008 but it’s only since 2018 we have acquired a Woodland to call our own.

Starting off 2018 in our new setting at Brickyard Woods in Chelvey we ran a February half term play and stay and it was well received by everybody that came along.

We have reached 1000’s if not 10,000’s of children already and the only way is up.
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We have over 2k Likes and followers.

The Team

At Play is slowly growing. We offer high quality outdoor play. We’re a small but powerful team on a mission to improve the lives of children and their families. Are you ready to join us? If you care deeply about early childhood, getting kids outdoors, have a talent for both child and adult facilitating, you maybe who we are looking for!

Aims:

• To provide an opportunity for individuals to develop, to learn and to enjoy themselves.

• To provide a safe and non-threatening environment in which children can develop practical life skills, take risks, make choices and initiate their own learning.

• To help children understand, appreciate and care for the natural environment.

• To develop self-esteem, independence, confidence and a positive disposition to learning through the completion of small, achievable tasks.

• To develop social and team working skills.

• To enable children to be independent, self-motivated and considerate.

• To be true to the forest school ethos and approach.

• To develop a secure, happy and welcoming atmosphere.

• To provide stimulation and varied learning activities appropriate to the child’s needs and stages of development.

• To use the outdoor environment to provide activities for children, young people, adults with learning and mental health issues and their parents, carers and guardians including but not exclusively: ASD; Dementia, and special educational needs.

•To use the outdoor environment to improve the health and wellbeing of the community.

• Develop workplace skills through training in woodland crafts and manufacture of products made from woodland materials.

•Run sessions designed to deliver training to professionals related to working in an outdoor environment with children, adults and individuals with special needs.

At Play helps to develop

• Confidence and self-esteem;

• Communication and social skills;

• Physical skills;

• Greater understanding and awareness of the natural environment;

• Natural motivation and a positive attitude to learning;

• The ability to recognise and manage risk;

• Healthier lifestyles.