🌳💚🌳AN idea to get out and connect with Nature – to see WHAT we can see from our gardens, from our bedroom windows from accessing our local areas. Looking out for Nature we will be focusing on birds over the next couple of weeks leading up to the RSPB big bird watch and count💚🌳💚

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/

💚LET’S make some binoculars.💚

🌳YOU will need 2 toilet roll tubes or a kitchen roll cut in half. Using any kind of tape to attach them and then using string or wool to tape to the sides so that the binoculars can safely go over your head, not too tight but will easily break free should it become attached 🐦🌳

💚OUR long standing favourite Peely Wally would be a good read … I shall look into recording some camp fire stories once I can work out if I have permission to do so here … 💚

💚WELL what a start to 2021. WE have had a week of finding out where we’re AT, getting into NEW routines and letting GO of where we thought we would be💚

💚IT would seem it might be a BIT longer before any groups can run but I shall post on here the outdoor learning ideas I will be leading at school for children around Reception age which please feel free to share and also I will post about any books or other activities which I think might be of interest💚

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❤️Take CARE & be KIND to yourself❤️

🍁🍁DRYING out leaves for school … perfect for leaving a secret symbol or message on 💚. Looking forward to introducing a character from Greg Bottrill (Can I Go and Play Now?) the Bombadils and seeing what they think 💭. Keeping the joy and fun in learning.

joy in learning#early years#can I go and play now?#co playing & learning#forest school ethos in mainstream school💚🍁💚

💚 🌲 A beautiful shot of the Outdoor Classroom this morning and then a bit later I had the chance to start moving the bark chippings around to make more of an entrance. SUCH a lot of interest from passers by and visitors keen to get involved in the future creating fairy houses and dragon kingdoms 🐉. REALLY UPLIFTING to see/ hear/ feel. ❤️🙏 🍁

💚🍁🌲WE can’t have a volunteer day at the moment BUT feel free to add any magical artwork/ fairy doors to the FELLED trunks only (keeping COVID safe) IF you are passing and it is SAFE to do so being MINDFUL of other visitors to the site. THIS is our Community Outdoor Classroom and never has there been EVEN more of a need to get outside. 🍁🌲💚

🌲🍁IF you would like more information then please email me 🌲🍁

💚🌿🌲Hello all, I hope that everyone is keeping healthy and safe 💚. A Noodles update: the landowners have been in touch and there is to be quite a lot of tree and boundary maintenance at the site over the next couple of months which is badly needed. With the way that things are at the moment I am conscious of already being in a big enough bubble at school that sadly I think it’s wise to say we are looking at 2021 before I can run any sessions …. however, once the work is done if there are any freelance practitioners out there looking for a site then please message me and I can sign post you to Sustrans. Keep safe and hope to see you soon 💚🌿💚

💚🌿💚THANK you for all the session enquires. At THE moment I am not running any term time sessions BUT there will be ad hoc sessions during October half term and family Wild Saturday session dates coming up. 💚🌿💚

🌿💚🌿IF you have any queries OR you are a Practitioner interested in running some sessions term time (freelance/ self employed) please email me at noodleheads@hotmail.co.uk). 🌿💚🌿

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💚ENJOYING the sky this morning on our walk … the clouds look like a duvet ☁️ ☁️💚🌿

🌿💚IT was too WINDY in the willows for the last of the Summer Sessions last Friday but the last weekend at Kelmarsh was good to go with natural craft n making – lots of beautiful fairy fantastic houses and furniture- and some fire lighting (dragon sneeze!) and cooking💚🌿

🌿💚THIS week I have been taking a break before School starts back up again next week. WE checked the site today for the wind damage … lots of loose branches and the top of one Willow has sadly been broken by the wind 💨 💚🌿

🌿💚Wishing you all a positive return to whatever your ‘normal’ may look like and look forward to seeing you all again soon 💚🌿

🌿💚LOOKING to make some Elder syrup over the next couple of weeks as the berries ripen; I was looking up the folklore of the Elder … some of these I knew, some I didn’t …

– the tree is inhabited by a spirit called The Elder Mother
– if you cut the tree without asking permission, she’ll get cross
– if you have an Elder growing outside your door, you’ll be protected from witches and other assorted evil spirits, entities, monsters, dragons etc
– stand under the Elder tree at Midsummer and you’ll see fairies
– fall asleep under the tree and the fairies will take you away

Who knew? 😊😊💚🌿

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