SEAL BROOK WOODLAND SCHOOL

If your child loved Forest School when they were in pre-school or KS1 then they will love our woodland bushcraft birthday parties. Our sessions have been designed to provide a completely unique experience for children that have progressed beyond Forest School and combines having loads of fun in the natural environment of the woods whilst learning some of the bushcraft and wilderness living skills that our ancestors would have used to survive.

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Birthday parties can be adapted and delivered to children of all ages and are not only limited to young people, adult groups are very welcome to join in on the fun!

 

Bushcraft encompasses a whole range of skills so there are a number of activities that you can choose from, they include:

 

• Fire lighting techniques from across the ages using natural and human-made tinders and ignition techniques.

• Natural Shelter/ Den Building - a brilliant team working activity

• Bread making - Making your own dough and cooking it on the fire

• Natural Navigation and map reading - find North and South and use this information to complete an orienteering course

• Water purification challenge - compete against others to make the cleanest water from the wild

• Natural cordage - use plant fibres to make a usable product

• Game preparation - learn to check, fillet and cook whole fresh fish (older groups only and subject to additional cost for fish)

• Knife and saw safety and greenwood working (for older groups) - learn how to safely use these tools to make a woodland tool of your choice.

• Archery on our woodland range

• Axe throwing on our woodland range

• Animal Acquisition - use knife and saw skills to make improvised traps or traditional hunting tools such as an Atlatl or Swiss arrow.

 

Our parties last 3.5 hours and consist of a combination of the above activities. This is followed by time to sit around the fire, have a drink of squash, toast marshmallows and cook and eat some food if requested. The party will conclude with a group photo. If you have any of your own ideas or requests, we are always happy to accommodate you as best as we can.

 

We can run woodland parties any day of the week and they generally start at either 9.00am or 1:30pm, we can also offer after school parties as dictated by daylight hours.

 

Price £17 per head.

 

Minimum cost of £170 (equivalent to a group of 10).

 

 What’s included:

 

• All equipment for the activities

• Tea, Coffee and Squash – The kettle will always be boiling for the adults and refreshments available anytime.

• Fresh drinking water

• Group photo

• All cooking equipment if you would like to bring food to be cooked.

• Marshmallows for pudding

• Toilets and hand washing facilities

• Covered teaching and cooking areas allowing us to carry on regardless of the weather.

 

What’s not included:

 

• Food – food can be provided at an additional cost of £2 per person, consisting of a sausage/burger in a bun with sauce and salad. Alternatively you can bring your own food to cook on the fire.

• Cake

• Any other food, sweets or prizes you would like to bring

 

Call us on 07884216397 or email matt@sealbrookwoodlandschool.co.uk and leave the rest to us.