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    The document discusses several projects focused on getting children and families engaged with outdoor learning and gardening. The Springfield Project in Birmingham runs family gardening sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to encourage children's development through experiencing community food growing. The project uses Forest School values to provide choices and feedback to facilitate faster learning. They have built facilities like raised beds and a "Baby Shack" to introduce natural play to young children. The project aims to get more families gardening at home.

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    The document discusses several projects focused on getting children and families engaged with outdoor learning and gardening. The Springfield Project in Birmingham runs family gardening sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to encourage children's development through experiencing community food growing. The project uses Forest School values to provide choices and feedback to facilitate faster learning. They have built facilities like raised beds and a "Baby Shack" to introduce natural play to young children. The project aims to get more families gardening at home.

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    The document discusses several projects focused on getting children and families engaged with outdoor learning and gardening. The Springfield Project in Birmingham runs family gardening sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays to encourage children's development through experiencing community food growing. The project uses Forest School values to provide choices and feedback to facilitate faster learning. They have built facilities like raised beds and a "Baby Shack" to introduce natural play to young children. The project aims to get more families gardening at home.

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    Welcome!
    What are the aims of
    the BFOaks?
    Summer 2014
    Resources for Autism are looking for volunteers to work with
    young people there is training and a great team to work with.
    Contact: Helen Thompson, Volunteer Coordinator
    [email protected]

    Encouraging children to learn about the natural world is vital to
    their development. The Springfield Project in Sparkhill
    Birmingham understands this and runs family focused gardening
    sessions on a Tuesday and a Wednesday to get children out and
    experiencing community food growing. Its amazing how Forest
    School training can influence all types of projects and I use the
    values of choice making and review in the sessions to enable a
    faster learning experience for the children and parents who
    attend. We have raised beds for toddlers to dig and grow food in
    and for the high numbers of young babies we have built a Baby
    Shack which is filled with natural sensory play and soft cushions
    so exploring the natural world can start early! My personal aim is
    to get families growing in their backyards and Im pleased to
    see a number of concrete slabs being torn up to be replaced with
    veg patches. For more information about Forest School influence
    gardening practice contact Clare Chapman at The Springfield
    Project on 0121 777 2722 or email on
    [email protected]

    Spotlight on The Springfield allotment project
    To the quarterly
    newsletter from the
    new BFOaks Cluster
    Group.
    Provide safe
    opportunities to learn
    and play in a stimulating
    natural environment
    Develop understanding
    of and care for the
    environment
    Provide training, skill
    sharing and the
    promotion of outdoor
    learning to facilitate this
    Members support these
    aims by volunteering
    time, space and
    resources

    Forest school Food
    Skill Share & AMG!

    Next skill share will be all about
    cooking so bring your culinary
    ideas to share.
    Meet Lizzy Bean creator of the
    Earth oven that is on site. Learn
    more about how the earth oven
    was made and how to cook with it.




    .


    http://www.brumforestschools.org.u
    Forest school Food Skill Share,
    Sunday 4th October.
    10am 2pm
    Martineau Gardens
    27 Priory Rd, Birmingham
    B5 7UG
    Booking Fee 10
    To book Contact Sharon Eeles,
    Group Secretary
    e mail: [email protected] or
    call Tel: 0121 323 5388

    BFOaks - Outdoor Activities and Knowledge Sharing

    Birmingham Forest OAKS - Outdoor Activities and Knowledge Sharing




    Help us spread the word. Forward this newsletter to anyone
    who has an interest in Outdoor Education.
    Birmingham Forest OAKS - Outdoor Activities and Knowledge Sharing


    Hello. We are explorer puppets, you can find us at
    www.artgames.co.uk - resources.
    We are a range of tried and tested, simple but effective
    puppet designs.
    We love helping youngsters to share their thoughts,
    feelings - and fantasy stories -
    about the great outdoors. We are a motley crew:
    some of us are butterflies made from bamboo blinds;
    others of us are talkative birds made from paper plates;
    some are beautiful fish made from paper bags.
    We can all be made outdoors.
    Were all made using recycled, recyclable or readily
    available materials.
    We believe that having a puppet explorer - that they have
    made themselves - as a companion
    enables any youngster to gain even more from their
    experience of the natural environment.
    Find us at www.artgames.co.uk - resources
    and on Flickr: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjykdtEx

    If you prefer to communicate with a human being,
    then please e-mail our friend, Jim Morris:
    [email protected]
    Thanks Jim for donating your time and
    skills to make our lovely new logo.


    Access for all
    Forming in 2004 its hard to believe the group has been going for nearly a decade! With our aim
    to get more people Forest school trained in Birmingham and all children accessing this
    experience we have made some positive inroads but as usual there is always more to do. The
    future of environmental education in Birmingham conference we held in 2011, opened our remit
    to support all outdoor work with children/young people. Recognising that getting children
    outside and interacting with their environment is the key message we want to promote. We
    have a strong membership and we are attracting people with diverse backgrounds who share
    the same aims. Skill shares led and delivered by the group are popular and helpful in
    supporting practitioners. In our latest skill share we explored the topic of how we can help SEN
    and disabled children access outdoor learning. With potentially more challenges to overcome
    to getting these children out, it makes sense to work together on this. Networking was really
    informative and uplifting. We covered the changing provisions coming in for children currently
    with statements, good practice in Forest school with SEN was modelled by Baskerville school
    and we had a special guest from the Resources for Autism team. Exploring some of the issues of
    facilitating children with different needs, we looked at practical things that could be done,
    training on offer and specialist support organisations like the Sensory trust. With practitioners
    from early years, secondary and post 16 at the meeting we could see how consistent quality
    outdoor experiences need to have continuity if we really are going to make a lifelong
    difference.
    J an Tomlinson, Birmingham FEI Chair and BCC Park Ranger


    Skill shares are a direct response to
    the requests and offers of help from
    the group.



    11
    th
    and 12
    th
    July BioBlitz
    Become a Citizen Scientist and help your
    National Nature Reserve. Our BioBlitz will
    be a 30hr event to record in detail, the
    animals and plants of Sutton Park. A
    variety of experts, specialists and
    generalists will be on site to guide you
    through a range of activities designed to
    record the wildlife within Sutton Park.For
    further details go to
    www.facebook.com/SPBB13.
    Meet at the Visitor Centre, Park Road,
    Sutton Coldfield, B74 2YT.

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