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Earlyarts Professional Development Day

for the Cheshire Hub area

run by Cheshire West and Chester Council

Tuesday 28 September 2010

Barnton County Primary School, Townfield Lane, Barnton, Northwich,

Cheshire West and Chester, CW8 4JP (directions here)

9.30 am – 3.30 pm (Coffee available from 9.00am, please bring your own lunch)

Theme: Let's get Creative in the Outdoors

For: Artists, early years practitioners, heads of centres, cultural managers, local authority advisors, early years professionals, arts or cultural organisations

Programme:

9.00 Coffee/tea/refreshments

9.30 Earlyarts Welcome… introduction to the day

10.00 Presentations

• Local Case Studies on developing Forest Schools practice

12.00 Networking Lunch and tour of host organisation.

13.00 Workshops: workshops will run twice concurrently, giving attendees the opportunity to attend both:

Forest Schools - equipping children to deal with life's challenges - Broomheath Plantation*

Workshop 1 – Bush Crafts

Workshop 2 – Games and Activities in the Outdoors

15.00 Sharing Experiences learning journeys and delivery plans, feedback and action planning.

15:30 Dates of next Professional Development Days and finish.

Places are free for Earlyarts members or £50 for non-members, refundable if you then go on to take out an Earlyarts subscription.

Book your place online at www.earlyarts.co.uk

* Broomheath Plantation is an organisation that specialises in delivering the Forest School ethos and method to equip children with skills that enhance their emotional intelligence, self esteem and self confidence allowing them to deal with life challenges more successfully.

Simon is a retired RAF Officer who has extensive experience of survival and rescue training. He is now an accredited Forest School trainer and is passionate about his work, taking life experiences and packaging them for children.

Stuart has travelled the World extensively, living in the Sahara and the Australian Outback and has a wealth of skills based around surviving with very little. He uses his knowledge of the education system to ensure that, as far as is possible, Forest School can be linked to curriculum studies.

They have developed their Baby Bushcraft sessions for our youngest children. They provide stimulating and exciting ideas for engaging children in imaginative play with natural materials. Children are offered challenges and problems they need to solve in the context of a story so they develop skills for a purpose.