Adventure Friday package

During the final year of preschool we offer our children the opportunity to attend our Adventure Fridays, a level up from our usual days in setting when we go offsite and explore the wider world. They are a fantastic way to build resilience and confidence ready for the next step after preschool, whatever that may be.

Adventure Fridays are run by level 3 Forest School practitioner, Chris, and Level 2 Outdoor Learning Practitioner, Carol, all staff have paediatric first aid and outdoor first aid training.

The day runs with a higher staff to child ratio to allow us to safely explore off site around the village and surrounding countryside and engage in more risky activities and tool use.

Our Adventure Friday package also includes -

• Nutritious breakfast and snack

• External visitors

• Sustainability and environment teaching

• Mindfulness activities

• Camp fire cookery

• Training in the safe use of tools

• Wild crafting

• Woodwork and sewing

• Road safety

• Access to Tracy’s woods

• Local community involvement

• Events such as Christmas Tree Farm visit, village carol singing etc

• Allotment work

• Nature studies

• Local history studies

• Trips to the shop

• Hire of buildings when required e.g. Scout hut

• Payment for food on trips if appropriate (e.g. ice creams in summer)

• Organised trips e.g. Wrest Park

• Local hikes and much more

Due to the increased opportunity of activities and support in these sessions the Education, Health and Wellbeing Package fee increases slightly for these sessions in line with the non funded rate for a Friday to help us to cover our costs of additional staff, resourcing and opportunities.

For those children wanting to join us for the Friday full sessions, children need to be in the top cohort, in other words, in the group leaving us the following July for school or home ed.

New Friday starters -

Existing children: For those eligible children who would like to start the Fridays they can join us in the autumn, spring or summer term of their final year as long as their key worker deems them to be ready.

New to preschool: If your child is eligible to join us for Adventure Fridays they need to attend a minimum of 3 sessions over Monday to Thursday and have attended for a minimum of 3 weeks and be settled and ready (as determined by their key worker) before joining us for Adventure Fridays. If claiming funding for this day it must be added to your funding form for the term, invoicing for this session for the sessions attended will be added to the following half term invoice.

EHW package fee for a Friday full day (from Apr 25): £21

Adventure Friday non funded day rate (from Apr 25): £57

All fess are subject to review and may change annually at the owners’ discretion

Mar 25