Highway Farm Activity Centre- Outdoor learning and play

An outdoor education centre for people of all ages including schools, youth groups, Scouts, Guides, families and friends. Activities on offer include:BIKE HIRE, kayaking, mountain biking, archery, den building, team building, stream walking, orienteering, camp fire cooking, sand dune jumping and beach games, rock pooling and beach studies, field studies and foraging. "Little Explorers" - an outdo

or learning centre for 3-4 year olds. Day care 50 weeks a year. Little Explorers is based at Highway Farm Activity Centre and is run by them. We operate in an Eco friendly Timber building with a back to basics, cosy atmosphere. The building is heated by a log burner and water heated on it. We have a compost toilet and are wrapped internally with carbon zero insulation. We try to offer the best of both worlds with a secure natural indoor space, a stimulating and challenging outdoor, enclosed area for free flow. All surrounded by an acre and a half field for the freedom and exhilaration the natural outdoors has to offer. We take children from 3 years old until they start school and offer the free entitlement funding from the term after your child is 3. We base our EYFS curriculum around the outdoors and nature and are outdoors in all weathers for the majority of the day. A typical day is spent collecting the eggs from the chickens, cooking snack over the camp fire, building dens to story tell in and children initiating their own play and learning. Opportunities are presented through the outdoors in a range of purposeful contexts for children to appreciate and respect nature. Most of our resources are from natural materials found in the local environment. We plant, nurture, harvest and eat vegetables and fruit and incorporate physical opportunities into every day activities. We have also fully adopted the Healthy Early Years Program within our setting. We believe these opportunities give children flexible ways of working with and in nature to develop and learn. Trips to local environments such as the beach, woods or mining heritage add to the learning environment and appreciation of local surroundings. We support and encourage children through outdoor learning to develop their emotional confidence and self esteem. Children are also supported and encouraged to manage their own risks and to develop their life skills through using the correct tools for a purpose. For more information or an informal tour of our setting please contact the centre on 01209 211905 or 07798630481
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Holiday playschemes during every school holiday for children aged 3-7 years and 8-14 years old.