Hideway Forest School | Bristol UK | What we get up to in the woods!

Week 8 - Stick Olympics

I have recognised that now I am not at forest school every week I am not moving around as much or getting as much exercise, are you the s...

Week 7 Part 1 - Wind

The weather has changed this week with strong cold wind blowing from the North. So todays activities are all related to the weather. Some...

Eat your trees! - Elder flower fritters and drink

When out for a walk I noticed that the Elder trees in sunnier positions have blossomed and are already coming near to the end of there be...

Week 6: VE Day celebrations 2020, the natural way!

The 8th May will mark 75 years since VE Day (victory in Europe) as the United Kingdom remembers the end of war in Europe. I have been thi...

Week 5: Part 2 Dandelion activities

If you read our article on Monday you will have started to find out a bit more about the Dandelion. Did you look at the Dandelions in the...

Eat your weeds!

Over the next few weeks I am going to share with you some plants that I have learned more about since training to become a forest school ...

Week 5: Part 1 Dandelion activities

Have you noticed the Dandelions that have popped up everywhere this week? I have seen hundreds of them pop up amongst the grass verges of...

Week 4: Part 2 Lockdown activity - Recording a moment in time

Spring has well and truly sprung. I am sure you have been spotting blossom, new buds and leaves growing on the trees and new spring time ...

Daisies

Today I had to drag the kids out the house. We all needed a bit of space more so than exercise so we all ended up relaxing in the sun in ...

Week 4: Part 1 lockdown activity - Colour to make you smile

This weeks activity involves you collecting an evergreen leaf and materials that you will find on the woodland floor or garden. You can e...

Welcome home school learners

This is just a quick note to welcome all our new site visitors. We send out an extra warm welcome to children of Henleaze infant and jun...

Wild garlic flatbreads

We have an abundance of wild garlic on our doorstep in Henleaze and north Bristol so I have been experimenting. I first made a wild garli...

What nature would you like to see in the future? - Activity 3

Yesterday my children and I thought about what would we like our garden to be like in the future so we decided to become landscape garden...

Add something a little special to your Easter weekend meals

When out for our daily walk in Badocks wood or Blaise Estate this week in north Bristol I have spotted lots and lots of wild garlic. We h...

Adjusting to the new norm - Weekly activities 2

At present we are all adjusting to the new circumstances we find ourselves in whether that be working at home, not working at all or like...

The Hideaway ASC Term 3 newsletter

After school club We started the New Year wrapping up warm and enjoying playing outside in the dark. The children enjoy playing in the da...

Exciting summer ahead!

We have been lucky this year to have a few snap shots of summer weather already. Spring time this year has been relatively dry with very ...

We are recruiting!

Do you love being outdoors? Are you excited about inspiring the next generation to turn off their screens and connect with nature? Do you...

Brrrrrr-illiant time outside!

I think the weather always looks worse when you’re looking at it through the window. The grey dreary sky, the rain dripping down the glas...

Get outside to sing and dance in the rain!

We were very excited today to erect our new shelter in the Kingsweston Hideaway, which provided us with some additional shelter to protec...

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