🔥 Home Education Autumn 2: Fire, Force & Ancient Making 🔥

How have people used natural forces and materials to survive, create and tell stories?

This half term, children will step into a world of ancient makers, myths and journeys, exploring how people throughout history have worked with the natural world to build, create, survive and tell their stories.

Inspired by Norse mythology, ancient technologies and stories such as Arthur and the Golden Rope, children will experiment with clay, charcoal, natural pigments, weaving and dyes; build and test shelters; and investigate forces such as friction, levers and pulleys through practical challenges.

There’ll be opportunities to create ancient-inspired vessels and textiles, make banners and symbols, explore music and storytelling, perform myths around the fire and even cook simple seasonal food where appropriate.

Throughout the project, Science, History, English, Maths, Design and the Arts will be naturally woven into hands-on exploration, making, problem-solving and storytelling.

The children's discoveries and creations will gradually come together to form The Makers’ Encampment - an immersive space showcasing the skills, stories and ideas they have developed throughout the half term.

As always, our sessions are child-led and responsive. Children can engage with the invitations that interest them, explore ideas in their own way and have the time and space to be curious, creative and hands-on.

🔥 Home Education Autumn 2: Fire, Shelter & Stories 🔥

What makes a place feel like home?

This half term, children will explore shelter, warmth, community and belonging through stories of woodland homes, journeys and survival.

Through hands-on, child-led exploration, they’ll investigate natural materials and discover what makes a shelter strong, warm and weatherproof. Children might build and test full-size dens, create clay dwellings and miniature settlements, weave with natural materials, experiment with dyes and printing, tell stories around the fire and explore seasonal cooking.

Along the way, we’ll naturally weave together Science, English, Maths, History, Design and the Arts through measuring, testing, designing, storytelling, making and problem-solving.

The project will grow in response to the children’s ideas and discoveries, eventually coming together as a shared woodland settlement or gathering place — a space shaped by their creativity, collaboration and understanding of what it means to make somewhere feel like home.

As always at Our Wild Space, there’s no expectation for every child to take part in every invitation. Children are given the time, space and freedom to explore in the way that feels right for them, with learning emerging through curiosity, play and meaningful experiences.

🔥 Home Education Autumn 2: Fire, Force & Ancient Making 🔥

How have people used natural forces and materials to survive, create and tell stories?

This half term, children will step into a world of ancient makers, myths and journeys, exploring how people throughout history have worked with the natural world to build, create, survive and tell their stories.

Inspired by Norse mythology, ancient technologies and stories such as Arthur and the Golden Rope, children will experiment with clay, charcoal, natural pigments, weaving and dyes; build and test shelters; and investigate forces such as friction, levers and pulleys through practical challenges.

There’ll be opportunities to create ancient-inspired vessels and textiles, make banners and symbols, explore music and storytelling, perform myths around the fire and even cook simple seasonal food where appropriate.

Throughout the project, Science, History, English, Maths, Design and the Arts will be naturally woven into hands-on exploration, making, problem-solving and storytelling.

The children's discoveries and creations will gradually come together to form The Makers’ Encampment - an immersive space showcasing the skills, stories and ideas they have developed throughout the half term.

As always, our sessions are child-led and responsive. Children can engage with the invitations that interest them, explore ideas in their own way and have the time and space to be curious, creative and hands-on.

🔥 Home Education Autumn 2: Fire, Shelter & Stories 🔥

What makes a place feel like home?

This half term, children will explore shelter, warmth, community and belonging through stories of woodland homes, journeys and survival.

Through hands-on, child-led exploration, they’ll investigate natural materials and discover what makes a shelter strong, warm and weatherproof. Children might build and test full-size dens, create clay dwellings and miniature settlements, weave with natural materials, experiment with dyes and printing, tell stories around the fire and explore seasonal cooking.

Along the way, we’ll naturally weave together Science, English, Maths, History, Design and the Arts through measuring, testing, designing, storytelling, making and problem-solving.

The project will grow in response to the children’s ideas and discoveries, eventually coming together as a shared woodland settlement or gathering place — a space shaped by their creativity, collaboration and understanding of what it means to make somewhere feel like home.

As always at Our Wild Space, there’s no expectation for every child to take part in every invitation. Children are given the time, space and freedom to explore in the way that feels right for them, with learning emerging through curiosity, play and meaningful experiences.