What does a typical day look like?
At Wildwood Nature School, we’re lucky to to have our bespoke-designed indoor base at
St. Mary Brookfield Hall in Dartmouth Park NW5, as well as being able to go out to local green spaces for our outdoor learning.
We spend the whole day on Tuesdays at a beautiful enclosed space near Kenwood - The Old Orchard Garden - that’s not open to the public, and we can have fires, do pond dipping and other Forest School activities.
On the other days, the children spend half their day outdoors, visiting Hampstead Heath, the land around St Anne’s Church (at which we’re developing a vegetable and flower growing project) and a secret garden in Dartmouth Park.
A typical day at Wildwood Nature School varies from day to day. We keep an element of flexibility to allow us to be able to respond to what the children need each day, but below are examples of typical days at Wildwood.
A typical day looks like this:
8.50am- Arrive at school. Family members are welcome
9.10am to come in and play with their children, speak
to teachers, or have coffee and chat with other
parents
9.15am Opening circle - community time:
lighting the candle, mindfulness, singing,
check-ins, storytelling, grounding
9.30am Phonics or English in small groups
10.15am Free play
10.45am Cross-curricular topic & project work
12pm Lunch (provided by school 2 days a week - packed
lunch on the other 3 days)
12.45pm My Time - quiet resting, mindfulness or reading
12.50pm Maths in small groups
1.20pm Walk to local green space
1.50pm Forest School activities and free play
3.30pm Closing circle to reflect on the day & walk back
to school
3.50pm Home time
On Tuesdays, we spend all day at the Old Orchard Garden, and below is a typical day there:
9am Arrival at the Old Orchard Garden
9.30am Opening circle - community time
10am Forest School activities / free play / exploration
of the woods / 1:1 reading / maths in small groups
12pm Packed lunch around the fire
12.30pm Well-being curriculum time
1pm Forest School activities / free play / exploration
of the woods / 1:1 reading / maths in small groups
3pm Closing circle
3.15pm Children can be picked up from the Old Orchard
OR
Travel back to school with teachers on the bus
for 4pm pick-up
