Courses

Outdoor Learning – Stone Age Camp

  • Wild food plant & tree identification
  • Safe use of hand tools to harvest wood to make spears, bows and arrows
  • Making charcoal and natural paints to create your own cave art painting.

This afternoon session will show ways of using the woodland as a natural resource to help children experience first-hand how the wild woods were used by early humans. Skills will include:

  • wild food plant & tree identification
  • safe use of hand tools to harvest wood to make spears, bows and arrows
  • making charcoal and natural paints to create your own cave art painting.

Curriculum links:

  • History – Stone ~ Iron Age hunter-gatherer & early farming living, art & culture
  • Science – seasonal changes & plant variation
  • Design & Technology  - managing risk, using tools and resources

This is an outdoor session, so participants will need to wear suitable clothing and footwear

Please note, parking at the Centre is pay & display (£1.20 for 2 – 4 hours)

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Nature Ed

NatureEd CIC is a Community Interest Company working in an agreement with Rochdale Council and offering a wide range of dynamic environmental education activities from an education base at Hollingworth Lake.

Judy Alderson & Jude Murray are Directors of NatureEd CIC and freelance environmental educators. Judy also works part time as a Countryside Ranger for Rochdale Council and Jude is a sessional instructor with Oldham Outdoor & Environmental Education Service.

These CPD workshops are a chance to share our knowledge of hands-on eco-activities and our expertise as Level 3 Forest School Practitioners.

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