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(Rest assured, the sessions are well away from cottages and facilities used by guests!)

We are proud to have supported the Forest School initiative for many years and had regular school visits to the farm before budget cuts. We now have Muddy Feet who operate over school holidays at the farm, if you’re bringing kids with you to stay with us do check out their website to book your child in for a session.

MUDDY FEET® Inspires, educates, and engages through a connection with nature.

MUDDY FEET® Brings together behaviourial science, educational pedagogy, and therapeutic approaches to provide a range of nature-based consultancy services. Services include public events, training, and nature-based interventions. They have a team of highly trained nature-based experts including facilitators and trainers. They are innovators in providing nature-based solutions to social and environmental issues and work with a range of partners.

MUDDY FEET® believes that connecting with nature helps us have healthier, happier lives, and relationships. Nature connection helps us to appreciate, understand and protect nature. We know that nature connectedness can help promote resilience, good mental and physical well-being, emotional intelligence, team working, social skills, and pro-nature behaviour.

At Muddy Feet, they value nature connection and it runs through everything they do, in fact, it’s based on a growing body of research that they use in their programme development, design, and delivery.

MUDDY FEET® brings innovation to schools, communities, and organisations. Muddy Feet enables the opportunity for a wild time in today’s society that is filled with technology, social media, and screen time.

MUDDY FEET® is based at Heath Farm and in other locations in Cherwell on the North Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire borders but also work in a number of different locations across the country, both urban and rural and offer online training.

https://www.muddyfeettraining.co.uk

More about Forest School –

Forest School uses the woods and forests as a means to build personal confidence and self esteem in children and young people. It is a specialised learning approach that sits within and compliments the wider context of outdoor and woodland education. Oxfordshire has been at the forefront of Forest School in the UK and is one of the first counties to train and resource Forest School Leaders. Since 1995 Oxfordshire Forest School Service has had a team of practitioners whose role is to encourage teachers, nursery staff and youth workers to embrace this exciting approach to learning in challenging natural woodland environments.

Over 300 places such as nurseries and schools in Oxfordshire have regular Forest School embedded in their provision for families, children and young people and the number is rapidly growing. The sessions are not activity based but instead are led by the interests of the learners. Children, young people and families may enjoy such experiences as building dens, playing hide and seek, telling stories, cooking over small fires, climbing trees, hunting for mini beasts, making mud pies