Schools
Trackways Schools programs
We offer survival and nature study excursions on our beautiful 40 acre ancient woodland site in Sussex. The site can be visited for several hours or up to five day camp outs where in depth instruction in various subjects can take place. We can also bring various activities to your school from simple craft projects, themed days to full scale construction of your own historic or prehistoric dwelling for the enhancement of your site. From 2005 we will be offering an O.N.C. level training in survival skills.
This is our seventh year of working with schools. We seek to inspire life long fascination and enjoyment of the natural world. Our work incorporates many curriculum requirements and promotes confidence, cognitive ability, while inspiring the imagination too. We work with most age groups and levels of ability.
If you would like an itinerary for day or longer courses please e-mail or phone 01273 480429.
Survival Adventure
This takes us in to the forest where we can make shelter from what we find.
Create wild fire by friction. Find and purify water and explore what we need to survive in a fun and exciting way. This quality of experience builds confidence and life skills.
The level of excitement this creates gives us scope for all the skills and teaching to come together in a holistic way with stories, games and hands on experience.
This can be for local schools in a series of short sessions, whole days or several day camp outs.
We also design day courses on specifc subjects such as Trees, Wild foods, Bird lore and many more.
Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Natural Mystery
This opens up to us a world of exploration: We become Nature Detectives unravelling the mysteries of nature,
from Tracking, learning about animals and their environmental needs. Finding and identifying their signs, from nibbled nuts to their final track, their bones.
Looking at feathers and identifying the birds they come from.
Understanding the language of tracking how to read the earth, unbelievable as it may sound we barely see anything that is going on around us in nature, tracking teaches us how to look and really see who was there , when, and what they did.
Natural mystery asks questions about what is around us and stimulates curiosity and the desire to unravel any mystery we encounter.
We are introduced to the sacred question that leads us on a quest always discovering new things from now until we can ask no more.
We also explore trees and plants learning to identify them and what they have been used for through history and what we can use them for now.
We discover that we can get all our needs met from the plants and trees around us.
We learn to identify them from leaf, flower and bark.
As we move from the class room we discover tracking in the field.
We also discover that we can expand our awareness and begin to understand the bird song and calls and what this can mean as we move in the environment.
We discover ancient Apache scout skills of invisibility and awareness that both help us understand our environment and increase our animal encounters.
Living History
Our meet a cave man program, brings us face to face with the equipment and methods used by Neolithic and Mesolithic people.
From flint and how to knapp it to ancient methods of making fire.
How all the parts of the animal were used and what for.
We discover Bone needles and hooks and depending on facilities and levels of experience we can engage in some of these ancient practices.
Making string from plants, digging clay from the ground and preparing it making pots to be fired.
Nibbling, drying, grinding and preparing wild foods.
We can also examine the use of plant remedies through the ages discovering some of the active ingredients of simple plants that grow in the play ground.
We can also build historic structures with the children either on our site or yours. Creating a valuable and unforgettable experience.