KIN Homeschool is a space where children explore, create, and play with the natural world. Each session is guided by experienced Nature Playworkers, who support children to follow their curiosity, take healthy risks, and build confidence through hands-on discovery.

During Term 3, our focus turns to “Fire” one of nature’s most captivating teachers. Children are invited to explore what it means to make, tend, and care for fire safely and respectfully. Through guided play and practical experiences, they learn not only how to create fire, but how to be in relationship with it, understanding its warmth, its danger, and its role in community life.

Sessions begin with curiosity and observation. Children experiment with natural materials, exploring what burns, what smoulders, and what resists flame, connecting to Science - Chemical Sciences and Science Inquiry Skills as they investigate how materials change when heated and how oxygen, fuel, and heat interact.

As they practice safe fire lighting and care, children build skills and awareness linked to Health and Physical Education - Personal, Social and Community Health. They learn to assess risk, make careful decisions, and develop a calm approach to safety. Cooking on the fire adds a layer of learning, noticing smells, sounds, and textures while preparing food.

Through Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS), children explore the cultural and environmental significance of fire, how people across time and place have used, managed, and respected fire as part of daily life and ecosystem care.

The element of fire also inspires language, reflection, and storytelling, linking to English - Literacy and Language. Children share experiences and reflections around the fire circle, learning to listen deeply and communicate with presence and care.

Underpinning every session is Playwork, which honours play as the child’s way of understanding the world. Children are given agency to explore within clear safety boundaries, supported rather than directed by adults. They lead their own discoveries, striking sparks, experimenting with kindling, or quietly watching the flames.

Guided by Deep Nature Connection principles, the program invites a respectful relationship with the elements. Fire becomes a living presence, something to be tended, thanked, and understood. Children learn to sense when a fire is alive and when it needs rest, to read the smoke, and to recognise the gift of warmth and transformation it brings.

The practice of caring for fire becomes a metaphor for caring for self, others, and the land.

Please note, children must have turned 6 to attend KIN Homeschool. KIN Homeschool is a drop and leave program. Contact us if you have any questions about your child's ability to participate.

KIN Homeschool @ Crawley

Swan River Foreshore, Crawley

Theme: Fire

Cost: $470 per child/term

Time: 10am - 2pm

Dates: 8 week series

Tuesdays - July 28th; August 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th; September 1st, 8th, 15th