Are you looking for Playgroup & Bush Kindy opportunities for your young ones to socialise, build strength, knowledge, confidence & resiliency?
Are you looking for homeschooling learning activities for your kids, that you can do in nature, and with a wide range of ages?
Our Beach Wildlings offers just that in a multi-age, choose-your-own-adventure, safe and adventurous learning environment AND:

Registration for Term 1 BEACH Wildlings is now open!

Term 1 is a truly stunning term with the peak of summer vibes.
It is now widely recognised that outdoor learning environments offer increased resilience, focus plus overall long-term health, for all participants, parents included!

WHAT
Join us for an amazing term-long adventure learning all about nature in an outdoor, learning environment. We will have fun, run with flexibility, and give top-notch facilitation for a hyper-inclusive learning environment that meet the needs of the group. No child will be left out of the experience, no matter how young, old or shy. Multi-age learning environments let children grow into their affinities and learn from older children.

WHO

These nature based sessions welcome all children aged 2 to 7 to join and learn together. Classes will include craft activities for the different skill sets. If your child turns 2 by 31st of December 2023 then they are counted as being 3.

WHERE, WHEN, INVESTMENT
We will run for 3 hours from 10 am till 1 pm each Tuesday at Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary offering a morning class each day & a lunch hour, for $300 per child for 10 weeks. Please see our packages for siblings or families - we've done our best to make it affordable for all.
Siblings under 2 (as of the 31st of December 2023) can join for free.
Please note that a small booking fee exists through Humanitix and is donated to children charities.

We also offer a Beach Kindy experience in the afternoon - please contact us for information about this.

Sibling and family packages also available.

Casual rates also exist : please check out which option would work best for you on our ticket page!
And of course, feel free to hit the >Contact Host< button on this page for any queries.

Please note that by registering for a Full Term, you can come and go whenever you like from 10 am till 1 pm.
We have a special WhatsApp chat group set up so you can find us where ever we are.

WHAT WE WILL DO
Specific 2-hour themed classes will be running each Tuesday from 10 till 1pm & a Beach Kindy is on offer from 1 till 3 pm.
Classes, while being child-led, will uncover many different nature-based teachings ranging from learning about all the creatures in the area and how they live and what they do, to engaging our motor skills with movement and colourful crafting, identifying plants and "weeds", and learning about how they help our natural systems. We will make maps, tie knots, hunt bugs, find treasures, and be full of wonder! A strong focus on the First Nation people and their connection to the country is also woven into all teachings. We will also practice wrapping bandages and what to do if people are in need of aid. This is all part of creating an interconnected web of information that makes creative capable children. Older children (age 5 and above) will be encouraged to document their days in a scrapbook.

Our facilitator can provide guidance for homeschooling projects and many of the topic covered will feed into the homeschooling needs that many of you have in the community.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE
There is nothing else like this on offer. It has been created out of a place of passion and knowledge for the need of an all-day drop-in type session for our homeschooling community to have amazing learnings together! Therefore,

Parents need to attend with their child(ren) and be 100% responsible for them. We love to build community.
We will require you to sign a consent document that you are hiring the facilitator to be with you while we learn in nature.
Art materials are all provided.
Recommended/optional equipment you can bring could be your own bucket, tongs, binoculars, magnifying glasses.

At this stage, last term was very successful, we encourage you to book in quick as spots may fill up.

Please contact us if you have preferred day as we are still figuring out what works best for the community.

GET TO KNOW YOUR FACILITATOR
Claire is a passionate kids Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Support Worker and mum of two. She became a yoga enthusiast after becoming a parent and was astonished to find such powerful tools to aid alleviating stress and staying healthy in both body and mind. So much so, she decided she just had to pass them onto future generations! Hence, she qualified to teach with Rainbow Kids Yoga in 2016 and has loved spreading the joy of yoga, mindful movement and meditation ever since! She has more recently also become a support worker to neurodiverse kids, where her focus has been on art and nature exploration in addition to mindful movement and storytelling. Come join her as she lends her delightful and novel skill set for some vital grounding in nature starting Term 1 2023 at ‘Wildings Academy’!

Current WWC, First Aid & trained in early childhood and primary education.

GET IN TOUCH!
We encourage you to reach out and contact us about your questions. Here is a link to our Facebook, but you can also just press the contact host button bellow.

If you are very keen but Tuesday is absolutely impossible for you, please get back to us with the day(s) you can make it. We will consider opening another day only if there is enough demand.

THINGS WE WILL LEARN TOGETHER INCLUDE:
Plant Identification + Foraging + Medicinal Plants + Connection to Country through Aboriginal legacy + Caring for Environments + Learning all about ALL the Animals + Observation & Conversation + Making a Positive Impact + lots of Arts and Crafts for fine motor skills + Movement component for Emotional Expression + Social Collaboration + Story Telling + fun Bush Skills - like Knot Tying, Cubby Building, and very basic bush first aid.

Plus simply loads more Wild Learning!