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  • Summer Solstice Celebration 2024
    Summer Solstice Celebration 2024
    Sat 22 Jun
    22 Jun 2024, 13:30 – 17:30
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    We are celebrating Summer Solstice by gathering together in the woods. We'll tend trees, play games, make and craft and end the afternoon with songs around the campfire.
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  • Easter Play 2024
    Easter Play 2024
    Multiple Dates
    Wed 10 Apr
    Sawpit Woods
    10 Apr 2024, 09:30 – 14:30
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    Let's get back to the woods! This Easter we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.
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  • Friends of Sawpit Woods tree tending day
    Friends of Sawpit Woods tree tending day
    Tue 13 Feb
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm
    13 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 15:00
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Parrock Ln, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    Bring your gloves, energy and enthusiasm. We will play, sing, tend and mulch the trees to help support and nurture them into their fourth year of growth into a woodland. Bring your lunch to refuel and playful heart to share, connect and eat pancakes around a warming fire in the afternoon.
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  • Winter gathering
    Winter gathering
    Mon 18 Dec
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm
    18 Dec 2023, 10:00 – 14:00
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Parrock Ln, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    A community day supporting our Children's Forest and Sawpit Woods. Connect with our native trees and celebrate mid winter in the woods.
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  • Seed, song and foraging.
    Seed, song and foraging.
    Tue 24 Oct
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm,
    24 Oct 2023, 10:00 – 14:00
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm,, Parrock Ln, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    A community day supporting our Children's Forest. Meet some of our native trees & learn about their ecology, lore, food & medicine through song & story.
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  • Summer Play 2023
    Summer Play 2023
    Multiple Dates
    Wed 16 Aug
    Sawpit Woods
    16 Aug 2023, 09:30 – 14:30
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    Let's get back to the woods! This summer we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.
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  • Winter Forest School Stay and Play
    Winter Forest School Stay and Play
    01 Nov 2022, 09:15 UTC – 13 Dec 2022, 11:00 UTC
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    Come and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Winter emerge around us. We will meet for 7 weeks from Tuesday 1st November- Tuesday 13th December.
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  • Monday day in the woods 'till dark!
    Monday day in the woods 'till dark!
    31 Oct 2022, 15:15 GMT – 12 Dec 2022, 17:00 GMT
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    After school club in the woods! 7 weeks from 31st October- 12th December. Children will be collected from St Mary's school and walk themselves to the woods every week until 5pm.
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  • Autumn Forest School Stay and Play
    Autumn Forest School Stay and Play
    Tue 13 Sept
    13 Sept 2022, 09:15 UTC – 18 Oct 2022, 11:00 UTC
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    Come and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Autumn emerge around us. We will meet for 6 weeks from Tuesday 13th September- Tuesday 18th October.
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  • Monday Forest School Club Autumn 2022
    Monday Forest School Club Autumn 2022
    12 Sept 2022, 15:15 – 17 Oct 2022, 17:00
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    After school club in the woods! Children will be collected from St Mary's school and walk themselves to the woods every week until 5pm. This term is 6 weeks. £10 per week, or £8 sibling discount. Dates are Monday 12th, 19th, 26th September and 3rd, 10th, 17th October 2022.
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  • Summer Play 2022
    Summer Play 2022
    Multiple Dates
    Wed 24 Aug
    Sawpit Woods
    24 Aug 2022, 09:30 – 14:30
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    Let's get back to the woods! This summer we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.
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  • Family Day in the woods
    Family Day in the woods
    Multiple Dates
    Fri 19 Aug
    Sawpit Wood
    19 Aug 2022, 10:00 – 14:00 BST
    Sawpit Wood, Sawpit Wood, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    Bring your children of all ages and come and hang out in the woods together this summer. Parents, babies, toddlers, children and friends, all are welcome, the more the merrier. Come and share the space, the woodland and have some gentle, creative time exploring together this summer.
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  • Friends of Sawpit Woods
    Friends of Sawpit Woods
    Sat 25 Jun
    Sawpit Wood
    25 Jun 2022, 10:00 – 14:00 BST
    Sawpit Wood, Sawpit Wood, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    SORRY- WE HAVE HAD TO CANCEL THIS
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  • Summer Forest School Stay and Play
    Summer Forest School Stay and Play
    07 Jun 2022, 09:15 UTC – 19 Jul 2022, 11:00 UTC
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    Come and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Winter emerge around us. We will meet for 7 weeks from Tuesday 7th June- Tuesday 19th July.
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  • Monday After School Club  Summer 2022
    Monday After School Club  Summer 2022
    25 Apr 2022, 15:15 – 23 May 2022, 17:00
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    After school club in the woods! Children will be collected from St Mary's school and walk themselves to the woods every week until 5pm. This term is 5 weeks. £10 per week, or £8 sibling discount. Dates are Monday 25th April, Monday 2nd ,9th, 16th, 23rd May.
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  • Early Summer Forest School Stay and Play
    Early Summer Forest School Stay and Play
    19 Apr 2022, 09:15 UTC – 24 May 2022, 11:00 UTC
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UK
    Come and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Summer emerge around us. We will meet for 5 weeks from Tuesday 19th, 26th April, 3rd, 10th, 23rd April. NOT 17th May.
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  • Forest Gossip
    Forest Gossip
    Thu 07 Apr
    Sawpit Woods
    07 Apr 2022, 13:00 – 08 Apr 2022, 15:00
    Sawpit Woods, TN7 4AR
    This is an afternoon in the woods on Thursday 7th April for local Forest School practitioners. There are a few lovely Forest School practitioners really locally, so we thought we would love to meet to share space, ideas, inspirations and gossip in Sawpit Woods.
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  • Easter Play April 2022
    Easter Play April 2022
    Multiple Dates
    Wed 06 Apr
    Sawpit Woods
    06 Apr 2022, 09:30 – 14:30
    Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UK
    Let's get back to the woods! This Easter we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.
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"First an activity needs to be entered into voluntarily; second it needs to be intrinsically motivating- that is you engage in an activity because it gives you a sense of pleasure, or enjoyment; and finally, the outcome is not known in advance."

- Priest, 1999.

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