Initial Research Findings/Thinking

1 -  Analysis of clients website etc.

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• who are they - Naturebase school camps are an inspirational residential camping environment for primary schools providing unparalleled learning experiences for every child who comes to stay. One of the best ways to describe it is a 24 /7 forest school experience where they live and learn outside, but with the comfort of their large stone barn for eating, teaching, relaxing and playing in if needed.

• what do they do with schools - Only one school stays at a time and they work with the group from dawn until after dark each day. Activities:
  
  Helping out (meals), Warm up games, West Wales adventure, Survival in the wild, Developing a sustainable future (A range of activities based around living more sustainably, promoting a deeper understanding of environmental issues, locate the best place for a wind turbine, make cob/earth bricks, build a solar oven, help construct a bug hotel and make and float a solar powered boat.), Outdoor Pizza Making, Art in the landscape (From scavenging in the landscape we can create natures palette, sculptures, wet clay faces and puppets, natural tie dying, name plates collages, mobiles, leaf bowls, aboriginal art paintings, nettle paper, cob bird boxes, and masks.), Wilderness woodland crafts, Farmers in training, Bugtastic, Muddy messy obstacle course, Celtic safari, Rivers and streams, Forest Skills and woodland ways, Aberaeron Harbour town, Crab fishing off the harbour, Raft building on the beach, Learning and building together (Through a series of imaginative team challenges, children will experience a variety of problems to solve, testing leadership and group skills along the way essential skills towards active global citizenship), Visit a Welsh speaking school, Day excursions (These are possible at the Centre for Alternative Technology (C.A.T.) and the hands on Dolaucothi Roman gold mines and the lead mines near Aberystwyth.), Evening activities include-Experiencing a night time safari, singing around the campfire, hunting for bats, orienteer around the site by torch light or just listening to stories under the stars. 
  
  
• what do they do with teachers groups