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Meet Our Moonlighters: Tally White Crafts

November 19, 2020

Supporting Small Businesses; More Important Now Than Ever We’re halfway through our second lockdown of 2020 and whilst the health of the nation and the

Behind the Bully

November 16, 2020

Anti-Bullying Week Today marks the beginning of Anti-Bullying Week, a campaign coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance in order to bring schools, professionals and families together

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Meet Our Moonlighters: Fox and Squirrel Creations

November 6, 2020

The ‘C’ Word Now it’s November, I feel that we can start to talk about Christmas without indignant cries that it’s too early to discuss

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Meet Our Moonlighters: Murphy’s Spoon

November 12, 2020

Finding The Perfect Present With just six weeks until Christmas, present buying for many is in full swing. But how to find the perfect present

Autumn Days At Home

October 27, 2020

New Approach Needed I don’t know about all the other fellow parents out there but as soon as talk turned to the impending half term

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Look Who’s Back!

October 21, 2020

A Surprise Delivery Nearly eight years ago, several friends and I had spent a night in the pub. As last orders approached the idea was

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Love Local

October 18, 2020

Support Local At The Outdoors Group, promoting sustainability and creating a good community is at the core of what we do; choosing to shop local

What Does Forest School Mean For You?

October 9, 2020

What does Forest School mean? For me, Forest School means freedom. It’s restorative and quite frankly, it’s essential. For other people though it may mean

Beyond The Classroom

October 1, 2020

A Brand New Course It seems fitting, given the context, that over the last few months The Outdoors Group have been looking to set up

Bigger and Better Than Ever

September 18, 2020

Where it all began The origin story of The Outdoors Group is one of friendship. Almost a decade ago, when the company began, it was

Back Into The Woods

September 8, 2020

A new approach This year, due to COVID-19, we changed up the holiday club schedule, so that the children participated over four consecutive days. By

Ode To Marshmallows

August 30, 2020

Today marks National Toasted Marshmallow Day and when we realised this a few weeks ago, we issued a challenge to our staff – to pen

Forest School Kindergarten; our journey continues

August 17, 2020

From humble beginnings… Four years ago, our team set about establishing a fully outdoors Forest School kindergarten at our Shillingford site. In those days,our entire company

Coming Out The Other Side

August 12, 2020

The sounds of people laughing, of drinks being poured and of children playing drifted across to our table. In short, the sounds of normality starting

Who’d Be A Headteacher?

July 24, 2020

It turns out the answer is me, who knew? I have been privileged to be the Headteacher of The Outdoors School since March and what

Plastic Free July

July 18, 2020

It probably won’t come as a surprise that here at The Outdoors Group, we are passionate about looking after the environment and the world we

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Mud, glorious mud!

June 29, 2020

There really is a day for everything and as it so happens, today is International Mud Day! As you can imagine, here at The Outdoors

Elderflower, my favourite forage of the year

June 23, 2020

Nothing else quite marks the beginning of summer for me like stumbling across freshly bloomed elderflower blossoms. Often, you smell it before you see it,