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Home Education

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HOME EDUCATION

Wednesdays and Fridays drop off sessions

This is a session for home educated children aged 5 and over. Full autonomy. Each week we have a range of activities available for the children to participate in. This includes guided nature activities such as woodwork, knot tying, fire starting, cooking on the fire, and natural arts and crafts.

Our ethos at Mud Club is to allow the children to explore nature in a supportive and nurturing environment . All activities are consent based, playful and with a hands on approach! We are always eager to hear the children's opinions about what else they would like to do at Mud Club and how we can facilitate their ideas.

The idea of booking the half term is to enable the children to settle into their visit to us each week - to grow individually as well as part of the group. We hope that together the children will come up with their learning patterns which we can support and build together. Being in nature, the children can witness the cycle of the seasons, and see how the site changes as the weeks go by. We also hope to begin ongoing projects that will evolve each week.

Ellie and Emily share a love of creating nutritious and delicious food, and are always finding new dishes to cook with the children! There is something so special about cooking on an open fire!

All practitioners that work at Mud Club are DBS checked. We have Paediatric and Outdoor First Aid Training , Safeguarding Training and food hygiene. We are also Ofsted registered.

Mud Club Timetable:

See a schedule of our upcoming events

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Saturday drop offs

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SESSIONS

Saturday drop offs

Our ethos at Mud Club is to allow the children to explore nature in a supportive and nurturing environment. All activities are consent based, playful and with a hands on approach. We are always eager to hear the children's opinions about what else they would like to do at Mud Club and how we can facilitate their ideas.

At each session we will have a range of age-appropriate structured activities available for the children to participate in. This will include guided nature activities such as woodwork, knot tying, fire starting, cooking on the fire, and natural arts and crafts, as well as plenty of opportunity for free play in nature. They will be developing life skills such as building relationships, problem solving, critical thinking, reasoning, resilience, adaptability and risk assessing. 

Mud Club Timetable:

See a schedule of our upcoming events

BOOK HERE

Music in the trees – Adult and child session

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ADULT AND CHILD SESSIONS

Music in the trees - Monday mornings

Every week Mud Club welcomes a musician to help us start the week off on the right note! Our resident guest musician is the fabulous Oren Marshall, however we have some other amazing artists who join us when Oren is unavailable.

Whilst Mud Club nourishes you with hot drinks and tasty food cooked on the fire, the small ones will have the freedom to make music and explore in nature. A two hour weekly musical reset in nature, for children with their adults.

Some of our regular musicians

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Oren Marshall

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Bassist Tom Herbert is a long-standing member of London's thriving jazz and alternative music scene,

Bassist Tom Herbert is a long-standing member of London's thriving jazz and alternative music scene, performing and recording with a diverse range of artists and groups. Born in London, Tom studied Jazz and Classical double bass at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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Portia Winters

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Alice Grant

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Her work ranges from singing with a cappella vocal duos to conducting a 100-voice choirs,

Alice Grant is a singer, composer and choir director from London. Her work ranges from singing with a cappella vocal duos to conducting a 100-voice choirs, leading youth choirs on the BBC to singing vocals with Ruth Goller’s SKYLLA.

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Family festival sessions

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SESSIONS

Family festivals

A special session for children of all ages with their grown ups. Come and spend time in nature while Mud Club nurtures the whole family. We will have either a dancer, a singer or a storyteller to with us to entertain you

Mud Club Timetable:

See a schedule of our upcoming events

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Adult Mud Club

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SESSIONS

Adult Mud Club

Our adult mud clubs are beautiful things. We meet together to sing, dance, craft and eat. We have had a few different practitioners joining us and each session is different and wonderful in its own way. We celebrate the seasons. In-between workshops, we will provide homemade food, special drinks, and mindful, nature based crafts to take home.

Some of our practitioners that join us

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Portia Winters

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Voice Workshop - Portia will lead us in vocal exploration, connecting with our breath, voices and sounds of the forest. She has the magical ability to coax even the most reluctant participants to find their voice. Previous attendees of Portia’s workshops have described it as ‘better than therapy’ and ‘she takes you out of your comfort zone and into a new zone of comfort’.

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Rosie Nockter

Dance Teacher

Movement workshop - led by Rosie, to connect us to our bodies and nature. Drawing from Body Mind Centring, Mindfulness, Feldenkrais, Yin Yoga, Gaga, and more, she will lead us on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the transformative power of dance.

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Tracey

Soundscape
Ellie is an interior designer, who has always had a passion for the outdoors.

SoundScape by Tracey, before we float back to reality in an ultimate state of relaxation! Lay back beneath the trees whilst absorbing the sound and vibration created by crystal singing bowls - each bowl is tuned to a note that is said to correspond with the chakras in your body to promote a sense of calm, relaxation and healing.

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Wreath making workshop

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Seasonal Events

Wreath making workshop

We will be running some wreath making workshops in early December. We have run them for a few years now and they are so lovely! For background, in another guise I am an Interior Designer and Emily has spent much of her life in her mums garden centre. So these wreaths we help people make are pretty special and pretty natural but with a touch of class!
 
Friday 6th will be a beautiful adult only session with festive drinks and snacks. We will run a daytime child friendly wreath making on the 7th December. 
 
These wreaths are made on a gorgeous elegant gold hoop which can be recycled each year.
 
Check our timetable for more info

Mud Club Timetable:

See a schedule of our upcoming events

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Holiday Clubs

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SEASONAL EVENTS

Holiday Club

We offer holiday club days which usually run 10-4pm in most of the school holidays. Do look out for them in our timetable as they get booked up really quickly.
 
There will be a range of nature based activities akin to our Saturday sessions. So great for your kids to try our Saturdays too. Natural crafts, woodwork and bushcraft will be on offer as well as a chance to help prepare and cook snacks on the open fire. 
 
Please note that being ofsted registered means we can offer the children full autonomy of what they want to do. We believe in giving children time in nature with a bit of freedom is very important. Therefore we will never force children to partake in the activities on offer.
 
We do have some rules which are there purely to keep the children safe and happy and we run through these with them at the beginning of each session.

Mud Club Timetable:

See a schedule of our upcoming events

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Corporate Package

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CORPORATE PACKAGE

Out of the office - into wilderness. Relax in nature so you can fully express yourself and connect with your team

We are delighted to offer a corporate package unlike any other! Get out of the office and into nature by treating your staff to a day of team bonding in a tranquil private woodland. If you can't come to us let us come to you - We will bring crafts and forest calm to direct to your office.

Our site is fully enclosed and secluded, with no running water or electricity (but a lovely compost loo!), so you will really feel as if you have been in the remote countryside. We are a ten-minute walk from Catford Bridge Station with London Bridge a 12-minute train journey away. Our offering allows companies to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and the busyness of working life. Switch off and relax while we nurture you, or get stuck in and feel like you are camping! Do get in touch for more info and download our full package details.

Some activities on offer

We will tailor our activities to your preferences. Some of the options on offer include:

Light a fire without matches, using a special tool known as dragon’s breath.

Make a beeswax candle, bath salts, flower crown, stone weaving and painting,
botanical fabric print and more.

Have you ever wanted to make something out of wood? Learn the basics of the mindful art of whittling,
which promotes calm and reflection.

Climb trees, relax in a hammock, or chat with nourishing
food and drinks under a canopy of leaves.

On top of the activities listed, we are able to offer the following options at an additional cost, subject to availability.

1. Singing and Vocal Exploration Workshop
2. Stretch & SoundScape
3. Dance and Movement Workshop
4. Storytelling and Drama Workshop
5. Live Music

Mud Club Corporate PDF:

For more information about what we offer please download our Corporate PDF or contact us for more info.

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