Trips & Workshops
Thor’s Cave with walking guide
We love the outdoors and regularly go walking but it's always to the same places that we already know. It was time to get more adventurous (and more organised!).
Categories
Geography | Natural World | Sports and exercise | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester | UK Trips - rest of UK
Bolton Solar Farm
We spent a really interesting hour at Bolton’ solar farm on Salford Road this week. I saw a family tour advertised on Facebook and so we signed up for free. The tour was hosted by their education officer. She went through the science of how solar panels work and explained why that particular site was ... Read more
Categories
Environmental Management iGCSE | Geography | Physics | Science | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
An introduction to orienteering at Dove Stones
We’re fortunate to live within easy reach of a lot of beautiful walks, and one of our favourites is Dove Stone Reservoir in Greenfield. It was somewhere we spent a lot of time when the girls were very small, but since lockdown we’ve given it a wide berth as the majority of Greater Manchester discovered ... Read more
Categories
Geography Fair
One of the mums in the Stockport Home Ed Facebook group (Sarah from Let Them Be Small, @mssburns on Instagram) organises various home-ed fairs throughout the year where children can display what they’ve been learning. We went to our first one last week on the topic of geography. Agatha did a display on the Earth’s ... Read more
Categories
Map reading course and plane crash sites
When I saw Tony of Riley’s Outdoor Adventure was running a map reading course, we got signed up straight away. There were four sessions which involved learning how to navigate with an OS map and compass, how to use six-figure grid references and generally how to find your way in various conditions and using landscape ... Read more
Categories
Careers, life skills and volunteering | Geography | History | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
A night at the Museum. Literally.
Our first day back for the start of the new academic year was a lot more interesting than previous years. We spent the night at
a sleepover at the Natural History Museum in London. What an amazing experience!
Categories
Trips | Geography | History | Natural World | Science | UK Trips - rest of UK
Navigation Course at Delamere Forest
We had a family day out to join a navigation course run by Forest Explorers over in Delamere Forest. This course was one of many events they run specifically for home educators. The aim of the day was to learn about OS maps and how they help us to navigate. We also learned how to ... Read more
Categories
Forest School | Geography | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
The Water Cycle in a bag!
As part of our states of matter learning, we looked at the Water Cycle and how we are now drinking water which the dinosaurs would have drunk too! We then tried to show the water cycle in action. It would have been more effective if we’d picked a sunny day but they’re in short supply ... Read more
Categories
Fossil hunting in Whitby
This was Peggy’s rather delayed birthday treat (thank you Covid). We did a fossil hunting trip with Byron from Natural Wonders in Whitby. He gave us loads of tips on how to find fossils and his knowledge was incredible. It was amazing to see actual dinosaur footprints in the rocks and to hold a fossil ... Read more
Categories
Geography | History | Natural World | Science | Trips | UK Trips - rest of UK
