We hosted an awayday with Exeter CVS. Lots of creative workshops to choose from including charcoal drawing, pencil making, printing, bookmaking, graffiti and clay. These images come from the charcoal and pencil making sessions. The materials were gathered from the Outdoor Creative Space. Willow to make charcoal, elder to make the pencils and the space to provide the inspiration. Lovely!

We had a great session with three students from Ellen Tinkham School in Exeter. We set up a base camp next the stream in Easterbrooks. Fire bucket, birdsong, herb collection, honeycomb, overhead canopy provided a sensory experience very different to the classroom. The students rode in the chariot, now renamed the iBex, around the field. The motion of the chariot was again very different to their normal experience of being in their wheelchair. It was great to hear an unprompted “I want another go!” from a young lad for whom unprompted speech is a distinct rarity. We are looking forward to developing links with Ellen Tinkham and the Hollow Lane Summer Club

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Explore the woods of West Town with stories and environmental games.