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Past Events
Multiple DatesWed, 10 AprEaster Play 2024/Sawpit Woods10 Apr 2024, 09:30 – 14:30Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UKLet's get back to the woods! This Easter we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.- 13 Feb 2024, 10:00 – 15:00Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Parrock Ln, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UKBring your gloves, energy and enthusiasm. We will play, sing, tend and mulch the trees to help support and nurture them into their fourth year of growth into a woodland. Bring your lunch to refuel and playful heart to share, connect and eat pancakes around a warming fire in the afternoon.
Multiple DatesWed, 16 AugSummer Play 2023/Sawpit Woods16 Aug 2023, 09:30 – 14:30Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UKLet's get back to the woods! This summer we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.- 01 Nov 2022, 09:15 UTC – 13 Dec 2022, 11:00 UTCSawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UKCome and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Winter emerge around us. We will meet for 7 weeks from Tuesday 1st November- Tuesday 13th December.
- 13 Sept 2022, 09:15 UTC – 18 Oct 2022, 11:00 UTCSawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UKCome and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Autumn emerge around us. We will meet for 6 weeks from Tuesday 13th September- Tuesday 18th October.
- 12 Sept 2022, 15:15 – 17 Oct 2022, 17:00Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UKAfter school club in the woods! Children will be collected from St Mary's school and walk themselves to the woods every week until 5pm. This term is 6 weeks. £10 per week, or £8 sibling discount. Dates are Monday 12th, 19th, 26th September and 3rd, 10th, 17th October 2022.
Multiple DatesWed, 24 AugSummer Play 2022/Sawpit Woods24 Aug 2022, 09:30 – 14:30Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UKLet's get back to the woods! This summer we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.
Multiple DatesFri, 19 AugFamily Day in the woods/Sawpit Wood19 Aug 2022, 10:00 – 14:00 BSTSawpit Wood, Sawpit Wood, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UKBring your children of all ages and come and hang out in the woods together this summer. Parents, babies, toddlers, children and friends, all are welcome, the more the merrier. Come and share the space, the woodland and have some gentle, creative time exploring together this summer.- 07 Jun 2022, 09:15 UTC – 19 Jul 2022, 11:00 UTCSawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UKCome and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Winter emerge around us. We will meet for 7 weeks from Tuesday 7th June- Tuesday 19th July.
- 25 Apr 2022, 15:15 – 23 May 2022, 17:00Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UKAfter school club in the woods! Children will be collected from St Mary's school and walk themselves to the woods every week until 5pm. This term is 5 weeks. £10 per week, or £8 sibling discount. Dates are Monday 25th April, Monday 2nd ,9th, 16th, 23rd May.
- 19 Apr 2022, 09:15 UTC – 24 May 2022, 11:00 UTCSawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield TN7 4AR, UKCome and bring your small person or people with you, for a potter in the woods every Tuesday morning to explore, play and connect with each other and the woodland, whilst we see Summer emerge around us. We will meet for 5 weeks from Tuesday 19th, 26th April, 3rd, 10th, 23rd April. NOT 17th May.
- 07 Apr 2022, 13:00 – 08 Apr 2022, 15:00Sawpit Woods, TN7 4ARThis is an afternoon in the woods on Thursday 7th April for local Forest School practitioners. There are a few lovely Forest School practitioners really locally, so we thought we would love to meet to share space, ideas, inspirations and gossip in Sawpit Woods.
Multiple DatesWed, 06 AprEaster Play April 2022/Sawpit Woods06 Apr 2022, 09:30 – 14:30Sawpit Woods, Hodore Farm, Hartfield, TN7 4AR, UKLet's get back to the woods! This Easter we are running sessions in our woodland. Send the small people to come and have fun, be free, explore, work together, create, be independent, build resilience and get on with the important business of being a child and learning through the freedom of play.
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"First an activity needs to be entered into voluntarily; second it needs to be intrinsically motivating- that is you engage in an activity because it gives you a sense of pleasure, or enjoyment; and finally, the outcome is not known in advance."
- Priest, 1999.
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