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| We will be putting up our course dates for 2012 in early September. We apologies for the delay but John and Caron are getting married next year and we need to sort our schedule out around this first! |
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| March 2011 |
| Hooray... we have won Best Bushcraft Company, Best Bushcraft Course and Best Bushcraft Instructor for 2010 through the Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine. Thisis the 2nd year running... We are waiting for the banners to prove it so watch this space. We would like to thank all of those who took the time out to vote for us. |
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| Wow, look what we won in the competition held by the Bushcraft and Survival skills magazine! |
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| As you can imagine we were very pleased to receive these awards and would like to thank everyone who took the time and effort to vote for us. With a readership of 55,000 it really is great to know that our courses are so well received. We cannot have done it without the staff (especially!), consultants and friends who have helped along the way so a MASSIVE thanks to all of you! |
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Three of our students, Jonathan Whymark, Richard Tiley and Daryl Peters from last years instructor course are planning to complete the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race in April 2010. The race is a gruelling 125 miles long and they hope to raise lots of money for our troops who have become injured as a result of operations in Afghanistan and elsewhere in world. Please give a donation if you can or forward this page on to someone who you think can give a donation. Every little helps! They have set up a Justgiving account at the following website where you can donate straight to Help For Heroes.
Click here to donate
http://www.justgiving.com/dwr
We will keep you updated of their progress where possible. |
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Over the summer and autumn 2009 we have had a BTCV group of 13 volunteers out to build a boardwalk, a bridge, a composting toilet and to clear a huge area of undergrowth which is currently being utilised by our school groups. We would like to extend our thanks to BTCV and hoped they enjoyed the bushcraft course we put on as a form of thanks for such an excellent job.
 
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We have been featured by the NCFE on their website as a case study. You can read all about it here by clicking on the logo
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| Is this the biggest Dryads Saddle? Finn and Caron found this while on a scramble a while back. The largest measured 67cms across -food for an army! |
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| In March 2009 we had a camp improvement weekend where an army of volunteers came to help us sort out a few bits around the camp. Many thanks to Damien and his tribe, Aaron & Corinne, Keith, George, Chas, Dom, Phil & Nikki and the myriad of exceptionally strong and keen teenagers who helped us out. We now have a new bridge, work tables, kitchen areas, log piles and a chipped work area- just beautiful. |
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Sign up for our Twitter and John's blog to keep up to date on what is happening at Woodcraft School and the action around the camp. So far we have seen a new erythristic Badger (now known as 'White Dave' -as named by Ben, Phil's son who saw him first) and numerous sign of deer which is encouraging. |
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| New courses announced |
| We are proud to deliver our new courses for 2011 in response to customer demand. We have a range of new Natural History Awards, our new Level 5 Diploma in Bushcraft Leadership (which has been a long time coming) and a selection of shorter woodland management and identification courses. Check this page out for more info |
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| Licence our Intermediate Bushcraft Award |
| This is growing in strength and recognition, so if you are an outdoor educator and interested in this innovative award, please find more information here. We are pleased to welcome 3 new centres to the fold in 2011. |
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| The first National Fire-by-friction Competition |
Woodcraft School hosted the first annual National Fire-by-friction Competition at the Wilderness Gathering in August 2010. The trophy went to Paul Grant from Hampshire with a winning time of 1:10:38. The best female was our very own instructor student Johannah Norton with a respectable time of 2:02:33 beating many competitiors over all. We raised a total of £90 for Help for Heroes Charity. Well done to everyone who took part and good luck again for 2011. |
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Woodcraft School has just been awarded an Investing in Quality Licence with the NCFE and this is testamount to our time and dedication to bushcraft and natural history education. For a small company it is a pretty big accolade as it puts us up there with the big boys of education.
This licence and its entry requirements are mapped to a range of standards; ISO 9001, Investors in People, EFQM, the Common Inspection Framework, Matrix and Recognizing and Recording Progression and Achievement (RARPA). It is the NCFE’s own interpretation of the above, nonetheless, it resulted in a vigorous interrogation of our processes! This approval is based on a number of Quality Statements which provide a quality assurance framework for the development, delivery and evaluation of learning activities. This
NCFE’s IIQ licence is designed to give formal, demand led recognition to organisations’ and it enables us to write and endorse more quality bespoke programmes. We are proud to have been given this logo below. |
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We have designed a series of badges for our accredited courses, look out for them on rucksacks across the UK and abroad!
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| Brand New Track Finally we have been lucky to achieve our long term goal of providing a new route into the woodlands. A very smart 900metres of fittleworth stone now heralds the arrival into camp. |
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| John has been writing for Bushcraft and Survival Skills magazine for the campcraft section and you can read them here. He has been in the last 8 issues and will be writing for them in the future. Lots of useful information in this mag which is becoming the leading publication of its type in the country. |
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| As some of you will notice we have updated our website and have given our little green man a new hat: -less county but more country! We also have a new References section which is under development but will be very useful eventually for many people. If you find any useful and safe websites you want to share with people and that fall into the following subjects: Kids (nature based stuff), Teachers, Forest Schools, Crafts, Natural History and Outdoor living please can you email a link to us? |
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| We also have a Wild Food Diary which is slowly getting there -so get out there and make the most of this seasons 'Flavours of the Month'. |
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