Something that’s been in my mind for a while, and today we finally got around to making our own kaleidoscopes from scratch. They seemed...

Our young people were learning the safe use of tools this afternoon- in fact, they were using shears to clear nettle. They made the...

Much cooler and quite overcast this afternoon, but there’s was lots of potion making! We have lots of herbs on the plot, and the mint is...

Probably the last of the really warm weather for a while, so at our after school session we did some work on the allotment- weeding,...

‘What would you like to do first?’ ’Painting!’ Our small group this week were very keen to get out the watercolours! They then made a...

Beautiful day at the allotment- we set up a camp in the wildflower area, and had a fabulous afternoon of crochet, and knitting! Very...

We had a visit from a group of students from Derby university, who were interested in alternative settings for education. We used bowsaws...

What a change in the weather- we hope it lasts for a while! Definitely time for outdoors reading and painting, and we did a few gardening...

Our volunteer session was very productive- we took a load of thornless gooseberry cutting. Hopefully, if they take, we will have plenty...

One of the lovely things about winter after-school sessions is being able to see the stars. We sometimes use a free star chart app to...

We had plenty of work to do in this week’s after school session -which is how we like it, as it’s pretty cold after the sun has gone...

We had a huge pile of bark chippings to move at the allotment, which we were very glad of as it kept us warm!

We had a huge pan of pumpkin soup (using a monster pumpkin given to us from one of the Crow Wood allotment neighbours!), plus hot mulled...

We will carry on with our after school sessions even as the nights are drawing in. We have fab lights in the greenhouse, which makes it a...

We’re going to be doing a series of wire sculpture sessions in our home education art group, and we started off creating trees!

They’ve been amazing, not least because they made such lovely, magical leafy archways everywhere, but today we decided the runner beans...

This week’s after school session was so lovely and warm- we thought that autumn had come to stay, but apparently not! Delicious dinner of...

We have been collaborating with Air Arts at the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) for a number of years, exhibiting work as...

The beginning of September and it’s been so hot! We cooked our first after school tea out in the shade, and moved the seating outside...

Our after school sessions are about to start, but on this last summer session, we tried our first sweet corn, as well as making wooden...