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		<title>Falstone NCFE Creative Crafts Level 1 Weeks 17-19</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last month has been a busy one for the group at Falstone. Most of the shavehorses are now finished and in use. We have begun experimenting on projects with gypsy flowers and kuksas(swedish drinking cups). This has included collecting hazel from nearby woods and using fallen birch from Dipton Mill. The skill level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paddock 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the most &#8220;full on&#8221; session we have had for a while. The first Paddock session had been scheduled for Easter holidays but was cancelled on the day. Following excellent work by Lee Bray, the extended schools coordinator for the school, the promised 20 children turned into about forty individuals from about 18 families, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babes in the Wood 17</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 16:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rain held off today but the sky remained overcast. Almost thirty people came to the session during which we turned to a traditional tale by Hans Christian Andersen, Thumbelina, for inspiration. I altered and abridged the tale somewhat to cater to the sensibilities of a quite young group and to their concentration span. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Georges Day Festival &#8211; Hexham</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were pleased to be asked to contribute to the children&#8217;s activities at the annual St Georges Day Celebration in Hexham. This year we offered making dragon babies, dragon eyes and dragon eggs with nests. It was a busy and fun day seeing lots of familiar faces as well as a lot of new families. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dipton Woods Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deni</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child&#8217; ~Joan Almon The weather threatened April showers as we walked through Dipton Woods with the equipment ready for the 9th birthday party for twins Siobhan and Louis. The streams were running high and it was a matter of wading up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babes in the Wood 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first Babes in the Wood Friday session. The weather was cool but the sun came out from time to time and the rain held off. Our theme for the day was mini beasts and after the children put out the boundary ribbons and walked the fire circle, I told a story about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NCFE Cert. Bushcraft Leadership 7, 18 – 22 April</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plants in all forms were very much on the agenda this week. With the poisonous plant test looming (a paper test not a taste test I might add) the first morning was spent refreshing our knowledge of key identity points and poisoning symptoms. In a change of pace during the afternoon, we walked through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gorton Mount 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the morning group had lit Kelly Kettles in their last session, we decided to get them to make mallets. The best laid plans and all that&#8230;”What’s that, is it a bow?” said D. “Well yes it is but not the kind you are thinking of” was my reply. So tool time went out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Wildlife Project 22</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the very end of willow planting season we managed to install a 3 meter willow dome, and two tunnel entrances on the Community Centre garden site at Thornton Lodge. During a mammoth  seven hour session, young people from the Urban Wildlife Project and adult helpers, dug, weeded, planted and wove hundreds of willow withies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babes in the Wood 15 &#8211; Family session</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scully</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after Easter we ran the first Babes in the Wood session of 2012 as a prelude to starting weekly sessions. The day was an eggstraveganza of eggstra, eggciting activities. Following the usual safety talks and practices, I told a revised Jack and the beanstalk story entitled “Jock and the Oak tree”, handy in [...]]]></description>
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