Paula R

Last week at the Village was all about dogs and cats. The children visited the Dogs and Cats Exhibition at the Horniman museum and brought back some ideas to play with at the clubhouse. They learned fun facts about cats and dogs, shared amusing stories about their own cats and

The children were in the mood for adventure last week at the Village, so they packed up their bags, put on their wellies, and went on an expedition to the nearby Quaggy River. Having set up camp under a weeping willow, they set off to explore the river. The wellies

Ever curious about what each other are having for lunch, and feeling the others’ food is far more exciting than their own, the children came up with the idea of having a buffet, with everyone contributing and preparing food to share. So last week at the Village the children headed

Inspired by last week’s spontaneous creation of a hedgehog out of marshmallows and spaghetti, the children continued making hedgehogs this week. This time it was fruit hedgehogs and clay hedgehog pencil holders. In the clubhouse, the children designed and mended clothes, made a pillow, continued with stop motion animation,

Hi all, Children’s Village is a consent-based and self-directed education community for home educated children aged 6-12. We are based in an adventure playground with extensive outdoor space, a garden, and a park next door where the children often go skateboarding and rollerskating. We run on a termly basis,

Hi all, We're excited to let you know that we're running an open day in our Stockwell group next Friday afternoon, 27th May, 12:30-2:30pm. The address is Slade Gardens Adventure Playground, 73A & 73B Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA. The children are planning a guided tour of

It was a wildly creative and spontaneous week at the Village. After coming together for some team-building games where they worked together to stack paper cups without touching them and build towers out of spaghetti and marshmallows, the children separated out into smaller groups, following their imaginations into an array

Last week at the Village was the stuff of legend as the children continued to delve into the world of knights and castles, staging more epic battles, this time with toy knights and castles and board games, and making jewellery fit for kings and queens out of gems, wire, pliers

Some of the children recently looked after a hamster for a friend which sparked a fascination with all things hamster that spread throughout the Village. So this week the children grabbed their cardboard, scissors, tape and glue gun, and made their own hamster mazes. They also turned into hamsters themselves,

The children were spirited away to South America this week at the Village in a workshop on Colombia inspired by their love of the Disney film Encanto. They danced merengue and flamenco steps to the tunes of their favourite Encanto songs, tried one of the most popular foods in Colombia

We run Children’s Village, an exciting consent-based and self-directed education community for home educated children aged 6-11, and are looking for a new facilitator for one of our groups. Please get in touch with us  if you can do the following: design and deliver projects inspired by the children’

Hi all, We currently have a small number of spaces available at Children’s Village in Lee (SE12 8UF) on Mondays and Tuesdays! Children’s Village is a consent-based and self-directed education community for home educated children aged 6-11. We have a lovely base in a sports clubhouse in Lee

The children were getting ready for Easter this week at the Village, using wax and dyes to decorate eggs, and going on an Easter egg hunt in the garden. They also sowed seeds inside eggshells to grow cress heads and made egg cups out of clay to put the egg

The children continued their enjoyment of the coming of spring this week by celebrating Holi, the Hindu festival of colours. They danced to Indian music, made colourful paper dolls and went wild in the garden throwing coloured powders over each other. Like flowers turning their faces towards the springtime sunlight,

Spring was in the air at the Village this week with the children planting pea, cucumber, courgette, tomato and sunflower seeds which they later plan to plant out in the garden with each child having their own plot of land. They also made seed bombs which they threw into the

Our new leaflet for the Stockwell group is out! We have some spaces available - do not hesitate to get in touch with us to receive an info pack and start a trial.

Hi all, We just wanted to share some of our photos taken in the last few weeks. It was a great few weeks! We started the year by thinking what want to do this year and how we can get there by designing our own vision boards. Children in Lee

Hi all, Today we would like to share a handful of memories and photos from our recent winter party. A fair amount of preparation went into making this event a great success. For the previous couple of weeks the children made salt dough, card and pom pom decorations for the

Here at Children's Village we are big fans of card and board games. We usually play a few games during every session and have a lot of fun. That's how we came up with this new idea of hosting a board games afternoon and inviting more children. So come and

Dear Friends, We hope you all just had a wonderful holiday time. Happy New Year from our whole team at Children’s Village to you! Enjoy looking through our recent photos. We had an awesome term with plenty of experiments and Christmas activities, a winter party, a visit from Zoolab,

Great news! We are throwing a Children's Village winter party tomorrow! We're planning an open mic talent show, a Christmas slime workshop, a pom pom making workshop, decorating cookies, stalls, food and drinks, a raffle and games for the kids, including pass the parcel. Bring your family & friends and

Hello again, We think it’s high time to share with you some of our highlights last term. We had a wonderful time playing, learning and exploring! We saw a great mix of child and adult-initiated projects, regular explosions of creativity and imagination and truly incredible things taking place. There

Hi there, Just wanted to let you know that we have just started a ukulele class for ages 5-11 at 3:30pm on Tuesdays in Children’s Village Lee SE12 8UF. The kids are singing songs, strumming chords and working on simple melodies. The class is run by Oren Marshall

Dear Friends, We are absolutely delighted to tell you that last week Children's Village turned one! We celebrated the big occasion with bunting, two delicious cakes and homemade sweets. Woohoo! Paula and I feel extremely lucky that we can continue to support this group of  children who are free to

Hello friends, Hope you all had a lovely summer and are enjoying autumn. We owe you an update from the wonderful last few weeks we had before holidays so here we go. Summer term was filled with initiative, creativity and excitement. We ran a summer fair in Lee and even