Activity-based learning groups
Explore & Learn Groups
Welcome to our Explore & Learn, Face-to-face sessions.
Join our face-to-face Explore & Learn sessions, designed for home-educated children aged 5-8! Perfect for young learners who love hands-on activities, each week brings a new and exciting theme that makes learning fun while building key maths and English skills in a playful way.
What to Expect:
Each week, we explore a different theme, covering subjects like maths, science, geography, art & craft, and coding. Our sessions are designed to keep learning interactive and exciting while helping children develop important skills in a supportive and relaxed environment.
Session Themes Include:
- 🌱 Science Explorers – Fun experiments and hands-on learning.
- 🧮 Fun with Maths – Playful activities like baking and crafts to develop maths skills in a fun way.
- 🌏 World Explorers – Discover different countries and cultures through geography-based creative and practical projects.
- ✂️ Art Explorations & Nature Creations – Art and craft sessions inspired by nature and re-creating our own art inspired by famous artists.
- 🗺️ Storytime Adventures – Immersive stories with creative and practical linked activities.
- 💻 Computing & Coding – An introduction to coding through child-friendly interactive games and additional computing activities.
Example Activities:
- Creative Crafts & Experiments: Hands-on projects that tie into the theme, like science experiments, nature-inspired art, or maths-based baking.
- Interactive Learning: Engaging games and activities that make learning maths, English, and more enjoyable for young learners.
- Storytime & Exploration: Themed stories that lead into imaginative, creative and educational activities.
- Coding Fun: Learn basic coding concepts through playful, child-friendly activities.
Small Group Setting:
With a maximum of 4 children per group, your child will benefit from plenty of individual attention, all while learning in a relaxed and fun environment.
Science Bees: Science Club
Science Bees is our online science club, designed to spark curiosity and help little minds understand the wonders of the world. Each Science Bees session is a journey into the fascinating world of science, guided by weekly themed topics that unite your little ones for enjoyable and interactive, hands-on activities.
What to Expect:
- Weekly Science Explorations: Join us every week as we delve into captivating themed topics, ensuring a fun, practical, and engaging experience for all our little bees.
- Aligned Activities: Each session is thoughtfully designed to align with the chosen topic, bringing the world of science to life through enjoyable, hands-on activities.
Exploring a Variety of Topics:
In Science Bees, we touch on a range of exciting subjects, including but not limited to:
- Plants: Explore how plants grow, conduct experiments and create, decorate and grow your own grass heads.
- The Human Body: Learn about and label body parts
- The Five Senses: Explore and experiment with the senses through hands-on activities.
- Materials: Scavenger hunts and investigations to understand the properties of materials.
- The Seasons and Change: Witness the beauty of seasons and understand how our perspective changes.
- Healthy diet for our bodies: Making healthy meals and experiments to explore the digestive system.
Science Fun for All Ages: Whether it's planting seeds, exploring the senses, or going on a scavenger hunt; Science Bees provides an inclusive space for all little scientists to learn, discover, and have a blast.
- Camera Choices: Your little bees can choose to engage with their cameras on or off, ensuring a comfortable experience tailored to their individual needs.
Join the Exploration: Science Bees is more than a science club; it's a journey of discovery where we come together, inspire one another, and have fun exploring the wonders of science.
Explorer Bees: Around the World Geography Club
Explorer Bees is our online geography group for young adventurers who love exploring the world from the comfort of their own home!
Our weekly gatherings focus on discovering a different country each week, sparking curiosity and encouraging a sense of global awareness and connection through engaging activities and creative crafts.
What to Expect:
- Weekly Country Explorations: Each week, we gather to learn about a new country through fun activities that highlight its unique culture, geography, and history.
- Sharing is Caring: If comfortable, your little explorers are encouraged to share their discoveries and creations with the group.
Example Activities:
- Country Fact Sheets: Learn interesting facts about each country, including its capital, language, landmarks, and traditions.
- Cultural Crafts and Activities: Engage in activities such as cooking a traditional dish, creating traditional, cultural crafts and art, or participating in a game or tradition from the country.
- Interactive Games: Play fun and educational games related to the geography and culture of the country.
- Virtual Field Trips: Take a virtual tour of famous landmarks and natural wonders of the featured country.
- Storytelling Sessions: Listen to folk tales and legends from the country and explore their cultural significance.
- Traditional Music and Dance: Experience the country's music and learn basic steps of traditional dances.
- Language Fun: Learn basic greetings and common phrases in the country's primary language.
Camera Choices: Your little explorers can choose to engage with their cameras on or off, ensuring a comfortable experience for all.
Join the Adventure:
Explorer Bees is more than just a geography group; it's a supportive community where we get together, inspire one another, and embark on exciting journeys around the world!
Bookworm Bees: Storytime Activity Club
Each week, we gather online to share a story, discussing the plot and characters as we go along. Afterward, we dive into a craft activity inspired by the story of the day.
What to Expect:
- Weekly Stories: Join us as we explore a new tale each week.
- Themed Blocks: Sometimes, we’ll delve into a series by a well-known author, like Julia Donaldson, over multiple sessions.
- Creative Fun: After the story, we’ll jump into a practical activity that brings the story to life.
- Show and Share: If they’re comfortable, your little bees are encouraged to share their creations with the group.
Perfect for Little Ones:
- Creative Learning: Step away from traditional education and let your child dive into a world of stories, art, craft and other fun practical activities.
- Comfortable Participation: Your little bees can choose to have their cameras on or off, ensuring a relaxed experience tailored to their comfort.
Example Activities:
- Book Choice: e.g The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson
- Activity: Create Gruffalo masks and Gruffalo character spoon puppets.
...plus many more activities to enjoy for every new story!
Join the Fun: It’s not just about the activities—Bookworm Bees is a supportive community where we come together, encourage one another, and celebrate the joy of reading!
Crafty Bees: Art and Craft Club
Crafty Bees is not your typical online group tuition; it's all about embracing the joy of getting messy and expressing your artistic side! Our weekly gatherings focus on creating exciting and unique projects while providing a space for creativity and connection.
What to Expect:
- Weekly Creations: Join us as we explore new and exciting art, craft and messy play activities together.
- Sharing is Caring: If comfortable, your little bees are gently encouraged to showcase their creations with the group.
Perfect for Little Ones:
- Unconventional Learning: Move away from traditional education and let your little one dive into the world of art and craft.
- Camera Choices: Your little bees can choose to engage with their cameras on or off, ensuring a comfortable experience tailored to their individual needs.
Example Activities:
- Artistic Masterpiece Explorers: Exploring famous artists and re-creating well-known masterpieces in our own way e.g Kandinsky, Andy Warhol etc...
- Puffy Paints: Unleash creativity with vibrant and textured paintings.
- Dyed Tissue Art: Making colourful creations from tissue paper dye.
- No-Sew Sock Animals: Transforming your unwanted, or odd socks, into adorable creatures.
- Sensory Bottles: Engage the senses with captivating, DIY sensory bottles.
- Bubble Bonanza: Dive into a world of bubbly excitement.
- Fluffy Slime: Get ready for some gooey, sweet, and sensory-filled fun.
...and many more activities to enjoy!
Join the Fun: It's not just about the activities; Crafty Bees is a supportive community where we come together, encourage one another, and celebrate the joy of arts, crafts and messy play.
Let the messy adventures begin!
Green Bees: Gardening Club
Green Bees is our online gardening club for nature-loving, little green fingers, who find joy in growing and creating!
Our weekly gatherings focus on hands-on gardening or garden craft activities, while providing a space for creativity and connection.
What to Expect:
- Weekly green adventures: Each week we gather together and delve into gardening-related activities that spark curiosity and nurture a connection to nature.
- Sharing is Caring: If comfortable, your little bees are encouraged to showcase what they do and share their creations with the group.
Perfect for Little Green Fingers:
- Unconventional Learning: Step away from traditional education and let your little one explore the wonders of the natural world from the comfort of their own home.
- Camera Choices: Your little bees can choose to engage with their cameras on or off, ensuring a comfortable experience for our gardening friends.
Example Activities:
- Growing Herb Gardens: Discover the magic of growing your own herbs.
- Sunflower Planting: Story time and planting sunflowers,observing their majestic growth.
- Arty Plant Pots: Add a touch of personal flair to your plant pots and seed markers.
- Mini-Garden Creations: Let imagination bloom as we create enchanting mini-gardens.
- Cooking with Garden Produce: Explore the delicious journey from garden to plate.
- Nature Scavenger Hunt Art: Unleash creativity by crafting art from treasures found in nature.
- Glorious Compost: Learn the art of composting and witness the magic of organic recycling.
- Bird feeders: Making feeders for our feathered friends.
...and many more activities to enjoy!
Join the Gardening Fun: Green Bees is more than just a gardening club; it's a supportive community where we get together, inspire one another, and enjoy all things gardening!