A new play ranger is needed to help support children’s outside play at The Mount on Friday afternoons.
Shared Earth Learning (SEL), a local co-operative that offers forest school sessions for children who struggle in mainstream education, has been providing supervised play for local children for the past eight years, but they have had to end the initiative due to a lack of recruits.
Since 2015, SEL has been providing a range of activities, such as swing-ball and arts and crafts, and serving fruit snacks, drinks and play on Fridays after school on the green in front of Christchurch CoE First School, or if the weather is bad, board and card games in the hut at the community gardens.
Co-director of SEL Alex Hart said, “We’ve been unable to recruit enough people to keep this wonderful initiative going and it has been a tough decision, but we have to hold up our hands and say: we can’t do this anymore.
“The SEL team truly hope that with us moving on, another organisation can take on this role which, as anyone who has ever helped run a two-hour session can attest, is truly rewarding, fun and gives total job satisfaction.”
Anyone interested in taking on this opportunity to give something to SEL’s community of children is advised to take a look at Scotland’s Play Ranger Toolkit and get in touch with Friends of the Mount, Marston and Keyford (the MCA) at: office@mcafrome.org.uk
