Programme examples
Nature school with theme “Experience Together”
3 nights (location Kirjais Kursgård in Nagu, trip to small archipelago community and spending a night on an uninhabited island)
Day 1
- Arrival and check in
- Lunch
- Introduction to the Nature School – information on safety, the location and facilities
- Friendship games and cooperation practices, discussion on the results
- Dinner
- Meeting and information
- Orienteering together
- Leisure time for frisbee golf, badminton, visiting village shop etc.
- Evening snack
- Bedtime
Day 2
- Breakfast
- Departure to outer archipelago island Stenskär, where we with a local fisherman pull up fish nets. Walking the island nature trail, getting to know the island’s history and climbing the observation post with an amazing view.
- By boat to the uninhabited island Gråsö, where we enjoy the fresh smoked fish and practice wilderness skills such as making a fire. Swimming in the sea, having a barbeque and raising the tent where we will spend the night.
Day 3
- Making morning porridge using camping cookwear. Time for swimming, fishing etc.
- By boat back to Kirjais
- Lunch
- Investigating the nearby nature and talking about the importance of nature’s diversity. Getting to know some of the species, and looking for edible or otherwise useful plants.
- Dinner
- Gettogether and information
- Sauna and evening snack, talking about the desert island experience
- Bedtime
Day 4
- Breakfast
- Packing and cleaning
- Playful ending of the Nature School, connecting back to what we have experienced
- Lunch
- The trip home begins
The price for this programme in 2019 is 279 € /student, 216 € /adult and includes VAT and accommodation and mentioned meals, but not the trip from home to the camp or back.
Example with Nature School basic programme
A Nature School week can look like this.
Monday
- Starting with ferry from main land
- Arrival and check-in
- Introduction to the Nature School – Getting to know the surrounding nature through games and tasks. Safety and other rules.
- Cooperation games
- Dinner
- Gettogether and info – Each evening we get together for half an hour to get information on the coming programme and answers to any questions.
- Leisure time and evening snack
- Bedtime and silence
Tuesday
- Breakfast
- Pre-historic workshop (time travel, stone age school, archaeologists of the future)
- Lunch
- Wilderness skills: To prepare an excursion
- Dinner
- Setting fish nets
- Sauna
- Evening snack
- Bedtime and silence
Wednesday
- Breakfast
- Taking up the fish nets, handling the fish and learning about the anatomy of fish
- Lunch
- Food from the nature and using camping cookwear
- Dinner
- Theory about bats
- Evening snack
- Bat field trip
- Bedtime and silence
Thursday
- Breakfast
- Marine biology research (investigating the water quality, studying the life in the sea bottom and insects of the beach, collecting for an aquarium)
- Lunch
- Wilderness skills: Orienteering in the nature
- Dinner
- Sauna
- Camp fire, barbeque, bread on sticks
Friday
- Breakfast
- Packing
- Playful ending of the Nature School, connecting back to what we have experienced
- Lunch
- The trip home begins
The price for this example in 2019 is 295 € /student, 225 € /adult and includes VAT, accommodation and the mentioned meals, but not the trips from home to the camp site or back.