Name of Organisation (Employer): The Hive
Position being advertised (Job title): Forest School Assistant
Salary (per week, month, year OR negotiable, not applicable): Competitive day rate for the right candidate
Location (where is this job based?): South East London
Job description: The Hive runs holiday day camps during the school holidays throughout the year, as well as school workshops during term time and family experiences during selected weekends.
As we get ready for the summer, we’re looking to recruit a number of outdoor and nature educators for our Spring and Summer 2015 missions. This will involve working with schools, families and children.
Some positions are term-time only. Others are holiday positions.
The role will involve supporting the delivery of Forest School education in the context of our Hive missions with children (holiday camps), families (weekend family experiences) and schools (school workshops). We are looking for people who enjoy education and passing on their knowledge
Person specification : What you’ll be doing
- You’ll support the mission delivery and empower children (and adults) to succeed, drawing on your playfulness, energy, and imagination
- You’ll be happy to use mobile technology as a support to learning and your delivery
- You’ll enjoy learning from a committed team of facilitators
What we’ll need from you
- Some experience of Forest School education
- A high energy and playful outlook with an instinctive understanding of what makes children tick
- A basic level of experience of using tablet and mobile technology
Any other information: The Hive is an exciting new company running Outdoor Missions for children 6-14. The company was set up in 2013 and following a successful first year we are looking to scale up our activities.
As far as we know, The Hive is unique in the UK in bringing together high quality outdoor learning, gameplay and mobile technology. Each mission is story-based and revolves around an outdoors challenge that the children complete by undertaking activities and games, drawn from a range of outdoor disciplines, including bushcraft, orienteering, gardening, geocaching, potion making, foraging, whittling, raft building, bee keeping, nature forensics, water works, animal identification, tracking, map reading, etc.
Mobile technology (iPods) is threaded into the mission games and activities. Mobile activities are wide ranging and can include anything from experiencing AR in games, using bespoke maps for geocaching, reading QR codes to make up soil recipes, shooting an iMovie nature newsflash, following video instructions to build a mini raft, taking selfies to follow a nature hunt, using a range of nature-related apps, creating an outdoor animation film, etc.
Explain how applicants should contact you / apply: Send a CV and short cover letter to caroline@thehive-kids.com
Closing date for applications : 31.03.2015
