Wild Words

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Location: Bristol, City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Brave Bold Drama
Brave Bold Drama

Ten sound-filled spots in Badock's Wood, Bristol.

All the sounds you will hear were captured during a 12 week forest school project for young people held in Badock's Wood during the winter of 2021.

Wild Words was a partnership between Brave Bold Drama (an award-winning theatre and community arts company), Mud Pie Explorers (a forest school) and Southmead Development Trust.

This project was funded by the Thriving Communities Fund, which aims to improve and increase social prescribing community activities by bringing together place-based partnerships of local voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise projects.

Hide and Seek

Children hid and sought in groups. Seekers shout "1-2-3 Where are you?" and hiders reply "1-2-3 We're over here". Seekers follow the sound.

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Celtic Mound

Children read about the ancient history from the information boards here, and share their own knowledge of Ancient Celts and Ancient Romans.

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Fishing Place

A child reads from the information board about the history of Bowness Pond, and makes an exciting discovery!

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Haunted Path

One dark night we explored this path armed only with head-torches. The children ever since called it 'The Haunted Path'. It's not that scary, honest. Go on, take a step...

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Secret Path

Just to the left of a set of steps, the children found a way uphill that felt less official. They called this 'The Secret Path'. At the top of the hill turn left and head for a fallen pale tree the children called 'The Golden Tree.'

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Old Base Camp

For the first few weeks we spent time here. The children learned how to use tools. They dug, sawed, lit fires and made music. When it rained we strung a tarpaulin over the area. Towards the end you will hear the children enjoying shaking the rainy tarpaulin and seeing the raindrops bounce.

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Boat Launching

The children made boats out of natural materials to sail on the River Trym. They also made paper boats, wrote a word that described the river and set these sail too. The river jumbled the words. we collected them further downstream. The order they arrived became the poem. A child sings a song they learned from school after seeing the boats prompted a discussion about where we had travelled.

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Leafy Crossroad

The children were in the woods in late autumn and winter 2021. The woods were always full of fallen leaves.

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Fire and Mud

This was basecamp for most of the project. The fire was always lit here. It was often very muddy. There was always a rope swing here. Children sat on the logs to eat food cooked on the fire. A child reads a poem they wrote about the experiences here at the end.

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Potions and Witchcraft

This area was the creative, crafting place. One week we shared the witches' spell from Macbeth. This inspired the children to create their own potion from weird and wild imaginative ingredients. Gill from Brave Bold Drama recites the whole spell created collaboratively by the children at the end, as the children asked her to do to this.

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