Create Holiday Club @ OMS

“Create is our take on the traditional school holiday club. Create is staffed by many of our Montessori teachers, Early years teachers and subject teachers for the older children. So with the fun comes a caring and professional emphasis. We offer great facilities at Forest Farm including the giant sports barn, music studio and indoor performance space, playgrounds and our beautiful wild coppice wood.”

“Our Holiday Club is a beautiful rural provision on the perimeter of Oxford; open to all ages from 3 to 11 years . It is open from 8.30am until 4.30pm Monday to Friday through the school holidays.

We plan a variety of engaging, indoor and outdoor activities to make sure each day is enjoyable and inspiring; exploring our vast spaces.

Many children return to Create again and again and friendships often blossom.

Staff are carefully selected to ensure a high standard provision focused on keeping children safe and happy.

Our new Create leader, Gemma, has worked in early years for over a decade and is fully qualified in Early Years education. When Gemma is not leading Create Holiday Club she is the deputy supervisor at our Forest Farm Montessori Nursery. Gemma loves music and exploring the great outdoors and in her spare time likes to read and ramble. She will bring her enthusiasm for all these activities to Create Holiday Club!”

“To keep the children inspired, we create a whole range of activities, based on the environment that surrounds us. These may focus on the beauty of nature, conservation/sustainability projects, survival skills, exercise or small/large scale construction. Within these activities, children can’t help but learn, get fresh air but most importantly- have fun. It is the perfect way to get your children outside and into the fresh air, to encourage health, well-being and friendship.

Being a Montessori School, we apply some of this pedagogy within the Holiday Club. We encourage independence, we work holistically and we teach children how to respect each other.


WR Sports-
A local company who deliver coaching, sports and games sessions for children in Oxfordshire. The trained staff and coaches are passionate about their sports. They encourage participation, healthy lifestyles and encourage children to get moving.

Coppice creation club with Emma -
Emma comes from a textiles and floristry background, and as well as working for a school photographer and being a busy mum, she is training to be an L2 Forest School Practitioner. She currently volunteers at Forest Farm, joining us in the coppice for Monday forest school sessions. She has a passion for crafts, nature, adventures and all things magical. Join her to enjoy our fabulous coppice and get creative with nature.

Music Workshop with Becki -
Becki is a professional musician and music director, who works with theatre companies and choirs in both Oxfordshire and London. She is the Music and Drama teacher at Forest Farm, and also teaches a variety of instruments as well as singing. She runs music workshops to promote enjoyment of music, looking at singing, song-writing, composing and playing.

You can find more information about her projects through her social media https://www.facebook.com/beckireedmusic/”

“Create is your child’s arena. It’s one of few spaces left dedicated to children. We hope it’s the perfect alternative to spending too much time on video games or screen time. Here children play for real. Create is a great way to meet new friends and learn a range of new games and skills”

“You have all been so supportive since we’ve started, so thank you. You really don’t know just how much of a difference it makes to us all to see ***** come home feeling so happy, so thank you.”

“First of all I would like to say that I really appreciate this camp as this is the first camp (or school days) that I*** didn’t say even once that he doesn’t want to go. It seems like the staff are doing very good work to make the kids feel at home, happy and confident and this is the most important thing for me, so thank you :) ”

“They had such a great time last week which is a testament to how welcome and easy you have made it for the children (and parents!). They are looking forward to being back on Tuesday.”

“S**** is really enjoying her days there, so will be really happy to have another couple coming up. It’s a big relief to me to know that she’s going somewhere so lovely, and will be looked after really well.”

“Just to let you know D**** is far less impressed with the current camp [after attending Forest Farm].
He says that the new camp is ‘SOOOO structured’ : ))))))) And apparently ‘free play’ means having to bounce a ball in the corner on your own.
He said ‘’ At Forest Farm you can do ANYTHING you like... well, no swearing and blowing the place up with atomic bombs. ..but apart from thaaaat…’’
Thank you for always sending the kids back with starry eyes and big smiles on their faces.”

“A quick note before time passes by.  Thank you so much for a wonderful Summer at Create.  H**** had an amazing time, he loved the Sports week and left the science week truly inspired.  Please pass on my thanks to the others. I have recently moved jobs from Oxford to Banbury so the travelling is now a bit of a struggle but H**** won’t entertain the idea of going  anywhere else – just so nice to find somewhere he is happy and actually asks to go in the holidays. So many thanks again for being so wonderful and making the school holidays a source of enrichment rather than boredom. See you in half term with his younger brother, as well.”

““Our children had real fun and came home happy. The range of activities was very good, from cooking to holding snails and butterflies, going on spider hunts taking turns on the trampoline, to being part of other people’s birthdays . it was just the right mix of things and seeing the bigger children was really good for them. Really great, thanks.””

“As soon as I got in the car J*** said “Daddy, I love Holiday Club, its so much fun here.” Bless him.”