Our Ethos

Our Ethos

With over 20 years of teaching experience, working with children across a huge range of abilities, including a variety of SEND, we are well equipped to meet the needs of your child. We are passionate about creative learning and the positive impact it has on our children in today’s busy and pressurised world.

Our ethos is based on the principles of ‘PACE’ – Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity and Empathy (Daniel Hughs Ph.D) with group learning designed for children aged from 4 to 14, split into age-appropriate sessions. Learning is tailored for all abilities including children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).

Our Group Learning Sessions are led by experienced and highly qualified teachers, including Ryan Hill our Lead Teacher and Creative Learning Consultant. Prior to founding Pumpkin Pie Creative Learning, Ryan won ‘Teacher of the Year in Primary School’ for the whole of the Southwest Region at the prestigious Pearson National Teaching Awards.

Ryan Hill is also a Thrive Licensed Practitioner and offers one-to-one Thrive Assessments and specialist one-to-one tutoring for the emotional development of your child.

The Pumpkin Pie mission is to make learning fun, happy and memorable for your child.

Our sessions have been uniquely designed to teach the fundamentals of education through the context of the natural world, the creative arts, and playful experiences.

Pumpkin Pie Creative Learning is all about…

‘Play’ with purpose
Opening the door to outside learning
Self-expression and development through creative arts
Visual, aural, oral and kinaesthetic approaches

The Pumpkin Pie Creative Learning team has many eclectic passions and interests, including travelling the world, keeping and looking after a range of animals, playing various musical instruments, leading choirs and music groups, foraging for natural foods, to name but a few, which feed into our work and enhance the experiences that we have to offer.

Through our travels across the world including Peru; The Amazon Rainforest; North America; South, Central and North Africa; Cambodia; Roman sites across the Mediterranean; South Pacific Islands and Australia, we have gathered a wealth of knowledge, artefacts, photographs, first hand footage, contacts, and exciting stories to tell of living with indigenous tribes and encountering unique, life-changing events, which we are able to use to bring learning alive in subjects across the curriculum.

The Pumpkin Pie mission is to make learning fun, happy and memorable for your child.

Pumpkin Pie Creative Learning is all about…

Group Learning
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Online Learning
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One-to-One
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