This week the children had great fun at forest school. We set up our camp quickly this week so we could make the most of our time in the forest. The children made a plan of the day and decided their morning would be spent on building dens, a tree house and nests for the birds and the afternoon would be spent going on an adventure!

We got to work collecting all different sized branches and sticks to add to our den. The den became bigger and bigger as the branches were added. Nye and Kai enjoyed sitting inside and overseeing work before challenging themselves to climb to the top. After lunch, it was adventure time! We wanted to cross the swamp and explore a part of the woodland we had never visited before but we wondered how we could get past the swamp monsters and swamp crocodiles safely. The children thought a bridge was a great idea and so work began on the best swamp bridge the world has ever seen! Working together the children collected more branches and laid them out across the swamp. Once we had enough we tested out the bridge and to our amazement it worked! We all crossed safely onto the other side ready for an adventure. The ground was surprisingly hard but this helped us negotiate the huge mountain we needed to scale. We climbed all the way to the top where we discovered some fallen trees. These were perfect to explore and use our imagination. They soon became pirate ships and we all climbed on. “Look out there’s a huge wave coming”, pointed out one of the children. We all held on tightly to the ships rigging. We were then met by another wave and another and another! We were so lucky to be such amazing pirates! Rubin spotted a tree higher up the hill and along with Sky, they pulled themselves up onto it. They were so high that they could see all of our forest school.

It was time to head back to camp but which way should we go? Luckily Alfie knew the way and guided us back to our camp and then the minibus safely. It was time for these pirates to head back to nursery for a yummy dinner.