As we arrived at forest school we were confronted with a huge pile of chippings and a construction vehicle. The children wondered what might be happening. We spotted someone wearing a hi visibility jacket and asked him if he knew. He explained that his job that day was to renew some of our forest school paths. Another man jumped on the machine and drove into forest school giving us a little ‘toot toot’ as he left. He was quite fast and we couldn’t keep up so we looked at the tyre marks the machine had made. Suddenly we spotted something fly beside us. It was small, brown and red. You guessed it. It was Steve! He must have heard us and came out of our site to see us. He happily sat on the top of trolley as we headed into our site.

We talked about what we wanted to do that day and decided we should go on an ADVENTURE! We left our equipment on our site and headed up the huge mountain. It was really hard work but we persevered. Eventually we reached the top. We listened to the forest around us. It was quite loud with lots of bird song. Steve followed and sat with us. We moved on as we attempted to find another route to our site. One of the children thought we could move down the far side of the mountain. It started to get rather swampy but we managed to navigate our way to the wooden bridge which a previous group of children had made. With a little help, we all managed to cross safely.

After lunch we explored our site. As usual Steve watched on as the children investigated the fallen tree and the den. Our den is now a chip shop and a house offering a plethora of imaginative opportunities.

Can you spot Steve?