This week saw a brand new group of children visiting forest school and wow were they excited! We began by talking about what we may see and this group were excited to see minibeasts and squirrels and hopefully a bear or a rhino. Sadly we didn’t spot any bears or rhinos but we did see lots of minibeasts from bees to woodlouse, spiders to snails, they were all there!

Our day was spent exploring our site. The children used their observational skills to spot slugs, snails, strangely shaped stones and sticks. There was den building galore as we added to the previous groups den work where we created a doctor’s surgery. We talked about how to stay safe on our site and why we all stay together. At the end of the day, no one was ready to leave. We had enjoyed our forest school picnic and wanted to continue with our exploration. We talked about what we would like to do next week and one of the children decided he is going to climb to the top of the mountain at the back of our site. Watch this space! We might just do that!