This week the children had an amazing day at forest school. We began our day in a different part of the woods which the children have never visited before. We found a small tunnel in the ground and a discussion ensued about why it was there and who might live inside it. The children conducted a thorough investigation and decided that it was a tunnel full of little mice but they were too scared to come and see us.

As we walked further down the path, we discovered a steep, hilly area which had a large ditch in front of it. The ditch provided a wonderful opportunity for some physical challenge. How would we cross? Was it possible? Was it safe? The children began hypothesising about how they could do it and eventually all twelve children and three grownups had crossed the ditch using various means. Then it was scaling the hill time where we chatted about the beautiful silver birch trees.

As we headed deeper into the forest, we discovered we needed to navigate a rather muddy, steep hill. It looked quite slippy and we wondered how we were going to get down safely. We carefully supported one another as we walked down the hill, arms outstretched and knees bent. We then balanced ourselves as we crossed the bridge and we were back into our forest school.