Starting my forest school journey

I was lucky enough to run some forest school sessions with the lovely Emily from Tribe Tooting. Via Furzedown Primary school we offered some after-school taster sessions on a Friday for 6 weeks in the summer term. They were a great success, the children really engaged with it and it was wonderful to see how immersive it can be. They made foraged for and made clay, built shelters, played chasing games, climbed trees, built imaginary villages, made leaf leaf crowns, made a damn and of course got lovely and dirty. One of my biggest challenges from the first week of my course is learning how to tie various knots, lots of practice will be required I think!

My crown

I think you could say I'm really embracing the instructions at the start of my Forest School Practitioner training practical week (Be as childish as possible to get the most out of the training). I made the decision to undertake this training earlier in the year as I wanted a new challenge, to learn something new to offer my children and be inspired to change how I used the outdoors to plan learning experiences. I made this Ivy crown while we were exploring Ham Common woods to find different natural resources and learn how they can be used in forest school activities.