Trips & Workshops
Final forest school for Aggie – July 2024
Today was Aggie’s final forest school session after four wonderful years there. In September, she starts a new online course on Friday afternoons which she decided she really wanted to do; that unfortunately means she can no longer go to forest school. She was given a lovely send off which included a beautiful photobook showing ... Read more
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More campfire cooking – 2023 recipes
The girls continued making some seriously good food around the campfire in 2023. The younger children in the sessions were always keen to come and help “the big girls” so it was often a real team effort to get everything ready. Some weeks, in the winter time, the main challenge was to get the fire ... Read more
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Campfire cooking at forest school
We love cooking at forest school. Now the girls are older and less inclined to make dens and play imaginary games in the trees, we’ve turned to a greater focus on skills around the fire. In autumn term, the girls and their friends were challenged with making some dishes for everyone to enjoy and they ... Read more
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Making butter round the campfire
We looked at our forest leader Polly very cynically when she said we were going to make some butter round the campfire. But make some butter we did indeed do! We poured a carton of double cream in a Tupperware container (half a carton will do) and added in six glass marbles. After making sure ... Read more
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Farm visit to see lambs
This week’s forest school session was a little different. We went to a sheep farm to meet this year’s new additions and to learn about what farmers need to do over the lambing season. Sally, the owner of Higher Plainsteads Farm, was our host and she was great with the children. She offers free farm ... Read more
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Forest School | Natural World | Trips | UK Day trips - near Manchester
Moss planting with The National Trust
We really enjoyed our day of rhododendron destroying last month and wanted to help again, and so this time we went moss planting instead. Thankfully the weather was a lot better this time! We joined a group of another 15 or so volunteers and headed off into the moors above Marsden. Our challenge was to ... Read more
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Careers, life skills and volunteering | Forest School | Natural World
Wildcraft – Minecraft in real life!
The girls and their friends went on a day in Delamere Forest put on by Forest Explorers with the theme of Minecraft. It was run by Ranger Pete who we did the Stone Age Day with and a navigation course. Children over 8 didn’t need to be accompanied by an adult so I spent a ... Read more
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RFS Junior Forester Award
This term at forest school, the girls and their friends have been working towards the RFS Junior Forester Award. I found out about this award on Facebook (I can’t remember exactly where) and suggested to the girls’ forest school leader that they could do it in their sessions. A few months later, the girls have ... Read more
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Down in the woods with Stone Age Pete
Since we’ve been looking at the Stone Age ready for our trip to Stonehenge, I was on the hunt for any interactive Stone Age days we could take part in. Forest Explorers at Delamere Forest very helpfully had several such sessions and so we went to spend the day with Stone Age Pete. Pete ran ... Read more
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First aid in the forest
The girls have spent a couple of weeks at forest school learning about first aid. They’ve had such a laugh whilst learning some really important life skills.
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