You could tell that it’s the end of term by the hyper group we started with today. After much excitement from egg rolling in the afternoon it took a little time for everyone to calm down. We started with the animal name game as we had two visitors, mums of two of the boys had managed to get an afternoon in the sun off and wanted to come and see what FS was all about. We collected fire wood for the last time for a while today as next term the group have decided to have squash instead of hot chocolate as the weather gets warmer and they were reminded that a sun hat would be a very good idea to keep the rain off. The three eldest boys build the fire and then lit a corner each with the fire steels, ready to cook pizza wraps for everyone. The hot chocolate was made extra special with mini marshmallows and the feast was finished with a biscuit.
The children had decided that we were going to play hide and seek and then after the feast, play on the slack line and rope swings. One of the mums was impressed when two of the boys who had not been caught answered to ‘123 where are you’ straight away. A lot of what we do at FS is standing back and letting the child get on with it. A good example came at the end of the session a small group had started working on a circus routine last week on the slack line and today they performed their show using the line in lots of different ways. This creativity could so easily been crushed by me saying you just balance and walk along the line from one tree to the other but they took it to a completely different level working as a team, with individuals working out what they could do on the line and then getting the whole FS together to watch their impromptu show.
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