An interesting thing has happened at Forest School last week, one of the older boys decided that we needed to start putting our FS values into practice. Well this week another boy took on the mantle of telling the rest of the group to ‘shut up and listen’ when I was talking. It’s interesting to see how having some rules to work by is so important to some of the group and how they then want the rest of the group to conform. Previously they would have also been making lots of noise and not listening as well.
While I got the fire going and a small group of boys put hot chocolate powder into cups, the rest of the group went off working on their dens. With the new materials we got last week there is a new vigour in den building and there appears no end to this activity being the favourite at FS.
After we had finished and had packed the snack things away a few of the children started to make wood cookie Christmas decorations. They got to use a new tool called a palm drill, which is basically a wooden handle with a drill bit stuck into it, and most gave it a good go at drilling a hole. Of course they also had to cut the wood with a bow saw using a sawhorse. The children who have been to FS at the Courts over the last term are getting quite good with the saw and their confidence when using it has really grown.
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