4th March 2025

o Children will be asked to make a circle – children brought to new outdoor forest school seating area
o Rules were recapped – blow whistle once (freeze) and blow whistle twice (come back from wherever you are) and use of the boundary flags and lastly to have fun
o Recap safety procedures and what we can do with certain areas of our forest
o Recap respect – that we only use materials that are already on the forest floor (not pulling from trees)
o Quick recap on the ideas of what each person can be doing throughout the task
o Children are split into different groups – children will be allowed to choose their own groups
o Children will find twigs of different sizes and use them to build a tower – children can design their towers in lots of different ways
o Whistle will be blown at various points to give children reminders and refocus on the activity
o Extension task – children will be allowed to find other types of materials to decorate their towers and turn them into what they like
o Children gathered in and groups explain the various roles they took on and where they collected the sticks from
o Reminder to leave no trace and to tidy our area
o Picture with the had fun/yuck sign – ask children why they felt this way