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  • 26/01/24

    Finding Fun in Failure

    We have a resident robin! He heralds our arrival every week, and he was the Woodland Welcome for many of Sweet Chestnut Group this week. In fact, the bird song all around Deggs Wood was particularly vivid this week ahead of the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch.  https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-h...
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  • 19/01/24

    Coconut Rice & Sun Catching Ice

    Blue skies, a twinkling hoar frost wrapping its feathery fingers over every surface, icy puddles and birdsong were this week's woodland welcomes. As we arrived at Sweet Chestnut camp, a thin furl of smoke wound its way skyward. Catkin had got the fire off to a roaring start in preparation for...
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  • 12/01/24

    Tree Top Transformations

    Woodland welcomes this week included: Sparkling frost, crunchy leaves, a little robin in the play area, my frosty breath. There were some eagle eyed nature spotters this week. They managed to find a very tiny Jelly Ear Fungi and remembered that it was most likely growing on Elder wood...
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  • 08/12/23

    A Game of Camouflage & Christmas Crafts

    Our last session with Rowan Group before they return with their little buddies in the Summer. We started with a highly competitive game of Camouflage followed by a session of Christmas crafts including decorative wintery trees and wreaths.  It has been such fun learning and growing with Rowa...
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  • 01/12/23

    Toffee Crab Apples - Foxglove's Favourite!

    On the menu today: Toffee Crab Apples & Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire  The blackbirds and pigeons have made light work of my crab apple tree's crop this year. Fortunately a local farmer had kindly donated a big bag or crab apples for one of my favourite winter treats to make aro...
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  • 24/11/23

    A Fascinating & Fun Guy!

    We were very lucky to be visited by the incredibly knowledgable and engaging Michael White. He is a wild food and self sufficiency expert and came to talk to us, in particular, about the marvellous world of mushrooms! We started with a game of delicious or deadly where we had to vote which p...
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  • 17/11/23

    Coming out of their shells

    This week we learnt about the ancient art of pewter casting and each child had the opportunity to create a mould, melt the pewter over the campfire in the long spoon called the crucible and pour the molten metal into their mould to create a pewter shell. It took concentration, patience and accuracy...
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  • 10/11/23

    Village of Gold & Conker Weaving

    Back in the woods and excited to reinstate their village that is 3 years in the making! The wood was a hive of activity as businesses got up and running, trading routes were established and laws involving currency and conduct were discussed.  Those that needed to take a little time...
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  • 16/10/23

    Rain (& wind) did NOT halt play

    Some say that the number 13 is an unlucky number and when we first looked at today's weather forecast. We felt a little bit unlucky. Having talked about why it wasn't safe to go to the woods in high winds. We then talked about the job of a meteorologist and found out that it contains 13 lett...
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  • 06/10/23

    The Jewel Game

    It is my hope that, by the end of Year 1, the children will be able to identify at least five or more trees in Deggs Wood. Each week, the trees have been woven into the narrative of our sessions: saying hello to the big oak tree and his relatives on the way to the woods; tying the hammock to th...
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  • 29/09/23

    Leaf Prints

    The children were introduced to the Japanese art of Hapa Zome (leaf dye in Japanese) in order to make bunting for our very smart new Forest School kitchen area. They also made wax rubbings of leaves. Inspired by one of the children's really effective use of black wax crayons on sweet chestnut le...
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  • 22/09/23

    Pancakes, Play & Pot of Bubblin' Jam!

    Armed with pots of hand-picked blackberries the Speckled Woods headed off to pick some apples from the school orchard for our Forest School jam. As we headed through the fields the children were keen to see if the oak apple was still there from last week...it was. We thought that the acorns wer...
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