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Autumn adventures
We started the week with a bit of inspiration at Sheffield Park gardens. The amazing colours were great and we took a stroll up the the...

Lou Sanders
Jan 1, 20221 min read
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The end of the year
During our last week of sessions this year we had a magical time in the open canopy of the woods and played in the dark. We made time to:...

Lou Sanders
Jan 1, 20221 min read
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Winter wonders
"Why is the sky so dark?" "Because the days are getting shorter and the sun goes down early in the winter" The children were wondering...

Lou Sanders
Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Falling leaves
Forest School strives to foster resilient, confident, independent and creative learners. And it aims to inspire a sense of awe and wonder...

sawpitwoods
Nov 9, 20211 min read
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Shadows and sunsets
This time of the year is known as Samhain. The clocks have changed and brought us bright, low, sharp light this week. We've had day time,...

Lou Sanders
Nov 8, 20211 min read
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Autumn holiday club
We have spent a peaceful but productive two days in the woods. There was lots of fire making, pumpkin soup cooking, bread baking, and...

Lou Sanders
Oct 28, 20211 min read
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Foraging child- led fun in the woods
This week we met a lovely new group of children and got to start to get to know a beautiful patch of National Trust woodland on Crockham...

Lou Sanders
Oct 19, 20212 min read
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Forest School Day!...(and this week in the woods)
Last Friday was the 4th Annual Forest School Day. We spent all week in the woods celebrating this by being out in the woods with 6...

Lou Sanders
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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Conference, reflections and connections
This weekend we spent our time (camping) at the FSA annual conference, which was great! We heard from three really interesting speakers:...

Lou Sanders
Oct 4, 20212 min read
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Child directed Monday Skills
Each and every week, the children are busy, chatty, engaged, sociable, and out there being kids and playing when they come to the woods,...

Lou Sanders
Sep 27, 20212 min read
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Autumn Equinox
This week the morning mist has hung and been slow to rise, as we have reached the Autumn Equinox and the turning of the seasons with the...

Lou Sanders
Sep 21, 20212 min read
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Rainy Tuesday
Cloudy wet skies led to a day of noticing the small things. The drip on the underside of the gate, the shine the rain made on the...

Lou Sanders
Sep 14, 20211 min read
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Foraging, floral fun
We started the week arranging flowers and foliage foraged from the garden, fields and woods. With quiet, creativity comes conversation...

Lou Sanders
Sep 14, 20211 min read
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Good Company Monday
On the day when thousands of children started their first full week back at school, we also had our own first day. For the past year we...

Lou Sanders
Sep 6, 20212 min read
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Summer holiday play
We can't quite believe we have nearly come to the end of our summer holiday woodland play... It has been a fantastic month of freedom,...

Lou Sanders
Aug 18, 20212 min read
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Tuesday Holiday Club
A busy days play. Some of the things that the children got up to were: tapping sticks, games exploring senses with blindfolds,...

Lou Sanders
Aug 17, 20211 min read
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Thursday in the woods
We escaped any rain which was forecast, and had a brilliant day of refining our tool skills in the woods. First by making elder beads and...

Lou Sanders
Aug 5, 20211 min read
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Wednesday creating
After some brilliant games in the trees, today was all about creating with wood. Climbing on it, snapping dead wood, carrying wood,...

Lou Sanders
Aug 4, 20211 min read
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August pottering
Today was a firelighting, charcloth making, towel ripping, stream jumping, blind folded game playing, den making, mud splatting, stick...

Lou Sanders
Aug 3, 20211 min read
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Thursday Play
Today the children: made tree identification tokens drilled holes with palm drills to thread the discs spotted butterflies and counted...

Lou Sanders
Jul 29, 20211 min read
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Tree tending Day
We had a wonderful day tending our sapling trees in our Children's Forest adjacent to Sawpit Woods this February. Together we mulched...
Feb 13, 20242 min read


Winter Gathering
We shared a lovely day, gathered in Sawpit Woods to celebrate the middle of winter, the turning of the light and to learn and connect...
Dec 18, 20232 min read


Seed, song and foraging day 24/10/23
We had a wonderful day walking the land and learning about the trees and their seeds. Gathering in the October sunshine, over the rising...
Nov 1, 20231 min read
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