Today we were at the Jupiter Centre, urban wildlife woodland. We were digging holes in preparation for the Art Dept to design and build nature mosaics to be placed on bollards. Steve, the Ranger, was leading the session and the boys were effectively working for him. He introduced the task and explained all the safety precautions.

The boys were keen to get started, only 2hrs time allocated.

Steve had marked out all the areas for digging. The boys had to split into teams and decide who would – measure, dig, move soil, move turf – and then decide when the hole was finished.

 

Although the weather was wet and chilly, as the boys had appropriate clothing, they cracked on full speed.

 

Team work.

 

Lots of equipment to check, organise and divide up amongst the teams.

 

Any wildlife found was moved to a safer area !