All out again and the sun is shining yet again! A lot of weather about but we seem to be lucky.
Walk to the forest was straight forward and Liam in his wheelchair joined us, suitably dressed and covered up as it does get cold. Today we were focusing on science and arrived at the forest and I got a fire going with a small group while the two groups, the wolves and the bears, were sent to their den areas and were asked to create some sort of wide game that they would share with everybody. The fire pit was uncovered and a fire was lit, with help from cotton wool, Vaseline and a tinder stick.
At a blow of a whistle the class came round the fire to follow on a naming game involving alliteration and adjectives (recap from last session). Round the fire discussions involved, managing risk in the forest, fire rules, taking the temperature, why smoke rises and why it is not as cold as last time.

Science activities were focusing on observation and collection.
….In their trios, with a white board and pen,write down the alphabet and fill in any sight, sound, touch or smell that exist in the forest. A fun scavenger hunt!.
……Science collection display. Trios have to 6 items and place them in their egg box and label ie stcky, smooth, red etc. At the end the collections were put on display and spokespersons were given an opprrtunity to talk about them.

Personal reflection/Evaluation
The fire was a good focal point and after discussing the ground rules the pupils were good at following them. It was a great natural time to go over risk management and talk about the risks that may impact on the pupils. The activities were too similar and could have varied slightly. Pupils slighted as they did not play their made up games so will do next time. Liam has to be warm as can get cold very quickly.