LIME
A great challenge was set for the children in the forest this week! The foresteers had to help with the thousands of sweet chestnut burr's littered everywhere. The group set about at quite a pace and were filling buckets and buckets with the chop stick method. Then some scoopers were found and a new technique was born! Elsewhere, 2 great bonfires were built ready for fireworks night and several giant mushrooms were found!
WILLOW
The oldest members of the school were also hellbent on making sure everything was tidied too. They were worried that the spikes from the sweet chestnut burrs might hurt some of the younger children, so they began scooping them up into piles immediately. They then cracked them open and investigated the contents (which they call 'Percy Piggies') and started trading them. A conker cleaning service was also now available. For no fee at all, you could bring your conker to the water butt and they'd be returned shiny and new!
EYFS
With bonfire night and Diwali fresh in the Ash and Saplings minds, fireworks and big log piles were top of their priority list! They worked brilliantly in little teams to carry logs and sticks to one of 2 log piles and they were built bigger and bigger. After a while, it became apparent that they were actually just moving the same logs between both piles, but they didn't seem to realise! They also had lots of fun in the digging zone and swinging in the tree.
BEECH
Beech class were very excited by the log piles too and came to the very difficult decision that, even though it looked fun to climb, they probably shouldn't not do any climbing! They did climb the trees though and had lots of fun pretending to be monkeys and tigers. A great Chinese restaurant was made too with some fortune cookies being shared out. The digging zone was also busy and some mushy mud was being spread everywhere!
MAPLE
The rain couldn't hold off any longer which meant that the trees weren't safe to climb but that didn't ruin the forest for Maple class. They founded some restaurants and had a great bonfire night too, building on the very tall log pile. Some old ladies walked around with sticks and spoke about the good old days before cameras and reminisced about how fun the big bang was!! The blue barrels acted as a shelter for some and they wobbled around in them as if they were snail shells.