St Johns, Totnes. Saturation Week Part 3

Friday: Final day and absolutely exhausted! We didn't go into another class to observe this morning, instead we got straight into our jobs. With the year 6's we finished off putting wood chippings over the path and around the pond and moved this sticky mud like substance out of sight. After the children went for lunch, another student teacher and I got into waders and cleared the stream.

After all the equipment was put away we went into the whole school assembly where we were presented with certificates for our work over the week.

All in all a fantastic week! I have learnt a lot about taking children into outdoor settings and the importance of doing this as well as the importance of developing mutual respect between child and teacher. I also take away from this placement many ideas to use in my own future practice. I am also going to do some more research into other forest schools like St Johns.