Project Description

The Forest School idea is very potent concept
around a theory that whatever children can do
inside they can also do outside. Ecclesall
woods, the ancient woodland within the city
boundary has an old Sawmill site. The site
has exciting new plans for developing a centre
for innovative use of timber and has a number
of small businesses and enterprises already on
the site. At the moment the Forest School site
has outdoor play area and a teepee. They
would like to develop a “structure” to allow for
some additional facilities – to be decided but
most likely an “outside classroom” and the
aim is to build the project.

Saturday 25 October 2008

The comedy of the fish

So Jo mentioned that digging through top soil and hardcore to get to the rewarding layer of clay between 400-500mm down is hardwork. She's not lying. We've completed 8 of the 12 holes, but sadly haven't found and treasure chests, ancient tombs, or more minutes for £30, but instead i've decided to reward your persistant blog checking with some comedy photos from a Friday on site...


Willie and Kyle strip the bark from what will be our column timbers, whilst desperately trying to avoid the intense ray of deadly sunlight from 'Die Another Day'.

Aditi climbs into a finished hole, and promptly halves in height.

Ground littered with hardcore; bricks and stones slow us down, this is the biggest we have found yet. We were very pleased with ourselves.


A plan of what we we're building, quickly labelled on the spot for our meeting with Scott, using charcoal from burnt potatos.

And a little time wasted; a few of the original holes we dug turned out to be marking out more of a trapezium shape. Our bad.
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Anonymous said...

You're a comedy genius tim.

25 October 2008 at 13:32

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