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.

Wednesday 29 October 2008

S**T the bed?!?!

After a painful 7am start this morning we were greeted by an annoying alarm and plenty of frost on site.
Once we finished admiring the frost on the ground we were ready to start work. Kyle and Tim set about helping Tom cut the base of the structural columns into square sections for fixing into ground support.

Whilst that was going on, other members of the team were busy laying out the sleepers which would form the base of our outdoor classroom. Due to the sloping nature of the site, there was a lot of trench digging, moving and re-digging and moving to get the sleepers level.

Olly and Abbie make sure the sleepers are level

Whilst the girls are busy with labour intensive work, Kyle is getting friendly with his local tree....
Kyle: "this one is my friend..."

With such an early morning start, we all begin to feel hungry pretty soon and decide to stop for lunch. Whilst having our lunch who comes to accompany us, why its only our mascot robin!

Robin our friendly mascot

After lunch, the afternoon was a pretty laid back affair, with some of the highlights shown below:

Olly sports her latest bikini design
Abbie and Aditi make tea...again
...and play "see who can balance longest on the sleepers"...Abbie obviously lost :p

but the best game of all was.......

>>>>>>>> look at the next post

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