Lovely weather, and we’re still marvelling that it’s light until the end of our session! New energy for creating different sorts of dens,...

Much cooler and quite overcast this afternoon, but there’s was lots of potion making! We have lots of herbs on the plot, and the mint is...

Probably the last of the really warm weather for a while, so at our after school session we did some work on the allotment- weeding,...

Forest school was chillier than the last week has been, but the celandines and wood anemones are out, along with wild garlic. The...

‘What would you like to do first?’ ’Painting!’ Our small group this week were very keen to get out the watercolours! They then made a...

We’re really loving the longer evenings- hard to think that we needed the greenhouse lights on until quite recently. We used some...

We had a visit from a group of students from Derby university, who were interested in alternative settings for education. We used bowsaws...

What a change in the weather- we hope it lasts for a while! Definitely time for outdoors reading and painting, and we did a few gardening...

Forest school sessions haven’t been able to happen much this year, due to the weather! So many storms and high winds- but luckily,...

One of the lovely things about winter after-school sessions is being able to see the stars. We sometimes use a free star chart app to...

Our after school session definitely felt spring-like…not only was it (a bit) warmer, but there was lots of birdsong. We had one indoor...

It was a lovely bright, mild winters day, perfect for our first gathering after Christmas! The streams were high and fast, and sounded...

We had a huge pan of pumpkin soup (using a monster pumpkin given to us from one of the Crow Wood allotment neighbours!), plus hot mulled...

A bit of a chilly day in the woods, and we took the lightweight fire bowl, plus a rucksack with all our essentials, for an adventure walk...

We will carry on with our after school sessions even as the nights are drawing in. We have fab lights in the greenhouse, which makes it a...

They’ve been amazing, not least because they made such lovely, magical leafy archways everywhere, but today we decided the runner beans...

This week’s after school session was so lovely and warm- we thought that autumn had come to stay, but apparently not! Delicious dinner of...

The beginning of September and it’s been so hot! We cooked our first after school tea out in the shade, and moved the seating outside...

Our after school sessions are about to start, but on this last summer session, we tried our first sweet corn, as well as making wooden...

Our thornless brambles aren’t very sweet (although great for crumbles), but the brambles in the hedge, in full sun, are amazing! We tried...