Rooted in Unity

No one wanted the last @UnityBlackpool #forestschool session to end, especially when we had 'smores'!

Super chilled day @UnityBlackpool #forestschool. Lots of empathy shown today for each other and nature 🥰 🐌

Today at cooking we made fudge, delicious treat! @UnityBlackpool

Super hot day on Monday @UnityBlackpool forest school but they still made a fire and sat quietly around for 30 minutes for their bread to cook! So many skills put into this from the fire, to preparing sticks, making dough and cooking it! Delicious with Nutella.

Wonderful session today @UnityBlackpool #forestschool making charcoal pencils on the fire, drawing, making assault courses and playing in the water! Lovely hearing how they are using their coping tools outside of the sessions too. 🍃

Working together really well to get the fire going for the charcoal 🔥

We had a mix of things on the go last night utilising all of the chicken thighs. They made a broth which they used in the bounty curry instead of a stock cube (and drank the rest!) Crispy chicken skin snacks and homemade flat breads with no input from me! #proud @UnityBlackpool

So wonderful to be back at forest school with @UnityBlackpool after 2 bank holidays. Today the students really bloomed, showing teamwork, confidence and lots of resilience.

Great start with the new @UnityBlackpool students doing forest school this week, getting stuck in with fire making, whittling and making herbal teas 🍃

Just like that @UnityBlackpool KS3 students have come to the end of their #forestschool journey as they move up into KS4. Ending on a team game of capture the flag. Planning, rule making, resilience and laughter.. a far cry from where they were in Sept #proud #thisisap

So today the students made bread and we cooked it over the fire before smothering it in garlic butter! 15 minutes of wonderful calm and concentration whilst they cooked it to perfection! Delicious 💚

This week has been all about foraging and food prep. Everyone is loving the current glut of raspberries and it has been wonderful watching them discover the new fruits as well as sharing with each other. #forestschool

Such a lovely feeling getting the @UnityBlackpool boys back together after our trip to @JamiesFarm, cooking a fabulous casserole and sitting down to eat together. Heart warming to hear them checking in and giving shout outs to each other 💚 #legacy #thisisap #KindnessMatters

We also had the pleasure of @UnityBlackpool AP4 today where they learned a little about foraging, cooked elderflower pancakes on the fire and made foraged teas. #DukeofEdinburgh #forestschool #thisisap #ASD

A very busy but relaxed day @UnityBlackpool today. AP3 cared for their vegetables, challenged each other on the slack line, made elderflower cordial and chopped lots of firewood. #forestschool #thisisap

They were amazing and loved applying skills they have learnt at #forestschool 💚 we have so many ideas to bring back from Jamie's Farm to help enrich our forest school experience 🌱

This week @UnityBlackpool #forestschool have learnt about (queen) bees and made crowns for the #Jubilee #queen

I had the pleasure of @UnityBlackpool's KS4 #DukeofEdinburgh group yesterday. They prepared, lit and maintained their own mini fires. They even managed to toast a marshmallow! Excellent resilience and skills shown by the group 💚 #thisisap

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