Year 5 Forest School

This week at forest school the children mixed up dough to make camp fire bread (dampers).  They lit a fire and carefully baked the bread. Finally they used their hand carved willow knives to cut, butter and spread jam on the delicious hot dampers.

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Lots of games and team work and humour out in the spring green woods. We even found a special plant which featured on the first of the recent BBC David Attenborough Wild Isles programme. Lords and ladies a plant which traps little flies overnight in a secret chamber where it covers them with pollen until the morning when it sets them free.

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