I’ve been reflecting on what we do

I was talking to some children today and they were telling me about their reading. One of the children told me they were just on level 6. I explained that it wasn’t ‘just’, if they were trying their best.  This made me think a lot about what we do in Forest School. Quite often, perhaps most sessions we might have a task such as building dens, creating a pirate ship, tying different knots and lots more. More often than not we do have an end product at the end of the session, and usually I am blown away with what the children create. What I am more blown away with and what I look out for is how the groups have got to that final product, how they persevered how they have collaborated and shared ideas. How they manage to solve problems and lots more.  The process is more important than the product, it is these things that build confidence and resilience and help us to become life long learners