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Autumn holiday club
We have spent a peaceful but productive two days in the woods. There was lots of fire making, pumpkin soup cooking, bread baking, and...
Lou Sanders
Oct 28, 20211 min read
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Blustery Woodland Wednesday
The gusts of wind circled round the tree tops today, but we were sheltered beneath the canopy and only felt a few spots of drizzle and...
Lou Sanders
Jul 28, 20211 min read
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July days
With sunshine on their backs, the children started their Monday afternoon by hiding in the meadows. The grass has grown so tall, that...
Lou Sanders
Jul 6, 20212 min read
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Tweeting Tuesday
We started the day with birds, birds, and birds. Listening, observing and creating. The children made and flew birds around the woods in...
Lou Sanders
Apr 21, 20211 min read
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Marvellous Monday
The sun shone and we had a marvellous Monday afternoon! It was all birds, blossom and bluebells. We tried to hear and spot as many birds...
Lou Sanders
Apr 19, 20211 min read
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Sunny Days
With the blackthorn blossom emerging and the willow blooming in the trees, today we welcomed back our group of parents and children. The...
Lou Sanders
Mar 31, 20212 min read
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Tuesday tales
We took an alternative route to the woods today, to avoid some of the mud. The children told tales and shared memories of walks and...
Lou Sanders
Mar 17, 20211 min read
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Woodland Work
During lockdown we spent some of our time applying for funding towards installing running water to the woodland site and towards the cost...
Lou Sanders
Aug 24, 20202 min read
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Tuesday in the woods
The sun shone, the rain fell, the blackberries were collected and squished and painted with and poured, the trees were climbed and swung...
Lou Sanders
Aug 18, 20201 min read
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Tuesday
Today was one of those trolley pulling, wood collecting, tree climbing, dust kicking, wheat field exploring, gate climbing, lamb cooing,...
Lou Sanders
Aug 4, 20201 min read
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Wednesday woodland wonders
The black berry are out! They tasted, sweet, sharp and delicious. They made great paint. As did the charcoal, which we used so much of,...
Lou Sanders
Jul 29, 20201 min read
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Monday play
With a brilliant bunch of children we had the most fantastic time. Rain sheltering, coat zipping, hand washing, wood collecting, steel...
Lou Sanders
Jul 27, 20201 min read
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Flutterbies
This year the garden has been rather full of bees, bumbles, hoverflies, wasps, moths and butterflies fluttering by. You can join in with...
Lou Sanders
Jul 24, 20201 min read
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Tree tending Day
We had a wonderful day tending our sapling trees in our Children's Forest adjacent to Sawpit Woods this February. Together we mulched...
Feb 13, 20242 min read


Winter Gathering
We shared a lovely day, gathered in Sawpit Woods to celebrate the middle of winter, the turning of the light and to learn and connect...
Dec 18, 20232 min read


Seed, song and foraging day 24/10/23
We had a wonderful day walking the land and learning about the trees and their seeds. Gathering in the October sunshine, over the rising...
Nov 1, 20231 min read
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