Why did we go down to the woods today?
by Lily H, 1 July, 2016, 3 comments
Recently we were given the opportunity to support a group of young men out into the woods over a period of ten weeks. They were a group that had been handpicked because they were finding the traditional school environment challenging.
We were given permission to use a mixed woodland site and allowed to carry out small amounts of maintenance, which the group really enjoyed especially when felling a tree, checking the squirrel traps and using pruning saws and loppers.
But “Why head out into the same woods for ten weeks?” surely we could have taught the use of this equipment in one day. Read more...
