Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Forest school diary

Children enjoyed the first signs of spring on their latest trip to the woods, explains Martin Pace, director, Reflections Nursery & Forest School, Worthing, West Sussex.

On arriving at the forest, the children immediately noticed that the woodland was changing.

Kate: 'The leaves are starting to pop back on!'

Evie R: 'The grass is all new as well.'

On the way to our base in the forest we found the first bluebell and all the children stopped to have a look.

Tadiwa: 'It's a bit purple.'

Kate came up with a new name for bluebells. 'Let's call them forest school purple bluebells!'

Later in the day Poppy and Evie L found another bluebell near the first one that we'd noticed.

Poppy: 'Wow! Two bluebells.'

We asked the children why the bluebells were blooming in just one part of the forest. Tadiwa had a theory: 'The sun? Like the sun grows all sorts of flowers.'

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