Wednesday Campfire Night

Last Wednesday for the second last boarders' activity before half-term, the children travelled up to the school's Forest School. Situated in front of the outdoor classroom halfway up the path, all the junior boarders (from Year 3 to Year 6) sat on logs around an campfire ready for a night of music, hot chocolate, and marshmallows.

Myself, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Toomey, and Miss Martin prepared approximately 60 marshmallow-filled hot chocolates for the kids as well as 60 S'mores which had to be cooked over the fire. Whilst this preparation was going on, the boarders had a couple minutes of free play in the forest - tag and pirates seemed to be the most popular games.

Next, the talented Mr Opey and Mr Emsley bought their guitars and also a harmonica up to the fire circle for sing-a-long's with some classic musical numbers such as 'We will rock you' by Queen, 'Wonderwall' by Oasis, and even a couple of Disney's 'Frozen' songs! Whilst there was some beautiful singing heard amongst the crowd, it seemed that the lyrics of the songs were mostly yelled at the top of their lungs (mainly by the Year 6's) - but entertaining nonetheless. Luckily, all the kids were provided with the words to each song so everyone was able to join in.

It was such a lovely warm night in the beautiful setting of Forest School - all of the garlic plants have now bloomed with little white flowers and the forest floor is almost completely covered in them!
Overall it was an extremely enjoyable night which we will hopefully be able to do again in the next half-term :)