The woodland welcomed us back with gentle rain, lots of mud and some fallen tree friends. Each group does things differently – diversity in action We put up tarps, built dens, greeted grandmother tree, learned about some plants, played games, acted out memories from previous …

We can forget or just not realise how important outdoor play is in childhood (and beyond). This page from the Forest Fridays book is here to remind us. The full book is available on https://www.dspns.ie/scaip/. This week, as always, the children had lots of ideas …

4th class arrived late to the Forest but for a very good reason – celebrating 50 years since the founding meeting of DSP! So we went straight to our base camp and got down to the serious business of exploring and playing, building and creating, …