This Tuesday will be a full crew day for XP16 students. All academic sessions have been cancelled, however students are expected to attend and take part in the day’s crew sessions so please let me know asap if there are any issues with this.
The day will start at 9.15am and finish at 3.15pm.
Most of the day will be spent outside so please make sure you have warm appropriate clothing and footwear. Please bring a change of shoes for wearing in doors.
Kit List:
Warm layers
Warm hat & gloves
Waterproof coat and trousers
Appropriate footwear
Shoes for indoors
(If you have difficulty getting any of the above let me know by the end of the day on Monday).
I have recently become a Forest School Practitioner and am currently working on bringing aspects of Forest school into XP Trust’s Outdoor expeditions programme.
The very first shaping up project is to create our Fire Circle. The fire circle (with or without a lit fire) is another circular area for crews to come together to share experience and build community.
I would like to create this area with my XP16 crew.
The activities the students will be involved in during the day will will help us grow as a crew through working as a team, communication, organisation and planning together, Students will also learn some basic forest skills, such as creating fire using flint and steel along with fire safety. Students will need to grapple and be resilient in order to succeed at some of these tasks.
The plan is to spend the morning creating and building XP & XP East’s very first fire circle. After lunch we will learn how to create fire using flint and steel and how to build & maintain a fire so we can have hot drinks and toast marshmallows to which we will invite some of your teaching staff to join us.
At the end of the day we will degunge, debrief the day and put out our fire as a crew, finishing for 3.15pm.
If for any reason you are unable to attend the whole day please let me know asap.
I’m really looking forward to spending this time with you all. Remember to have waterproofs and plenty of warm clothing!
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Cheers
Kate