Really pleased to be back at the school site today. BEES helped to develop the outdoor classroom area in 2005 and now have been asked back to manage it to improve its potential. We started the visit with a brief tour of the facilities which are small and compact. But our task was to get the willow structure back into good shape as it had not been looked after for a number of years. We did this with a mixture of cutting, weaving and replanting. Towards the end of the day we were beginning to get to grips with the techniques and what we wanted the final shape to look like. Another couple of hours and we would of completed this apart from weaving in the diagonal side walls, but this can be carried out with the pupils at a later date.
Heavy rain again in the afternoon made conditions tough, let’s hope for better weather next week when we attempt similar work at Lower Fields.
Today we worked with 6 volunteers.
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