Year 3 – Fire Lays – Forest School 25.3.26

Year 3 have continued to learn about starting fires by revisiting fire lays after last week’s session where most of the groups failed wonderfully to light and maintain a fire independently. We used the previous session to review and reflect on where things had gone wrong and the fine details as to why we couldn’t light a fire and those who did, shared their successes. Children were able to discuss areas to improve and then create solutions to overcome the problems and barriers they encountered last week. We then worked as teams to create fire lays which children tried again to use flint and steel to set them on fire. Groups persevered with their fire lays and during our review and reflection at the end of the session they all decided that their fire lay making skills, as well as their fire lighting skills, had improved and were full of confidence for the next session where we will be making Egyptian flatbreads for the parent event.