This week was the last week before the 6th class students become assistants for the younger children. They have demonstrated leadership skills in the last few weeks, learning games to teach the younger children, noticing things in nature to show them, figuring out how to 
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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 
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This week pupils from the Czech Republic who had been in Irish schools during the week came to Forest Friday. They were on their school tour to explore different kinds of education in Ireland. On Thursday they spent the day in DSP so it was 
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It was a windy and bright day in the forest today. The gorse was in full bloom and we noticed the dark patches on the sea and figured out that it was probably shadows from the clouds overhead. The children know the structure of the 
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We had a lot of variety today. The children can arrive tired at the end of a week and after a walk up hill from school. One child said at the start, ‘I’m soooooo tired. But I know that’ll change as soon as I’m at 
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March 14th 2025 We continued with playing games that we can teach the younger children. Today it was bat and moth. We noticed that some children prefer to be the bat with a blindfold and trying to catch the moth with ‘echolocation’ and others prefer 
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Today we had Cloud School. ‘Are we really in a cloud?’ ‘I always wanted to be in a cloud.’ ‘It’s so magical. It feels like anything could happen.’ Going back to the same place week after week allows us to know it in a way 
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Hammocks Today we were learning how to put up hammocks with tree straps and carabiners. This will be really helpful when they are assistants for the 1st class and Junior Infants. There’s lots of problem solving and awareness building in this activity. They needed to: 
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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, 
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The sun was shining its welcome to 6th class as they started their final DSP Forest School sessions. There was a real gladness and gratitude for being back in the forest with their friends. We started by playing a few games. As they are beginning 
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