Boots & Brambles Forest School

🌿✨ May 2026 – that’s a wrap! ✨🌿

What a fantastic month we’ve had here at Boots & Brambles Forest School Ltd 🍃💚

This month we’ve…

🌸 Celebrated May Day with barefoot walks, May Day crowns, Green Man models and beautiful nature art

🚑 Held a woodland First Aid day where we built our very own Woodland Hospital – complete with helipad and security checkpoint!

🐝 Celebrated World Bee Day by building bee hives, completing bee challenges and making our own beeswax candles

🎉 Hosted two lovely outdoor parties – one inspired by a favourite story and one packed with den building fun

🌲 Enjoyed another wonderful Into the Woods with Zephyr’s Family Session alongside the amazing team at Zephyr’s, welcoming both familiar and new faces

☀️ Held a sunny May Day Family Session

🪵 Ran TWO sold out Stone Age Survivors Holiday Clubs!

And now… we’re looking ahead to another busy month in the woods 🌳✨

Coming up in June:

🍂 Weekly AP sessions
🌱 Weekly Primary SEMH intervention sessions
🌿 Weekly SEMH sessions for local secondary schools
🎈 Three outdoor parties
🌳 Into the Woods with Zephyr’s Family Session – Saturday 27th June
🏫 Transition sessions for our local primary school children

Looks like another exciting month ahead here at Boots & Brambles ForestSchool 💚🍃

Thank you to all our wonderful families, schools and children for making May so special ✨

✨️🌿Sometimes it’s hard to explain the magic of Forest School to those who haven’t experienced it…
“So you just let the kids play in the woods?”
Well… yes — but it’s so much more than that.🌱✨️

As Forest School practitioners, our role is to facilitate and guide while giving children the freedom to choose their own activities, take risks, solve problems, and learn in ways that are meaningful to them.💚

✨️🌳Today Holiday Club we saw incredible collaboration, teamwork, perseverance and determination.

🌱🌿 We watched friendships form, ideas grow, and imaginative games develop naturally.

🌳🪲There were zipwires and swings created and tested, treasure excavated, bugs hunted, and treetop water runs engineered! The hammock proved very popular too… perhaps a little too popular at times, ending with a few giggles on the ground!🤣

🪵We whittled spears, experimented with Hapa Zome and cyanotype printing, made Stone Age costumes and cooled off with ice pops in the shade of the canopy.🌿

A fantastic day with a brilliant bunch of children. 🌿✨️

Huge thanks to all the parents, carers and children who joined us this week. That’s a wrap on our May Half Term Holiday Sessions! ✅️

🌞We’ll be back in the Summer Holidays for more woodland adventures — Summer Holiday Clubs and Sessions are now open for booking via our website!🌞

🌿🌳🥵 There's no denying it...
Today was DEFINITELY the HOTTEST day we've had

🌿🌳 BUT we were DEFINITELY in the right place under the shade of the canopy in the woods for our Stone Age Survivors Holiday Club! 🌳🌿

🌿🌳 The children were fantastic, it's been a lovely, chilled out day full of...
⛺️ Den building
🌳 Swing making
🌿 Tree climbing
🫧 Bubble blowing
🔨 Tool use
🥄 Potion mixing
🌳 Nature crafting
🍡 Cooling off with an ice pop under the trees!

🌳 A HUGE thanks and well done to all the children - you DEFINITELY survived the SCORCHIO Stone Age! 🥵

🌳 Thank you too to the parents/carers for booking then on - a cool shower may well be in order!!

🌳🌿 Roll on tomorrow for day two of our Stone Age Survivors Holiday Club! 🌿🌳

🌞 🌳 100% the BEST place to be this morning!

🌳The woods are SO lovely and shaded!

💐 A HUGE thanks to everyone who came along to today's May Day Family Session! 💐

🌳 Please feel free to tag us in / share any photos from today's session at Boots & Brambles Forest School

🔥 Forest School Update 🔥
As much as we all love toasted marshmallows and a good campfire, during this heatwave we’ll be pressing pause on fires at Boots & Brambles Forest School 🌲☀️

🌳 Part of being Forest School Leader is teaching children to respect and care for the woods — and lighting a fire in the daytime, in a hot, dry forest in a heatwave, just doesn't feel right to us!

Don’t worry though… we’ll still be bringing the fun (and helping everyone stay cool) with some tasty chilled treats instead! 🧊

🔥 Forest School Update 🔥
As much as we all love toasted marshmallows and a good campfire, during this heatwave we’ll be pressing pause on fires at Boots & Brambles Forest School 🌲☀️

🌳 Part of being Forest School Leader is teaching children to respect and care for the woods — and lighting a fire in the daytime, in a hot, dry forest in a heatwave, just doesn't feel right to us!

Don’t worry though… we’ll still be bringing the fun (and helping everyone stay cool) with some tasty chilled treats instead! 🧊

🚧 ROADWORKS 🚧
🚧 Just a heads-up for anyone attending our sessions over the next few weeks! There are currently ROADWORKS taking place on Tollerton Lane and Road Closure signs in place at both ends. Our site in not accessible via the Melton Road end. To access our site, please approach from the A52 end (Morrisons/the Spires end) There is still a Road Closure sign in place but we are allowed access. See pictures below! 🚧

Join us in the woods this May & June!

🌳 Forest School Outdoor Playgroup
🌿 Monday 18th May 10-11.30
🌿 Monday 8th June 10-11.30

💚 Into the Woods with Zephyr’s Family Session
🌳 Saturday 23rd May 10-12

🌸🌳 May Half Term Family Session
🌱 Monday 25th May 10.30-12

🪵 Stone Age Survivors Holiday Clubs (ages 6+)
🌳 Tuesday 26th & Wednesday 27th May 10-3

Book via our website www.bootsandbrambles.com

🌿🌱 Join us this May & June for our Forest School Outdoor Playgroup

🌿 Mud kitchen
🌱 Hammocks
🌿 Nature-based crafts
🌱 Woodland Play
And much more!

🚗 Onsite car parking
🚻 Indoor toilets and baby change
☕️ Hot drinks & snacks provided
👶 Sibling discount

Available sessions;
🌿 Monday 18th May 10-11.30
💐 Monday 25th May 10.30-12 (*May Day Family Special)
🌿 Monday 8th June 10-11.30

Book via our website www.bootsandbrambles.com