Children from 35 schools in Tewkesbury and surrounding areas were invited to a forest school fun day on 2 July in nine woodland locations.
Groups of 30 children per session took part in activities such as digging, colour catching (matching paint colour charts with their woodland discoveries), bug hunting, painting trees with mud, and collecting treasures.
Chris Dee, founder of the Forest School Learning Initiative, who helped run the event, said, 'The day was incredible. Two-thirds of the children had never taken part in a forest school before and teachers were surprised by how quickly the children took to it and how confident they became. During the sessions one child amazed her parents and staff when she spoke to her peers for the very first time.'
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