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• Shows their emotions when outdoors in various ways.
• Shows curiosity and interest in the outdoors by actions and facial expressions.
• Plays alongside others in the outdoors.
• Can express how they are feeling when outdoors.
• Willing to try new activities outdoors.
• Enjoys various outdoor activities, showing curiosity.
• Takes part in both independent and group activities.
• Can show a level of self-control. • Shows motivation to try a range of
new activities outdoors and seek challenge.
• Initiates their own outdoor play and open-ended activities, showing fascination and curiosity.
• Takes part in both independent and group activities and learns from others.
• Shows growing levels of adaptability and self-regulation when outdoors to control their reactions.
• Confident to try a wider range of new activities outdoors.
• Shows development of character by growing a positive mindset in outdoor sessions.
• Understands people have different likes and dislikes and respects them.
• Show some empathy when outdoors to others. • Enjoys activities for their own sake, rather
than for external reward or praise. • Happy to try a wider range of new activities
outdoors. • Can work collaboratively in a range of
situations. • Shows a growing level of self-awareness in
their choices, words and actions.
• Listens to simple rules and instructions when outdoors
• Watches adults as role models..
• Listen & responds to simple rules and instructions when outdoors.
• Helps to tidy away after themselves.
• Start to manage their own safety with prompts of rules.
• Learn self-care strategies outside. • Performs outdoor practical tasks
safely with guidance. • Takes a controlled risk with guidance.
• Takes a controlled risk whilst ensuring rules are followed.
• Show a level of self-care outside. • Listens to & follows rules for practical
outdoor tasks. • Uses outdoor resources safely with guidance.
• Shows appropriate risk-taking and learning by trial and error.
• Show how to care for self & others outside. • Shows a basic level of risk-management when
performing practical tasks and when using resources.
• Shows curiosity and interest in the outdoor environment by actions and facial expressions.
• Handles plants and animals with care.
• Shows respect for living things. • Resists picking things that are alive. • Helps with some basic
environmentally friendly activities, such as feeding the birds, planting & litter-picking.
• Can help to care for the environment through different seasons.
• Can leave the outdoor environment how they found it and know why this is important.
• Can pick up litter & sort or recycle materials where appropriate.
• Initiates picking up litter & recycles where appropriate.
• Leave the outdoor environment how they found it, if not better.
• Starts to suggest simple ways to improve the environment.
• Notices, touches, picks up and takes a closer looks at nature.
• Creates using natural materials. • Can create using natural materials and describes their creation.
• Uses imagination and fantasy outdoors.
• Initiate their own creations, choosing their natural materials according to their properties.
• Shows a developing level of imagination & creativity.
• Initiates a variety of imaginative creations with natural materials,.
• Adapts their materials and design as they work
• Experiences outdoor sessions in a variety of weathers.
• Can settle their emotions outdoors.
• Willingly partakes in outdoor learning in all weathers.
• Shows persistence through play. • Repeats some actions outdoors.
• Persists with an activity. • Adapts techniques of play to achieve
desired outcome. • Learns through trial and error.
• Perseveres when something doesn’t work first time.
• Bounces back after failure. • Experiences the outdoor site over all
seasons.
• Persevere when confronted with obstacles. • Experiments how to overcome the obstacles. • Persists with an activity to see it through to
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• Shows developing self-awareness by understanding their strengths and weaknesses.
• Questions ideas and concepts and investigates links between classroom and outdoor learning.
• Make links between their feelings and experiences.
• Listens to others’ ideas and adapts their strategies accordingly.
• Shows a high level of confidence and self-esteem outdoors.
• Initiates own experiential learning around personal interests.
• Able to express their feelings and opinions appropriately.
• Open minded-acceptance of others, their ideas and feelings.
• Displays growing empathy and intuition.
• Develops the ability to think critically.
• Develops a love and passion for the outdoors around their personal interests.
• Shares their ideas and skills with others confidently.
• Shows respect for others. • Shows growing social-awareness
by picking upon social clues.
• Shows a high level of emotional intelligence when outdoors.
• Initiates learning opportunities and evolves ideas and experiments over a number of weeks to extend learning.
• Shows a high level of social-awareness through adaptation of their behaviour within different groups.
• Show they are able to self-regulate their emotions in a range of circumstances.
• Displays a high level of emotional intelligence in a variety of situations.
• Helps others to manage their emotions when required.
• Has an open mind to new experiences. • Shows confidence whilst being conscious of
others. • Shows integrity. • Works well in a variety of circumstances. • Help others’ self-regulate their emotions.
• Uses past experiences to help make decisions when managing their own risk.
• Show developing knowledge of care for self & others.
• Takes appropriate risk and shows awareness of safety.
• Shows a level of responsibility in self-management of their own safety and care whilst taking part in risky activities.
• Shows a good level of responsibility and experience during risky activities.
• Demonstrates adaptive self-management of their own and others’ safety and care.
• Is trustworthy with a range of outdoor resources and in a range of risky activities.
• Shows a high level of self-management of own and others’ safety & care and adapts to the situation.
• Helps with analysing and controlling risks. • Performs dynamic risk assessments for the
risky activities they and others choose.
• Shows awareness of basic environmental issues across seasons.
• Starting to links cause and effect to environmental issues.
• Shows developing conscience of implications for the environment when outdoors.
• Uses sustainable materials.
• Show respect for the environment in a variety of ways.
• Uses sustainable methods.
• Automatically participates in outdoor learning in environmentally friendly ways.
• Suggests more sustainable ways of doing things outdoors.
• Displays a high level of respect for all aspects of the environment.
• Shows innovation and initiative to come up with solutions to improve the environment.
• Asks and tests questions and ideas as they create with natural materials.
• Talk about their design and how they adapted it.
• Demonstrates a variety of techniques and imaginative ideas through their creations.
• Can verify their choices of materials and techniques.
• Initiate their own imaginative & creative outdoor crafts.
• Draws upon what they know about materials and structures to plan, adapt and improve their designs.
• Thinks outside of the box. • Shows a high level of imagination,
originality, creativity and flair.
• Intuitive and innovative in creative projects.
• Thinks of new ways to express their thinking in the outdoor environment.
• Shows flair and talent.
• Willing to stick at activities they find difficult.
• Rises to a challenge.
• Understand that difficult situations are normal and they can be overcome.
• Understand they can develop their abilities through dedication and application.
• Shows optimism even in the face of failure.
• Bounces back and retains a positive mindset throughout.
• Gives others’ strategies to overcome difficulties.
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• Enjoys looking at the trees, flowers and wildlife when outside.
• Explores the textures of different natural materials.
• Picks up natural items of interest from the ground to take a closer look.
• Helps with planting. • Leaves flowers and leaves to
grow (doesn’t pick) • Helps to build wildlife
homes. • Helps to feed the birds.
• Can sow and care for a new seed or plant with help.
• Creates wild-life homes in a group & independently.
• Can help to feed the wildlife appropriately.
• Can sow and care for a new seed or plant in more than one season.
• Builds a specific wild-life home with a creature & appropriate natural materials in mind.
• Can help to feed different wildlife depending on the season.
• Experiences the outdoor site over all seasons.
• Can plant & care for a seed until harvest. • Understands that all habitat layers of an
ecosystem are important. (E.g. even stinging nettles & dead wood)
• Helps to sustain certain links in the food chains by providing particular wildlife feeders & habitats.
• Chooses materials to build wildlife feeders & homes depending on their suitability.
• Notices how adults care for the environment as role models.
• Helps to pick up litter. • Helps to tidy away after
themselves when using resources outside.
• Can pick up litter. • Can leave the outdoor
environment how they found it. • Can talk about the weather.
• Can pick up litter & sort or recycle materials where appropriate.
• Can leave the outdoor environment how they found it and know why this is important.
• Can talk about the weather patterns and link it to seasons.
• Initiates picking up litter & recycles where appropriate.
• Leave the outdoor environment how they found it, if not better.
• Chooses natural or sustainable products for outdoor crafts.
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• Experiences food from seed to plate.
• Studies the biodiversity of the outdoor site in different seasons.
• Helps to improve the short-term biodiversity in different ways.
• Grows according to the seasons. • Studies the biodiversity of the
site through classification of species.
• Analyses possible food chains in their outdoor environment.
• Draws upon this knowledge to suggest long-term improvements to biodiversity.
• Manages growing from past experiences.
• Aware of impacts of outdoor sessions throughout various seasons due to species life cycles.
• Suggests adaptations of activities and practises in different seasons based on this knowledge.
• Initiates ideas to improve biodiversity.
• Adapts growing techniques from past experiences.
• Analyses the biodiversity of the site through classification of species and identifies patterns.
• Learns about permaculture and puts some ideas into practise.
• Helps others improve their outdoor biodiversity by sharing their ideas and knowledge through leaflets, news and events both within their establishment and in the local community.
• Studies the outdoor environment in different seasons.
• Can talk about how their outdoor environment changes throughout the year and why.
• Investigates the soil quality and light quality & how this may effect what grows where.
• Thinks of short-term ways to improve the outdoor environment.
• Analyses the outdoor environment and the impact outdoor sessions may have upon it.
• Suggests ways to reduce the impact of sessions on the environment.
• Suggests adaptations of activities and practises in different seasons to minimise impacts on the environment.
• Initiates ideas to improve the environment.
• Investigates the soil type, PH, light quality & noise pollution & how this may effect the ecosystem.
• Studies how plants and animals are suited to their outdoor environment.
• Investigates that ecosystems can change in both positive and negative ways.
• Implements long-term sustainable growing techniques to improve soil quality.
• Runs campaigns to help to improve their outdoor area & community connections with the outdoors.
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• Comes to an adult when called.
• Stays within a marked area.
• Starts to use simple directional and positional language.
• Follows a route marked on the ground.
• Stays within boundaries. • Uses basic directional and positional
language accurately. (e.g. under, in front, behind, forwards, sideways, etc).
• Experiences a range of simple maps and plans. (Very simple orienteering)
• Start to relate simple features on a map to those on the ground.
• Hold a compass correctly and begin to learn that the red needle points to North.
• Can use a simple map to find specific locations. and features. (Simple orienteering.)
• Can use a compass to find North. • Use their knowledge of North to
find the directions of South, East & West with guidance.
• Draw a simple plan or route with some main features.
• Can orientate a map to identify the direction of locations and features with guidance. (Simple orienteering.)
• Follow a simple route, ticking off features they pass. • Use a compass to find North, South, East and West. • Draw a simple plan or map with a key.
• Watches adults build and joins in occasionally.
• Plays in shelters.
• Can build a mini-shelter with help.
• Can help to carry sticks to build a large group shelter with help.
• Build mini-shelters using natural materials and their own methods, with prompts.
• Build group shelters using both natural and man-made materials, with some guidance and support.
• Learn how to build a simple tent using rope and tarpaulin between two trees, with adult help.
• Learn how to build a simple lean-to shelter with a ridge pole resting on a tree.
• Build a simple tent in a group using rope and tarpaulin between two trees.
• Learn how to build a simple (small) rib-shelter with a ridgepole, 2 forks and ribs.
• Experience travelling and moving over a range of terrain in different ways outdoors with support.
• Can climb and balance on things with help.
• Can walk on different terrains with increasing stability.
• Can roll. • Can jump. • Can move in different
directions.
• Can climb, balance, and swing with increasing control.
• Can travel over different terrain and in different ways with increasing confidence.
• Can talk about the weather and what they need to wear.
• Can climb, balance, swing and hold their own weight. with increasing confidence.
• Can attempt to hang upside down. • Can attempt to climb a low ladder. • Adapt their techniques for
different terrains. • Dresses appropriately.
• Can climb, balance, swing and hold their own weight with control and confidence.
• Can hang upside down with confidence. • Can climb a low ladder. • Show increasing control and coordination with fine &
gross motor skills outdoors. • Learns simple survival skills, such as collecting &
filtering water, building shelters & cooking food.
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• Can pin-point their location on a simple map with a fair degree of accuracy.
• Follow a simple compass direction, e.g. North, South, East or West.
• Add more detail to their sketches of maps and plans with a degree of accuracy.
• Identify ‘handrail’ features on a map when following a route.
• Use features on their map as ‘ticking-off points’ to check they are on the right route.
• Understand when they have made a navigational mistake through comparing their map to ground features.
• Orientate a map continuously as they walk.
• Learn the 8 points of a compass.
• Orientate a map to ground using both a compass and ground features.
• Use the 8 points of a compass to navigate in the correct direction.
• Look at OS maps and start to understand their symbols & keys.
• Learn 4 figure grid references for OS maps.
• Calculate features to pass, aim for and avoid, when navigating.
• Identify features to signify errors in navigation.
• Learn how to take a bearing from a map with a compass and use a compass to locate the direction on the ground with guidance.
• Learn 8 figure grid references for OS maps using compass guidance.
• Have a basic understanding of scale using a !:25,000k OS map, e.g. one blue square = 1km.
• Take a bearing from a map with a compass and use a compass to follow the bearing on the ground.
• Know personal double paces for 100m on flat ground. • Measure a short distance on an OS map & use double pacing
to travel estimated distance (on flat ground). • Combine map reading & compass skills to successfully
navigate a local orienteering course. • Be confident with most OS map symbols. • Learns to use natural signs to navigate, such as moss, the
sun/ moon, stars, & wind direction.
• Night orienteering in a supervised group • Compete at a local orienteering event. • Set, read and follow a compass bearing from an OS map to
find a point. • Understand that 1 map contour is equal to 10m height gain &
start to read and understand the map terrain through contours.
• Understand pacing varies for different terrains & start to adapt accordingly.
• Maintain their position on an OS map with a fair degree of accuracy.
• Estimate a short distance on an OS map by dissecting grid squares.
• Estimate short distances on the ground by eye. • Use back-bearings to check directions. • Use ‘aiming off’ to avoid passing a control point.
• Learn to build a range of different shaped shelters using a tarpaulin and rope.
• Learn to build a lean-to shelter using 2 forked poles against a tree and a support.
• Learn how to make tarpaulin shelters more efficient; thinking about the weather, wind direction, pooling of the tarp and effective guy lines.
• Improve rib-shelter design and size.
• Improve and adapt their design of their rope & tarpaulin shelters.
• Improve and adapt lean-to shelter designs to incorporate features (such as a porch) and improved stability.
• Construct an effective shelter in a group using rope and tarpaulin taking into account the environment, directions and weather conditions.
• Learn to construct a human-sized rib shelter with a porch in a group.
• Build a shelter with rope & tarpaulin that could be suitable to sleep in, both as a group and independently.
• Build a shelter with natural materials that could be suitable to sleep in, both as a group and independently.
• Can move in a variety of ways safely.
• Shows good control, coordination and agility in both fine and gross motor skills.
• Investigates the formation of natural wells.
• Uses techniques such as sand, light and shadows to help spot species tracks.
• Takes part in increasingly challenging physical activities outdoors.
• Investigate rates of transpiration through the use of transpiration catchers.
• Construct a ‘sound-map’ of their outdoor area.
• Shows developing flexibility, balance, strength, technique, coordination and control.
• Build a suitable bridge over a small stream.
• Learns how to be safe by the river/ water.
• Uses awareness of forces to investigate outdoors.
• Takes part in outdoor and adventurous activity challenges both individually and within a team.
• Understand and explain a variety of weather patterns and use their knowledge to prepare suitably for the outdoors.
• Show a high level of awareness of their environment and how to use it sustainably to survive.
• Learns to use natural signs to evaluate their ecosystem, such vegetation cover & prevalent wind direction.
• Shows an interest or flair in a particular outdoor activity. • Transfers skills from other physical activities and knowledge
areas into outdoor activities. • Adapts their technique as they go to improve within
performances. • Learns how to ‘tap a tree’ for sap.
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• Can repeat the names of basic plant features when seen, such as: tree, leaf, flower, grass, stick.
• Can repeat the names of common animals when seen, such as: a worm, bird & squirrel.
• Can identify, name and describe basic plant features when seen, such as: tree, leaf, flower, grass, stick.
• Can identify, name and describe common animals when seen, such as: a worm, bird & squirrel.
• Takes part in simple scavenger hunts with adults.
• Starts to identify evergreen and deciduous trees and talk about differences.
• Compares different tree species by their leaf shapes.
• Compares different types of mini-beasts.
• Names parts of a tree. • Identifies some wildlife using
simple age-specific guides. • Takes part in a variety of
scavenger hunts.
• Identifies and names a common trees and plants using simple ID guides.
• Can identify whether a tree is deciduous or evergreen.
• Names the parts and structure of plants, flowers & trees.
• Identifies and describes a range of common animals.
• Investigates whether animals are herbivores, carnivores or omnivores and deciphers what they may eat in the ecosystem.
• Takes part in a wider variety of scavenger hunts linked to seasons.
• Identifies and names common trees and plants throughout different stages of their life cycles using simple guides. (e.g. by their buds and bark)
• Identifies common mammals and birds in various stages of their lifecycles, using simple guides.
• Identifies a healthy plant or tree from an unhealthy one.
• Identify a range of mini-beasts using guides.
• Takes part in a variety of scavenger hunts linked to seasons and their environment.
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• Starts to compare the structure and patterns of different plants & trees to help identify them.
• Starts to compare the leaf structure in different species.
• Identifies the function of different plant and tree parts.
• Identifies a wider variety of trees and wildlife through a variety of ID techniques. and with the help of guides.
• Explores and uses classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things.
• Starts to understand and identify a wider variety of plant & wildlife species throughout different life-cycle stages.
• Understands some life cycle patterns and differences between mammals, amphibians, insects and birds.
• Increasingly classifies living things into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, (including various micro-organisms, plants and animals.)
• Give reasons for their species identification, drawing upon knowledge of classification.
• Observes how the same species can alter over time.
• Observe how the same species can alter within sub-species.
• Uses a variety of ID guides to help to identify sub-species within species groups.
• Identifies species which are native/ non-native.
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•Can form a firm grip around rope or string.
• Can hold two ribbons in each hand and wave them about simultaneously.
• Can wrap string or rope around an object.
• Can twist two strands of pipe-cleaners, string or rope together, with guidance.
• Winds two pieces of string or rope together with increasing control.
• Attempt to tie a simple overhand knot with help.
• Tie a cow’s tail knot with guidance.
• Round lashing with help
• Overhand knot • Cow’s tail knot • Round lashing • Quick release tension knot • Half hitch
As previous plus: • Round turn and two half hitches • Overhand knot on the bight. • Diagonal Lashing • Shear lashing • Simple bow • Better bow • Timber hitch • Reef Knot
• Handles ribbon, string & rope
• Make a simple bracelet with a pipe-cleaner & ribbon
• Make a rainbow ribbon stick (cow’s tail knots) with help
• Use knot skills to build shelters with help
• Join two sticks with rope to make a wand (round lashing) with help
• Use knot skills to build shelters in a group • Make a stick man using a shear or diagonal
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As previous plus: • Square lashing • Slip knot • Figure of 8 knot • Mooring hitch
As previous plus: • Sheet bend • Tripod lashing • Coil a rope (loose & attached) • Clove hitch • Clove hitch on the bight • Pale hitch
As previous plus: • Bowline Knot • Carrick bend • Ashley stopper • Barrel hitch • Alpine butterfly loop
As previous plus: • Blood knot • Double fisherman’s knot
As previous plus: • Adjustable grip hitch • Blake’s Hitch • Hasty harness • Trucker’s hitch
• Create a puppet system using square lashing and sticks (e.g. for their ‘Elder caterpillar’ - see tool crafts)
• Create a teddy hammock • Create an outdoor swing using a sturdy stick & their knowledge of knots
• Create a tipi using canes & Tripod lashing
• Create a pulley system using knowledge of knots
• Create an outdoor ladder using a sturdy stick & their knowledge of knots
• Use their knot skills in imaginative ways to create and improve outdoor skills and crafts.
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• Can name something they did outdoors with prompts.
• Can talk about what they have experienced outdoors.
• Can talk about what they liked / didn't like during the outdoor session.
• Can talk about what they experienced outdoors and how they felt about it.
• Talks about what they would like to experience outdoors next time.
• Listens to others’ views and shares opinions of experiences through likes/ dislikes.
• Can take it in turns to talk.
• Can start to talk about their strengths. • Can discuss and explain simple skills to
others. • Can talk about how their feelings and
emotions can change when outdoors. • Can listen to others without interrupting. • Celebrates their own and others’
achievements.
• Can share & represent their thoughts and feelings about the outdoors in various ways.
• Can give their opinions on outdoor subjects and back them up with reasons.
• Shows empathy for others’ feelings and respects their opinions on tasks.
• Shows interest in extending their learning outside.
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• Shows increasing confidence to share their own thoughts and feelings.
• Can talk about their strengths, and their weaknesses, openly.
• Can talk about challenging moments in a positive light.
• Shows a deeper level of reflection through their comments.
• Learns from others’ reflections for the future.
• Can respect when others are talking and take account of their opinions even if they differ from their own.
• Thinks about how to extend their knowledge and understanding about the outdoors for the future.
• Can review their learning in a variety of ways.
• Can share their knowledge and skills with others.
• Displays an open mind during reflections.
• Reviews their own learning critically. • Shows a genuine interest in the
outdoors during reviews. • Can think about others and their
feelings when reviewing activities. • Comes up with new ideas to solve
problems ready for the next session.
• Talks about ways they have self-regulated their emotions outdoors.
• Thinks deeper than the ‘here and now’ when reviewing outdoor sessions.
• Adapts their review to take account of others.
• Discusses ways they have self-regulated their emotions outdoors and draws conclusions of how this can help them, and others, in other aspects of their lives.
• Represents their thoughts and feelings in creative ways.
• Shows integrity and empathy to others in their words and actions.
• Can accept self-criticism in a positive light. • Displays a positive/ growth/ mindset and
suggests ways to help others to develop this skill.
SESSION REFLECTIONSREFLECT AND
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• Hand-Tools As previous plus: • Gardening Tools • Screwdrivers • Hammers • Spanners & Pliers • Filing and sanding tools
As previous plus: • Peelers
As previous plus: • Loppers • Hack-saws • Hand-drills
As previous plus: • Secateurs • Bill hook • Axe
• Helps to make a nature bracelet with an adult.
• Creates simple crafts with nature, e.g. nature crown
• Peels their own skewer for toasting. • Creates a butterfly feeder with the drill. • Creates an Elder-bead necklace, though
lopping, peeling, hack-sawing, and threading.
• Tries some wild foods that have been carefully selected by an adult.
• Creates an Elder & Willow charcoal pencil through lopping, peeling & hack-sawing Elder, and adult-supported ‘smoking’ of willow.
• Forage for specific wild foods with an adult, cooks them together and tries them.
• Splits wood with a bill-hook to make kindling.
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• Use a bow-saw and hand-drill with a partner, plus a peeler, loppers, hack-saw & threading to make an Elder caterpillar.
• Learns to whittle a spear using a knife. • Creates a bow and arrow with help using
loppers, hack-saw, knife and knot techniques.
• Learns to build a raft. • Learn to build a pot holder (possibly
for use on the fire pit.) • Create a simple lever.
• Create cordage from stems. • Learn to create a chair and table from
natural materials.
• Use their knowledge of skills and natural materials to adapt designs they know.
• Show creativity and innovation to design their own outdoor craft projects.
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• Can walk around the outside of the fire pit with prompts.
• Can sit sensibly around the fire pit.
• Listens to the fire pit rules and shows some understanding.
• Can walk around the outside of the fire pit.
• Can sit sensibly when the fire is lit.
• Can talk about how to keep safe around the fire (with prompts).
• Can toast on the fire pit with help from an adult.
• Can help to put the fire out safely.
• Can talk about fire safety. • Can collect suitable sticks for
fuel with help. • Can try to create a spark with
a fire-steel. • Learns about the fire triangle.
• Can sort fuel into different sorts, sizes and piles.
• Can help to build a mini-fire (waffle or tipi) with a group and adult.
• Can create a spark with a fire-steel. • Knows the three elements of the fire
triangle. • Can name some positive and negative effects
of fire. • Can toast on the fire safely.
• Can suggest, collect and sort suitable fuel for their size and duration of fire. • Can help to prepare food for cooking and talk about hygiene. • Can talk about some changes which occur to materials when heated. • Experiences natural outdoor crafts being made on the fire as part of a group. • Experiences two different ways of cooking on the fire (e.g. toasting & frying). • Understands that some food needs to be cooked before it can be safely
eaten. • Can build a mini-fire with a group under supervision and extinguish their mini-
fire safely.
N/A • Can make marks with cooled charcoal
• Can make their own skewer to toast their snack (see tool crafts).
• Participates in some wild-cooking on the fire-pit by an adult.
• Participates in ‘Smoking’ willow on the fire-pit to make charcoal for charcoal pencils (see tool craft).
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• Can work as a group to build, light and manage a mini-fire with supervision, including toasting a snack.
• Can extinguish their mini-fire safely. • Can dispose on their charcoal appropriately
when cool. • Experiences three different ways of cooking on
the fire (e.g. toasting, grilling & frying). • Notices how some fuels are better than others.
• Can work as a group to build, light and manage a mini-fire. to cook simple food for their group with supervision.
• Experiences four different ways of cooking on the fire (e.g. toasting, baking, grilling & frying).
• Can talk about some reversible and irreversible changes on the fire pit.
• Can attempt ways to improve their fire if it seems to be going out, drawing upon their knowledge of the fire triangle.
• Can manage their own safety around the fire (overseen by adult).
• Experiences and helps with five different ways of cooking on the fire (e.g. toasting, boiling, baking, grilling & frying).
• Learns about dissolving through boiling, and experiments whether it can be recovered from the solution.
• Experiments with how to separate materials by evaporation.
• Learns that some changes result in the formation of new materials and that these changes are usually not reversible.
• Shows a good level of responsibility around the fire pit (under supervision).
• Shows good knowledge and experience of managing a camp fire.
• Can manage their own and others’ safety around the fire. (Overseen by adult)
• Shows good fire management skills and uses intuition.
• Create char-cloth to use when lighting fires. • Use parts of plants to create natural dyes on
the fire-pit. • Create a stick triangle tie-dye decoration.
• Learn pewter casting on the fire pit to make jewellery with support.
• Use their own crafted pot holder when boiling on the fire-pit. (see tool crafts)
• Uses their lever to adjust their cooking temperature. (See tool crafts).
• Forage for wild foods in different seasons with an adult and cooks them on the fire pit, with guidance.
• Uses their knowledge and skills to initiate safe crafts on the fire-pit under adult supervision.
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