27.06.14 WiseUp school course and Bushcraft Club with Black Wolf Survival

Stayed at Craigs last night due to an early start today, he drove us to an east London school where WiseUp had organised a bushcraft day course with 4 work stations, one covering Fire, another Shelter, Water and Paracord Brackets.
Richard who runs WiseUp arranged for me to run the water station, with the plans for each session to run for an hour, I had not led this course for over a year so read up on my old notes and remembered as much as I could from the session we ran with the bushcraft club recently.
I covered all the points on the first session, but felt I'm presented it in a slightly disjointed manner, but from there each one improved until session 4 felt very smooth.
I'm hoping to do some more sessions with these guys soon.

We went straight from there to Tunbridge Wells for the last session from the bushcraft club that we had been running, we found that most of year 6 were not going to be attending this week as they had just got back from a week away and we thought that this might impact on the rest of the group as this year group had no been an integral part of this course, but what an exciting week it turned out to be, the kids did a treasure hunt, finding items in the woodland finishing with the kids making a picture of me or Craig out of natural materials (see attached photo).
After we had organised certificates for each of them, the kids loved these and applauded each other when they were given out.
As we went to drop the kids back various parents asked if we were running more of these courses as they all said there kids had really enjoyed it.
Craig has been in continuous contact with the school and it look like we will be running a more advanced course in September for year 5 and 6 of 4 weeks and an overnighter in there woodland, another course next year for years 2, 3 and 4 aimed at being more playful and working with the senior school running a more advanced course to run alongside there curriculum.
So although we were sorry to see this course finish it has left us both with a lot of hope for future adventures.
I would also like to thank Craig and his Mrs Jo from Black Wolf Survival for asking me to help him out with this course, and running me around especially in the lats few weeks without a car, collecting me from the train station etc.