MOVE over Ray Mears and beware Bear Grylls – the Reception class of Whyteleafe School are after your jobs.
For the school's forest project, pupils leave the classroom on a regular basis and go into the school grounds for lessons in long-overlooked skills such as tree climbing and fire making.
After-school clubs manager Lorna Smith, who initiated the project last summer, said: "Once a week, for six weeks, teams of 15 children go into the woods for lessons.
"They're so busy having fun that they don't realise they're learning, but it's carefully structured so that they are."
Assistant head teacher Chris Jowett said: "It is huge fun, and it is wonderful to see the children so absorbed in an activity which adds so much to our Early Years curriculum.
"I hope we can find a way to expand it for other years in the school to enjoy."
