I am feeling a lot more confident for this session and i am so intrigued by the different dynamics of friendships and relationships in the group.

Today half the group were staying at basecamp and the other group were going to the climbing tree. I went to the climbing tree with 4 of the younger boys. Two of the boys initiate a play called Pokemon. They begin to do different moves and have different ways of attacking and defending. One of the other boys clearly wants to join in with the play, he begins to ask questions about the different moves. However because the two other boys are already in the play, in order to answer the questions they have to come out of the play, and reenter the play. So they began to ignore the questions and carried on their play. This other boy then excluded himself from the play and sat on his own. The youngest of the group mainly tried interacting with me and by himself. The boys carried on the play until it was break time.

The second session of today was much more disruptive. The boys had had a busy day at their school and were in an active mood. One of the boys picked up the smaller boy and began to rub his head, he then put the boy down and they laughed a bit. The boys were talking about the mischief this boy had got up to in school today. Throughout the session he did not listen us or his teachers.  He had limited interaction with the other boys, however the other boys were distracted by him ( He seemed to be the one leading most of the play). The children ended up leaving early because they were being so disruptive, the teaching assistants felt it was better for them to leave.

Today was a different day, but I felt I was able to look at the different interactions and friendships in both the groups.