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Year 4 Forest School – Week 4

This week Year 4 were split into three groups so that we could cover a range of activities. Activity one involved using the knotting skills the children had developed last week in order to create a shelter to protect them from the rain.  They thoroughly enjoyed being able to work together as a team and […]

Year 4 Forest School – Week 3

This week the children have been learning how to secure two piece of wood together using a clove hitch and sheer lashing knots. We also used fire strikers in order to light our ‘Pixie Pillows’ and start a fire. Both activities took a lot of perseverance but all the children got there in the end […]

Year 4 Forest School – Week 2

The children were extremely excited this week for our second visit to Forest School. This week we started off the session by going to Charlotte James’ drive to collect sticks for our session next week. We then came back to school and entered the forest School area where we had a quick recap on rules […]

Year 1 – Forest School 8th January 2018

Year 1 had a wonderful start to their Forest School sessions. They were wrapped up warm and full of excitement. Each week Year 1 will be focussing on one of their senses in Forest Schools. Today we used our sense of smell. Children created their own magical potions using scented items such as pine needles. […]

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