Year 5 Forest School Week 6
Our final week at Forest School. We began by putting out teamwork skills to the test in a pine cone take away problem solving game. It was very evident that our teamwork skills had improved throughout the course of the Forest School sessions. This week we were able to put all of the skills we […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 5
For our starter activity we worked in small groups to make 2D shapes with a rope. We found this a little challenging and had to use our teamwork skills once again. Today we used the charcoal we made last week to produce our own sketches and rubbings within the Forest School area. This was a […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 4
To start our fourth session off, we played a game of Spiders and Flies, which is a little similar to ‘Stuck in the Mud’! We all enjoyed this game and had fun trying to catch the flies! Moving on, we recapped our knowledge about fire and fire safety. We learnt about making charcoal and char […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 3
With the weather being a little rainy, we prepared for Forest School in the classroom this week. We made and prepared Damper Bread with chocolate chips – yummy! In the afternoon we made our way to forest school, where we toasted our Damper Bread […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 2
We started our Forest School by working in pairs, pretending we were human cameras! One child was blindfolded and led to a place of interest by their partner. On removal of the blindfold we described what we saw. We learnt a new skill of how to make a tension knot. We watched Mrs Farrington demonstrate […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 1
Wow! What a great first session at Forest School! We began with a rope circle game where we were split into three groups and we had to stand inside the circle of rope with the circle getting smaller and smaller every few minutes. Next, in our groups we had to line ourselves up in order […]
