2022 Year 5 Forest School Week 2
Week 2 The children have enjoyed creating symmetrical artwork from natural materials including dandelions and daisies. Some children have been able to calve a piece of wood using a knife after cutting a log in half with a saw. The children enjoyed looking at the pond area and finding tadpoles which the children were thoroughly […]
2022 Year 5 Forest School Week 1
Week 1 The pupils in Year 5 have thoroughly enjoyed Forest School for their first week. They have been exploring the Forest School area, looking at the changes that have taken place since they visited the area last time. Children recapped the rules of the Forest School area and they were very respectful to the […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 5
Forest School Week 5 (Full day) The children were very excited to be spending both the morning and afternoon at Forest School. They had a brilliant time creating butterflies by carefully making a knot with two sticks. They then wrapped wool around both sides and added pipe cleaners. The perseverance the children showed when completing […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 4
Forest School Week 4 The children have had a brilliant time at Forest School today! They were very excited to collected lots of different resources to create their own bug hotels! They took their time to arrange the various natural materials neatly into boxes and bottles. We are all hoping we get some visitors soon! […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 3
Forest School Week 3 Another exciting Forest School session for Reception! The children had a great time playing different games such as 1,2,3, where are you, they were very good at finding some clever spots to hide and were able to follow the rules very well. The children had a wonderful tome taking a butterfly […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 2
Forest School Week 2 The children were very excited to continue their forest school explorations today! They were super sensible when preparing for the session and sang brilliantly as they walked across the field. We shared the exciting story of ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson to begin our session and the children had fun joining in […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 1
Forest School Week 1 The Reception children were very eager to begin their Forest School journey as they listened carefully to instructions and made their way across the field. The fun began with a ladybird subitisng game as the children found groups with the same number. They then went onto explore the forest school surroundings […]
2022 Forest School Year 3 Week 6
Year 3 had a fantastic final Forest School session on Wednesday. They planted tomato seeds and a range of different herbs in preparation for their DT topic next term. The children worked as a team to complete a scavenger hunt by finding a range of hidden objects. Finally, as this was our final session, we […]
2022 Forest School Nursery Week 6
Wednesday 6th April 2022 This week the Nursery children began by helping the Easter Bunny find lots of chocolate that had been dropped whilst passing through our Forest School! We then spotted more eggs hiding in the trees and around the pond, and practised our subitising skills to say how many we could see! “There’s […]
2022 Forest School Nursery Week 5
Wednesday 30th March 2022 After reading the story of ‘The Scarecrow’s Wedding’ by Julia Donaldson, the children made their own scarecrows, practising their fine motor skills to join two sticks together. They then dressed them, gave them a face and added some hair using resources found around them. We also made a large class scarecrow […]
