Nursery Forest School 26th February 2019
Nursery Forest School Week 1 The children had a great start to their Forest School experience this week. The fun began with a magic bean game in which the children had to find which of their friends had the same colour bean as their own. They then sat sensibly in our fire circle and listened […]
Year 1 Forest School Week 6
Year 1 have had a fantastic time at forest school this term. The cold weather created a muddy terrain that was perfect for digging, building and exploring. Throughout our time at forest school we linked our activities to our class topic ‘Fire Fire!’. We made wooden medals for firefighters, created little houses out of logs […]
Year 1 Forest School Week 5
This week the children continued with activities all around our ‘Fire Fire’ topic. The children were able to use their timber hitch knot to create dens and continued with creating their firefighter medals. The children also used charcoal pencils that we created last week to draw winter tree pictures. We took inspiration from the tress […]
Year 1 Forest School Week 4
Forest school focused all around our Fire Fire topic this week. First the children made popcorn over the open fire, which required lots of patience. Whilst around the fire the children practised fire safety, including making sure they were sat in the ‘respect position’ to ensure we were all a safe distance from the fire […]
Year 1 Forest School Week 3
Wednesday 23rd January 2019 It may have been cold, but that didn’t stop the children having a fantastic time at forest school this week! The children learnt a new cutting skill using secateurs. They cut different sticks to the correct length to create a mini ladder. It took lots of concentration and measuring to make […]
Year 1 Forest School Week 2
With the recent change in weather, Forest School was a whole new world today! The children had lots of fun exploring the muddy ground and used the mud in some very inventive ways! We learnt about wattle and daub and how the mud, mixed with straw, could be used to create walls on their tipi […]
Year 1 Forest School Week 1
Year 1 have had a fantastic first session of Forest School this week. We recapped all of our forest school rules before heading off into the activities. Our learning this week was based around The Three Little Pigs and the materials their houses are made from. The children had the opportunity to make a wooden […]
Year 4 Forest School Week 2
Year 4 Forest School Week 2 Wow! What a second week we have had! The children have thoroughly enjoyed it this week as we have been given the opportunity to continue with lots of the activities from last week such as coin making and looking to see what had changed in the natural environment […]
Year 4 Forest School Week 1
Year 4 Forest School Week 1 We have really enjoyed our first session of Forest School. We have been very lucky with the weather because it was supposed to rain! The children have learned how to do lots of new things today and using a bow saw was one of them! Mrs Farrington has also […]
Year 2 Forest School 10 October 2018
This week at Forest School, Year 2 learnt how to create a timber hitch following the story of ‘Sammy snake’ we then used this to create dens. Children also had chance to do some pond dipping to see what was living in our Forest School pond. As always we finished this session with a hot […]
