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. […]
Nursery Forest School, 30 November 2017
The Nursery children had such a treat at Forest School today, seeing their site transformed into a white wonderland. Every blade of grass was wearing its white winter fleece and everywhere was crunchy under our boots! The biggest surprise was when the children saw that the pond was covered in a sheet of hard glass! […]
Nursery Forest School, 23 November 2017
We wrapped up warm for Forest School today as we knew it was going to be chilly! The wind nipped our noses and the cold crept into our wellies but still, the Nursery children had lots of fun down at Forest School! Today the children listened to Adventure Ted telling them all about the wildlife […]
Nursery Forest School, 16 November 2017
Our Forest School session began with a game of Hide and Seek this morning. This helped the children to venture far into the Forest School area together and we had lots of opportunities to count all the way up to thirty! The children found lots of hiding places but there was one thing that let […]
Nursery Forest School, 9 November 2017
What an autumnal morning it was at Forest School today! Adventure Ted showed the children all of the falling leaves and they talked about why so many leaves were on the ground! The children were set some tasks: Find a green leaf. This was harder than we thought it would be! Find a leaf bigger […]
Nursery Forest School, 2 November 2017
Today was the Nursery children’s first ever trip to our school’s own Forest School site. They began by entering the outdoor classroom and meeting a very special person – Adventure Ted! He showed the children around by giving them a guided tour of the area. The children learned how to spot dangers around them and […]
Year 4 – Forest School
Friday 10th November 2017 Week One at Forest School The first week of Forest School for the Year Four’s saw the class familiarising themselves with the area and the safety rules. The session started off with a story based upon an old Native American tale which involved the children moving around the Forest School area […]
Year 2 Forest School 5th October 2017
This week Year 2 were melting chocolate in a Dutch oven. The children loved melting the chocolate over the campfire and even had chance to wash it down with some hot chocolate! We also learned different camp fire songs to keep morale high during the windy afternoon! The children learnt all about the ‘fire triangle’. […]
