Year 4, Week 1 – 9th June 2016
Monday 9th June 2016 Year 4 began their Forest School experience in fabulous weather and were able to explore the area for the first time. The children were given a tour around the site and then given time to walk around it at their leisure. The children were then given the safety talk and […]
Year 5, Week 5 – Wednesday 18th May
Wednesday 18th May This week, we didn’t let the wet weather dampen our spirits as we threw ourselves into our Forest School warm up game. The children were split into three groups with each group having a length of rope. The children had to work together to make a series of 2D shapes; square, triangle […]
Year 5, Week 4 – Wednesday 11th May
Wednesday 11th May 2016 All about Forest School by Jude and Aaron Forest School is great! Before we get into the fun stuff, we have to put our bags down on the benches in the outdoor classroom and we gather on the field for a game. After that, we do all sorts of fun activities, […]
Year 5, Week 3 – Wednesday 4th May
Wednesday 4th May May brought some very welcome sunshine with it, out with the mud and in with plenty of campfire activities! Our afternoon began with us all transformed into spiders and flies as we played a game of tag, where the flies had to be caught by the spiders or in the web of […]
Year 5, Week 2 – Wednesday 27th April
Wednesday 27th April To begin our Forest School session this week, we played a game called ‘Pine Cone Takeaway’. The children were placed into one of four teams with two teams competing against each other. 21 pine cones were placed on the ground between the two teams, each team taking it in turns to take […]
Year 5 go off to Forest School!
Week 1 20.4.16 The ever popular Forest School game ‘Giants, Dwarves and Wizards’ proved a little tetchy to begin with as Year 5 children began their journey of working together as a team. After points were won and lost, disagreements and jubilation, we all made sure we thanked each other for a good game. After […]
Year 3, Wednesday 23rd March 2016
Wednesday 23rd March 2016 Lots of action was happening at Forest School this week. Along with it being our last session this half term, our new Forest School shed and log store has arrived at school and work has begun to erect them! Very exciting! This week Aleeza brought along some marshmallows to toast on […]
Year 3, Wednesday 16th March 2016
Wednesday 16th March 2016 Spring was certainly in the air this week at Forest School, the sun shone which lifted everyone’s spirits! The children had to quickly learn immense patience and cooperation for this week’s warm up activity, which was a game of ‘Count off’. The winning team managed to count collectively up to 22 […]
Year 3, Wednesday 9th March 2016
The children had a brilliant time during Forest School this week. They used the beads cut from elder branches in last week’s session to create some exciting bracelets. The children very carefully coloured the beads using felt tips and threaded them carefully onto string. They were very proud and surprised that they had made these […]
Year 3 Session 2
Wednesday 2nd March 2016 A fun game of ‘Earth, Air or Water’ began this week’s Forest School session. Children worked in smaller groups and when a ball was thrown to them, had to think of a creature that lives (or spends a lot of its time) in either the earth, air or water. Children’s knowledge […]
