A partner academy in the John Taylor MAT

Nursery Forest School 5th March 2019

Nursery Forest School Week 2 The Nursery children had another great time at Forest School this week with a focus on ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. They started off with a fun game in which they had to listen carefully for special words to follow certain actions, all whilst in the character of a wolf. The […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nursery Forest School Friday 7th July 2017

The Nursery children had a very important job to do today at Forest School! One of the characters out of our story ‘Rainbow Fish’ was sad.  They needed to make something to cheer him up.  And what a great job they did too! Not only did they use their weaving skills to make some wonderful […]

Nursery Forest School Friday 23rd June 2017

After some high-energy team games to warm the children up at Forest School this morning, the Nursery pupils learned how to whittle sticks using vegetable peelers. They followed safety rules very maturely and kept trying to remove the bark from the sticks, even when it became very tricky and hard work! We learned a new […]

Forest School Nursery – Friday 16th June 2017

Today was a bit rainy down at our Forest School site but that didn’t stop the fun and learning for our little Nursery explorers! Making patterns was the focus of today’s session.  After looking at patterns occurring naturally in nature, the children used flowers, leaves, cones and various interesting ‘found’ objects to create some really […]

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