2023 Year 6 Forest School Week 6
Week 6 Fun in the forest for our last ever forest school session. We fried halloumi and made s’mores… delicious. We were also tasked with the job of creating magical viewfinders for the national forest so that they could be displayed at the Timber festival. The idea being so that the Timer festival audience could […]
2023 Year 6 Forest School Week 5
Week 5 A great afternoon for Year 6 at Forest School. We made javelins using sheath knives from sticks that we whittled. This was very enjoyable and therapeutic. We tried to recreate what they would have been like in the Ancient Olympic games. We made Greek inspired pots from clay and we even brushed up on our […]
2022 Year 6 Forest School Week 5
Forest School – Week 5 (Full day) Our final Forest School session was enjoyed by everyone. Year 6 were able to create an Olympic vase using clay and mud and had opportunities to create medals with their wood cookies they had cut using the folding saw. As a special treat, Year 6 ended their session […]
2022 Year 6 Forest School Week 4
Forest School – Week 4 Year 6 particularly loved this session as once we had listened carefully to safety precautions regarding the fire, not only did they get to fry halloumi, but they got to try it too! Lots of the children had never tried halloumi before and now absolutely love it. Pupils were also […]
2022 Year 6 Forest School Week 3
Forest School – Week 3 It was another sunny Forest School session this week! For the starter activity, Year 6 played the ‘Name Game’ – pupils thought of an adjective beginning with the same letter as their name and said it aloud before their peers repeated it. Lots of opportunities were available for the pupils: […]
2022 Year 6 Forest School Week 2
Forest School – Week 2 Wow, the sun was shining for our second Forest School session! Year 6 sat quietly round the fire circle whilst they listened carefully to Mrs Alexander’s instructions for the session. They shared different facts about Ancient Greek sports and discovered that the Ancient Games began in 776 BC, held in […]
2022 Year 6 Forest School Week 1
Forest School – Week 1 To begin, Year 6 had a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors but with a twist, we had Zeus, Hercules and Posidon which linked with on our current topic – The Ancient Greeks! Zeus throws thunderbolts when angry, Hercules is the strongest man in the world and Poseidon makes eathquakes when […]
Forest School Year 6 Week 4
What a fabulous Forest School session! We continued to use sheath knives to make Ancient Greek javelins, made dens and practised lighting ‘fairy blankets’ using fire strikers. Although this was great fun, our favourite part of the session was frying halloumi and pitta bread! Lots of us had never tried halloumi before and now absolutely […]
Forest School Year 6 Week 3
During Year 6’s forest school session this week, we continued to clean the pond and started refilling it with fresh water. Using knives carefully we created javelins with sticks and at the end had a competition to see whose javelins would travel the furthest and stick into the ground. At the end of our session, […]
Forest School Year 6 Week 2
Week 2 – Year 6 Forest School This week at Forest School, we started with a great game where we had to count as high as we could without interrupting or saying a number at the same time as someone else. Using natural resources, we created the Greek alphabet and made garlands, taking inspiration from […]
