A quick challenge encourages the children to act more intuitively. No time to over think it. Using anything you find, transform a Christmas tree into a native British animal. Some weird and wonderful beasts appeared. The children soon realised the key to this is putting in the main characteristics o
Wild winds this afternoon but we are lucky to still have some sheltered woodland to explore. Some children tried a quick build challenge to make a house for a mouse. You can see that their builds are starting to take shape. The children are now beginning to plan ahead and select materials with more
This week, children from Year 1 to Year 6 were fortunate to be visited by the author Saviour Pirotta. He did workshops with each year group where he talked about some of his famous stories, where he gets his inspiration from and how he plans a narrative. He had children in stitches with his humorous
Year 3 took to the woods to get creative, on a glorious day with no wind. There was small construction going on in the willow room. Playing in and building dens and some nest building too. While all that busy stuff was going on some other children started to create a placement art gallery on the hil
Children in Year 4 spent a challenging morning in our Forest School trying all sorts of different activities. As we’ve all been taking part in the RSPB Big School Birdwatch Miss Rowe thought the children may like to try their hand at nest building, bird style. That means one-handed! The children cou
As you may remember, back in the beginning of December, we shared information about an art project that would be taking place at Harlow Green, which would see artwork being specially created for our school. Leanne Pearce, artist and parent of children who attend Harlow Green, wished to work with us
Reception children continued to use their map reading skills today to plot out sounds that they heard on the listening walk. They are becoming much more familiar with the layout of the grounds and the landmarks that help them orientate themselves. Principle 1: Forest School is a long-term process of
The week of 7 – 13 February is Children’s Mental Health Week. The week is organised by the charity Place2Be, and focuses on the importance of promoting good mental health and wellbeing for children and young people. The theme of this year’s Children’s Mental Health Week is Growing Together. Gr
This week, the boys and girls in Reception have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We read a story about the Chinese zodiac and learnt that this year is the year of the Tiger. We had lots of fun during our choosing times playing in our role play Chinese restaurant, painting blossom pictur
Linking to the RSPB Big School Birdwatch this week the children went searching for bird food. Winter brings its own challenges and though the weather has been mild this year, still the variety of bugs about is much less than in the summer months. Collecting mini beasts was a challenge as many burrow
