Year 6 documented their own Forest School session this week. As the year progresses so the children get more autonomy within their sessions. Some of them decided to link into their Second World War topic and build air-raid shelters. These were very impressive, robust, with good knot-work and well ca
In Forest School Reception children have been learning about different flowers and natural objects. This week they worked together in small teams to collect some of their favourite things. They each had their own museum board to place them on and could organise them in a way they felt was most appro
Reception were busy in the Forest School this week identifying flowers and seeds. They did a really impressive job collecting dandy-lions, daisies, cherry blossom and beech nut husks, these were then used in the Creative Clay Area and Mud Kitchen. After all that running around they still had enough
As we enjoy the change in the weather so the time has come to get busy in the garden. Whilst Reception children have been cooking up a storm in the mud kitchen, Year 2 and 3 have been getting some Jerusalem artichokes in the ground and setting up pots ready to plant seeds in the poly tunnel. Old dea
This week it has been so beautiful to have clear, expansive, blue skies, light shining down and not a breath of wind. A beginning of Spring filled with hope, after a very dark, wet winter. All Year groups are still learning about bird identification, playing games to help embed that knowledge but no
Rain doesn’t stop the children embracing their natural world, as you can see they have been very busy in their Forest School sessions. Making prey houses camouflaged from birds of prey. They also completed the RSPB Big School Birdwatch and were really surprised how many birds they saw despite the we
This week we have been learning about birds of prey, their characteristics compared to our familiar garden birds and how and what they hunt. With this in mind once out in the Forest school the children tried their hand at making prey homes that were camouflaged from the sky so no hovering kestrels c
STEM week this week so we gave the children a Forest School style STEM activity. CHALLENGER BRIEF: Your team must design and build a product to move an egg from point A to point B without it breaking. Teams will be provided with a selection of scrap and resources to build their product. You have
As part of our All About the Birds topic, the children have been looking at the structures of different nests. They’ve watched videos of the nest building in action and looked at some real birds nests in class. They then took this information and applied it to their own nest building. Before the chi
This week Nursery started our new topic for the Spring term, Rhyme Time. We will be covering lots of mini topics which have a link to nursery rhymes. This week we learned all about birds and have started to take part in the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch. We started the week talking about different bird
