On Thursday afternoons Miss Rowe takes the children in Year 3 for both Forest School and PSHE sessions. This terms PSHE topic has been focused on what makes good friendships. How do we co-operate with each other to improve our relationships? What should a good friendship look like? What do we do when things go wrong?
It has been lovely to see how conscientiously they have applied their ideas into their Forest School sessions. Keeping communication positive, expressing kindness, taking part in team building exercises that help to increase trust, and generally trying to be mindful of how their own behaviours can effect other people.
Principle 3: Forest School aims to promote the holistic development of all those involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners
Article 15 – We all have the right to friends.
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- Stick safety in practice.
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- The children evaluate each other to make sure everybody in confident and safe.
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- Clearing the raised beds.
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- Cutting back the thistles now they have seeded.
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- Taking down our garden frames.
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- Lovely to see the hens again after such a long time.
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- Team building rope games encourage working as a collective.
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- This activity requires constant communication.
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- Breaking the game down into simpler movements can then help the children to progress to the next level.
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- Meanwhile in the mud kitchen there was some cooking afoot.
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- A scoop full of honesty.
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- A gallon of trust.
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- A sprinkling of arguments.
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- What would you put in your friendship soup?
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- These boys worked out an ingenious way to pick up leaves.
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- We have a fantastic new fire pit fence.
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- The children collected woodchip to spread on the firepit floor..
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- Carefully raking into place.
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- Living willow added to the bower.
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- Our new willow gate.
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- Even moving our tables was made easy by good teamwork.
