Year 6 really demonstrated the knowledge and confidence that they have gained over their years in our Forest School. With a checklist to fall back if needed, they set up the fire pit ready for cooking. This included ensuring all safety measures were met before any lighting takes place, Chopping wood
This week in Reception, we have been reading lots of stories about scarecrows. We read The Scarecrow’s Wedding, The Scarecrow’s Hat, The Scarecrow’s Secret and Tattybogle. In literacy, we used our phonics to label the parts of a scarecrow. As our seedlings are now almost ready to plant out, we
Over the next term both Year 5 and 6 will be taking part in a variety of fire based activities. Whether preparing food, cooking, learning fire safety or fire lighting, it is important that the children are involved in setting these areas up. This gives them a sense of ownership and responsibility. A
The children in Year 2 are currently reading The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson as part of their literacy work. So this week in our Forest School the children were asked to create some nonsense poetry inspired by the book. They would then be asked to present their poems in a variety of ways.
This week in our Forest School the children were asked to create limericks or nonsense poetry about Owls, and then share them in a variety of ways. Before going outside, we read the Owl and the Pussycat and some of Edward Lear’s owl based limericks and discussed the humour often found in this type o
As part of Design and Technology, we have started to make our hand puppets this week and this involved first learning about some of the different types of stitches we can use. After the first challenge of threading the needle, we began with running stitch. We will be having a go at back stitch a
This week in our Forest School the children were asked to create some nonsense poetry inspired by wildlife. They would then be asked to present their poems in a variety of ways. Before going outside, we read some funny limericks and looked at where the rhyming words often sit in a verse. Using a poe
This week in our Forest School the children were asked to create nonsense poems and then share them in a variety of ways. Before going outside, we read some well known hedgehog poems and discussed the humour often found in this type of verse. We looked at where the rhyming words often sit in a verse
Year 2 took part in a big Forest school, tidy up today, in readiness for the gardeners to come in and cut the grass over the holidays. This is such an important element to our Forest School ethos, enabling the children to take responsibility for their environment and to begin to understand how our u
This week, Reception have continued to explore new zones of our EYFS outdoor area. They have enjoyed exploring moving water with our new hill water feature and water chutes. They have also been busy planting Spring flowers and camping in our forest area and looking for fairies and pixies in our
