Forest School News
Archived News
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Thursday 10 October 2024 Pumpkin Time
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Friday 4 October 2024 Forest School & Outdoor Learning in Yr 6! What a wonderful day! We have thoroughly enjoyed a wide selection of creative outdoor activities and the sunshine! Today we split the class in 2, with half the class completing Forest School activities in the morning and half class on the field, learning outdoors. Today the activities included: wood cookie pendants, a science/nature audit of the local area, a camp fire and hot chocolate, mini habitats and lot of team work! We have been so very impressed with the oracy skills on display today - keep it up everyone!
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Friday 4 October 2024 Y6's Wood cookies....
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Tuesday 1 October 2024 Forest School -Year 5 27th September 2024
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Friday 20 September 2024 Year 4 Outdoor Learning day This week we enjoyed a day of getting outside and learning outdoors. We all had an excellent forest school session with Mrs Le Beau before practising out map setting skills in orienteering. We rounded off the day giving our school garden some TLC, planting some bulbs ready for a colourful spring.
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Friday 20 September 2024 Forest School Starts! It's here, we kick off our first Forest School session of the 2024/2025 school year. I am so excited to be able to share our activities and adventures with you.Forest school was first introduced in the UK 1993. It was founded in Sweden in 1982.The concept is to get children out in nature and learn from nature, build their confidence and work together.There is so much to explore and learn from the natural world.Today we took out year 4's for their first session of the school year. We had 2 sessions, one in the morning and then another after lunch. This is to ensure the whole class benefits. Groups of 15 are alot more manageable and meaningful for everyone involved.Today was all about learning how to make a den. There are so many skills involved. Our fine motor skills are put to the test, working as a team, problem solving and risk assessing. We needed to learn some basic knots - this helped us get our tarps attached to the trees and make shift 'poles'. We used tree branches found in our
