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Year 2 Forest school. 4.4.2025

We had a lovely sunny day. The children drew a design on their slice of bread using food colouring. Afterwards we toasted them on a fire. They then played in the forest had lots of fun.

Year 5 14.3.25

The children had an amazing first school. We did team building exercises. They really worked well together to come over challenges. Afterwards, they built shelters out of materials found in the forest.

Year 6 7th March 25

Today the children had to work together in teams to get the ball from, one end of the field to the other using guttering. it was quite a challenge. They had lots of fun!

What children think of forest school.

Year 1 14th February 25

As it was valentines day the children iced biscuits and decorated them before we went into the forest. Yum Yum! They learnt about the little people that live in our forest and that sneezy the dragon had come and destroyed their homes. The children then re-built their homes for them and had lots of fun playing.

Year 2 February 7th 25

We had an amazing forest school today. We listened to the story of super worm and then made their own superhero masks. Afterwards the children did a worm dance to make the worms come to the surface. They then made a wormery for their worms to live in.

Year 4 24th January 25

Today it was unsafe to go into the forest as it was to windy. So we did activities in the classroom. The children created their own bird feeders and then made a bird feeder.

Year 5 17th January 25

Year 5 children drew pictures of British birds. We have some great artists. Then children made a rope swing, digging for treasure and climbing trees.

Year 1 Reception and Nursey December 13th 24

Lots of fun climbing trees and digging pits. The children had to find the reindeers and collect food for the reindeers for Christmas eve.

Year 2 6th December 24

A great forest school today. Mud slide made, soup and lots of climbing trees. The children also made bird feeders out of cereal and string.

Year 3 29th November

Year 3 children made bird feeders using cereal and string. Then into the forest to roast apples and marshmallows on the fire.

Year 4 22nd November

The children made lovely bowls using salt dough out of leaves. Lots of fun and mess. Then down into the forest where it was very cold, but the children still had lots of fun.

Year 5 November 18th

Lots of fun making leaf bowls. Then of to the forest to climb trees, dig holes and get muddy.

Year 6 November 8th

Lots of fun making leaf bowls. Then some of the children got to use the whittling knives.

Reception and Nursery 25th October

Mrs Nolan read a story called Hazel and Gretal. Then the children followed the bread crumbs through the forest to the witch's house. They then made different mixtures from the witch's house. Some of the children used the binoculars to watch birds.

Year 1 October 18th

Lots of climbing trees, digging holes making soups with flowers and mud. Then we roasted marshmallows.

Year 2 11th October

The children made trolls out of clay. Then went down to the forest. They learnt about fires and the rules. They then got to roast marshmallows and made smores. Played in the mud kitchen, dug holes and had lots of fun.

Year 3 4th October

Today the children really enjoyed forest school they have completed some sculpture art work and created some volcanoes out of clay. Then went down to the forest and made mud soup and climbed trees.

Year 4 27th September

Lots of fun had in forest school today. Digging holes and mud pies made.

Year 5 20th September

We made smores lots of forest school fun. We made our own fire using flint and cotton wool.

Year 6 13th September

Today the children made living things out of clay related to their science topic, animals and living things. We then went down into the forest and the children had a go at making a fire. Then had yummy smores.