As part of our literacy lessons about Little Red Reading Hood, we took a walk around our fantastic forest school. This was to inspire us when writing a description of a woodland setting. While exploring we payed close attention to the things we could see, hear, smell and feel. Then we created banks of descriptive worlds and phrases to use later in our sentence stacking lessons.
As part of their History unit ‘Conflict through the Ages’, Y6 pupils made weapons (using natural materials) from the Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age, Roman era, Greek era, Anglo-Saxon era and Viking era. Next term, the children will move onto learning about conflict during the Crusades, World War 1 and World War 2. Continue Reading
Y4 had Forest School with Ms Bell last half-term, where they made lots of creative links to their History topic (The Ancient Greeks). They took part in many different activities from: The Forest School Olympic Games 2023, a host of events created a plethora of medals & crowns to cooking and eating fish and making… Continue Reading
In English lessons Year 1 are reading ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ , the children first read the story and discussed what wild things may be found in a forest. The children then began their first Forest School session this year by hunting for ‘Wild Things’ in Forest School. Children found slugs, worms and… Continue Reading
Reception had a fabulous session in forest school today. The session was based around this week’s focused book ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ The first job was to collect lots of sticks to be used to build a house of sticks. Next the children used their fine motor skills to make one of the characters from… Continue Reading
We went to the forest school to learn about natural and manmade materials. We found examples of these in forest school and discussed how we could group these objects in other ways. Back in class we discussed that natural materials were made of plants, animals of products from the earth. Then we explored other examples… Continue Reading
On Monday, Year 1 made Easter Crafts in Forest School with parents. Children made crosses using sticks, pipe cleaners and wool to decorate. Pupils also created their own Easter Eggs using natural materials found in the forest. Continue Reading
Year 3 children have been busy learning plenty of new forest school skills in our forest school this half-term, such as using a variety of materials to build objects – clay and wood for example. Children have also been using clay to do shell printing; metal wires to create fish for our Stone Age… Continue Reading
Y4 had their Easter Forest School crafts morning with Ms Bell and some parent helpers today! Thanks very much to those who came along to help out! You can see some of our fantastic work tonight at our work showcase in the hall! 😁🌳🐣 Continue Reading
This week in Forest School, Year 1 have been making bird feeders using oranges, lard and bird seed. The children then picked the trees they wanted the bird feeders to hang from and observed the trees overtime. Continue Reading
