Forest School News

• Friday 6 December 2024 Elder Pencil Anyone?
• Friday 22 November 2024 Saw Team-work & Firebuilding For today's forest school news, please check out my little video to see what we have done. Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the brisk fresh air.
• Friday 15 November 2024 Introducing Nugget.... We had a fabulous day today making some DIY bird feeders. We have a resident Robin the children have now named 'Nugget'. He attends all forest school sessions and sings us a lovely song.
• Friday 8 November 2024 Stickman in the Forest School (with Reception Class!) It's been a grey cold day, but this did not by any means dampen the spirits of EYFS! All the children have had a lovely day out in the fresh air.
• Friday 25 October 2024 Leaves & Pumpkin Forest Fest Today was the last day of term. What a fabulous way to end it - with the year 1's doing Forest School!
• Friday 18 October 2024 Autumnal Leaves
• Thursday 10 October 2024 Pumpkin Time
• Friday 4 October 2024 Y6's Wood cookies....
• Tuesday 1 October 2024 Forest School -Year 5 27th September 2024
• 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