This week Year 1 took part in forest school with Mrs Grant. We were shown how to be safe around a fire. We used our senses to describe what we could see, hear, smell, feel and taste. It helped us to create some superb Firework Poems. We enjoyed tasting hot chocolate!
These beautiful creations were made during lunch time this week 🙂
Using the potato peelers to carve wood.
Making improvements to the Bug Hotel
Making and testing out a rope swing
This week we were lucky with the weather and took the opportunity to have a fire and toast marshmallows.
This week the sun was shining 🙂
Some of the children finished their wood cookies, we wrote one of the Fruit of the Spirit on each one and then made a hole with the palm drill, threaded wool through the hole and hung them in the willow dome.
We also made a rope swing and had great fun using it. I was impressed with the way the children took turns.
There was also more mini den building going on.
This week in our Forest School sessions we used the bow saw. We listened carefully to the tools talk so that we knew how to use it safely. We used the bow saw to cut slices of wood from a branch. we then decorated the slices and wrote a Fruit of the Spirit on each one. Next week we will finish using the palm drill to put holes in the slices and then we can hang them up in the willow dome.
On Thursday some of the children worked together to make a small den / house for an animal. It even had a swimming pool!
This week, Year 2 were lucky enough to be taken out for their first lesson in our fantastic forest school area.
Mrs Grant paid us a visit and took the children out to explore. The children were given a tricky task, The Gruffalo needed a new house! The children soon got busy thinking about all of the things that the children would need to be comfortable and safe. They all showed fantastic imagination and were able to learn new skills and use what was available to build amazing houses for The Gruffalo. One group even made him some toys to play with!
The children really enjoyed their first forest school experience and are excited that they will be able to do more when they go into KS2 next year. They were all well behaved and showed off their fantastic team building and communication skills. Well done!
This week in Year 1, we had a fantastic opportunity to explore the forest area with Mrs Grant. The children created bird’s nest for all the little birdies that visit our forest school area. It was especially challenging as we had to use tweezer to create our bird’s nests. We used all the natural materials we could find.
Take a look at our creations!
Another fabulous week of Forest School activities 🙂
We were a little disappointed because it was too windy for us to have a fire this week. But we made up for it with lots of den building and bug hunting.
The children have really made the most of using the area at lunchtimes this week. There has been lots of good team work and problem solving whilst den building and lots of patience shown when waiting for a turn on the rope swing.
During a Forest School session the Year 5 children toasted marshmallows. They learned lots of fire safety information and were very respectful of the fire. The children really enjoyed the marshmallows and they found it relaxing to be able to sing songs around the fire.
This week the Year 4 children were determined to make a rope swing. I supported them to find a suitable branch. They then worked together to get the rope over the branch. This involved a lot of perseverance and team work 🙂 They really enjoyed using the swing once they had finally completed it.
The Year 5 children were busy doing a variety of activities.
Some children used the loppers and the bow saw to cut down and trim some of the willow branches ready to use them for den building.
Some children used the peelers to whittle sticks and then decorated them.
Some children had a go at using the flint and steel strikers.