Outdoor Education

We have had a very busy spring term packed full with lovely forest school activities. We have been planting a new willow arch, gardening, den building and crafting. The mud kitchen transformed into a pizzeria with some fantastic new recipes and the children have made an array of sweet smelling…

What a fantastic half term of forest school the children have enjoyed. Lots of gardening, team building and creative crafting with natural materials. Our sensory garden is coming into bloom and the children have worked hard to get  the poly tunnel up and running, both are being enjoyed throughout…

The children have been very busy in Forest this week. They have worked hard in the poly tunnel laying the cardboard and bark for the floor, watering our lovely new willow arch, and tending the beds. They have been making seed bombs and taken part in various craft activities with natural materials.…

The children have been very busy in Forest School this term. We have celebrated Valentine’s Day, Chinese New Year and World Book Day amongst many other things. They particularly enjoyed the team building game where they had to cross the field in their team without touching the grass. We have been…

The children had a fabulous time in forest school during December, they took part in lots of natural craft activities, practised their fire lighting skills, they used Peelers and saws to create toadstools and snowman and as always perfected their den building skills.

Class 1 had some special visitors today in their forest school session. They thoroughly enjoyed showing their grown ups how they use the forest school and exploring pumpkin related activities inspired by our English story ‘Pumpkin soup’!

Thank you to Mrs Carter and Mrs Blakeman for setting up…

The children have had a fantastic start to the new year. They have been very busy planting out in our new sensory garden, which looks and smells wonderful, and have had a lovely time collecting leaves and making an autumn colour chart

The children have been very busy again in Forest School this half term. They have particularly enjoyed the  team building games like creeping coyote, hungry birds and what am I. Crafting activities such as Mandala making, nature mobiles and fairy wands have helped develop that connection with…

The children have had a lovely start to Forest School this week. We have started with team building activities and games and have used the classroom learning as a stimulus for some of our activities. Class 1 have created a trap for the evil pea, built a castle for the dragon and made magic wands…

During our forest school sessions we have started looking at winter birds in Britain and tried to identify them.  We have also had a go at weaving birds nests which proved quite tricky. The children have shown lots of interest in participating in the big bird watch, so it will be interesting to…

We have had a busy couple of weeks in forest school, climbing trees, experimenting with natural colours to make paints, carving and modelling with clay and natural materials and of course den building.

We have had a wonderful start to our Forest School this year. The children have participated in games to help develop good communication and teamwork skills, they loved doing leaf identification and finding out what trees we have growing in and around school. They have also spent some time having…