Year 1 Term 2 2023

Forest School Fun in Term 2:

- Pumpkin hammering with tees and mallets

- practising knots, tying wool to make wands and broomsticks for Halloween

- painting with conkers in a tray

- using a palm drill with conkers and turning them into necklaces etc.

- picking sunflower seeds and pulling out the sunflowers from the raised beds (cutting them with loppers and secateurs)

- mushroom spotting and identification

- Fun mud play

- making bird feeders with lard, seeds, and pine cones

-making birds nests

- learning about some of the local woodland birds

Ask the children what 'territorial' means - we talked about robins...

- We cut logs with a saw and turned them into pets with our newly learned knot the 'Timber hitch' where the snakes wraps around the tree.

What a busy term - have a great Christmas break everyone!