Year 3 Forest School Term 1 2024-2025

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We have had a very adventurous Forest School Term with Year 3. Here are some of the things the children have been up to. They went on a scavenger hunt for natural materials, built fairy houses for the queen and king, created bows and arrows, picked sunflower seeds and enjoyed the slack…

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Year 1 Term 1 Forest School 2024-2025

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This Term Year 1 read stick man, defrosted stick man from ice, using fine motor skills with pipettes, seeing how the state of materials changed with water and they made their own little stick people from natural materials.  Some chose to make a boat from sticks, others paint brushes (and natural…

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Year 6 Forest School Term 1

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Year 6 have been very busy in Forest School this term - see what we have been up to. 

Day 1 after the summer holidays started straight away with wand - making workshops in small groups. We used secateurs to cut fresh branches to the correct size - mainly cherry and hazel wood. Children used…

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Woodland Trip Year 6 October 2024

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Welcome back to Covert Woods Year 6. After remembering the rules for the boundaries and staying safe, we listened to the noises around us. It was a little windy and we could hear the trees but no birds this time. Most of the woodland trees in this area are beech trees, which some of the children…

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Woodland trip to Covert woods Year 1 October 2024

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We had some very excited Year 1 children going to the woodlands for the first time (many rounds of 'The wheels on the bus' were enjoyed by Mr Taylor!). Luckily the weather was on our side - no storm but the sun was shining for us. 

We hopped on the minibus and walked up to the clearing in…

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Year 3 Forest School Term 6 2023-2024

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Welcome to the Forest School summer term. 

Year 3 children have been very busy exploring and learning new skills: 

We set up some experiments linked to their science topics - exploring how plants suck up water - we listened to trees with a stethoscope and waited for two white ox-eye daisies…

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Year 2 Forest School Term 6 2023-2024

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Welcome to the summer Forest School Term. 

The Year 2 children have been incredibly busy outdoors exploring and learning new skills: 

You have hopefully already read about our trip to Covert woods in a separate blog. 

We learned about Woodland birds, made binoculars and birdfeeders . The…

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Forest School Year R Term 6 2023-2024

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Welcome to the summer fun in Forest School. This Term the Reception children have been fantastic and they have learned and explored the following: 

Passing the squeeze in a circle game - sitting very quietly and waiting for their turn. 

Exploring the slack line for balancing

Comparing the…

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Year 1 Forest School Term 6 2023-2024

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Summer is here (or so we thought) in our Term 6 Forest School. The Year 1 children explored how to tap on different materials, scrape them and blow with a blade of grass between their thumbs. Particularly Elias has shown incredible resilience and kept trying until he managed to make a sound. Well,…

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Year 5 Pig Visit 3

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This morning, we were visited by 'Steve The Gardener' from The Pig for the third and final collaboration as part of this year's 'Adopt a School Programme'. Unlike previous visits where our children have attended The Pig and learnt about food seasonality in the beautiful gardens, this time Steve…

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Year 2 covert woods June 2024

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Year 2 had fantastic weather for a visit to the woodlands last week. 

We listened to the birds and sounds around us, locating the direction. Year 2 did well playing a guessing game about which animals live in the woodlands and we had a go at Zip Zap boing, concentrating really hard. 

The…

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Forest School Year 6 Term 5 - 2024

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Year 6 have been practising their team working skills - making human knots and pyramids - well done. We have been looking at plant flow charts and the children started to look at features of leaves, if they are compound or simple and which shape they have. They identified different trees in the…

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