Welcome to Forest School & Garden
2020-2021
Forest School in Victoria Primary
Summer 1
Year2
Learning about plants in our school environment
Year 3
Designing Egyptian amulets
Creating new Egyptian gods using garden animals as inspiration
Ramps, pulleys and levers - these simple machines helped the Egyptians to build pyramids. We have been experimenting with using different machines to move heavy objects.
Year 1/2
Learning about plants
Planting seeds.
Observational paintings of garden flowers
Reception
Sorting out different mini-beasts
Hunting for bugs
Autumn 2
Year 6 pupils planted an oak tree as part of a project to reconnect people of Nottingham with Sherwood Forest. The tree was donated by The People's Forest.
Year 1 and 2 Human body. We are learning about different bones in our bodies
Year 1 and Reception Diwali story of Rama and Sita
Reception
Elmer the elephant could camouflage himself in the jungle. Can you see how our friend is camouflaged herself among the leaves?
We were learning how to colour our elephants using soil, clay , vegetables and leaves from our garden
Although it was very wet we managed to colour our elephants!
Year 3 We found objects which cast interesting shadows
Year 3 are studying shadows
We used the camera to capture interesting shadows on our faces
Year 2
Year 1 is learning about the human body. We made a leaf man and used different kinds of leaves for each body part.
Autumn 1
Year 2. We are learning about different habitats. There are lots of ladybirds in our
garden.
Year 3 Learning about Stone Age
Making tools
Building traps to catch wild animals :)
Creating prehistoric drawing using natural dyes-beetroot, berries, grass, soil and leaves
Tribal drumming
we made our own drum beaters
Year 2 Looking closely at changes in nature- autumn trees
Year 1 Compering different habitats and sorting out animals
Animals living in our school garden: snails, hedgehogs and bees
Reception We are looking for the best places to hide in our garden. We are pretending to be squirrels hiding their nuts and acorns
We have made some bridges. We are testing how strong they are. The troll is lurking under the bridge waiting for anybody who falls in the water
