Welcome to Forest School & Garden

2019-2020

Forest School

Spring 1

Snowdrops

by Mary Vivian

I like to think

That, long ago,

There fell to earth

Some flakes of snow

Which loved this cold

Grey world of ours

So much, they stayed

As snowdrop flowers.

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While making the fire last week we made charcoal. Today we used the charcoal to draw pictures.

We used some expressionist painters as inspiration. We tried to make our pictures dark and sad.

Year 3 studied some winter flowers in our garden. They later made some observational paintings of the cherry blossom

Reception class made some kites today and we tested them on the school playground

Year 1 Animals and their habitats

Looking for different animals in their natural habitat

Sorting out different animals

Making a woodland animal

Candy our guinea pig is visiting Year 1 this week.

Year 3 Ancient Egypt

Making stick pyramids

Transporting water by hand -fun but takes a lot of people and a lot of time. There must be a better way

Everyone needs protection. An amulet might be the right thing!

Working together to create enough slope for the ball to roll down. We will need this skill when we build a shaduf and the water channels

Constructing a shaduf to draw the water

Now, channeling the water to the right field

Year 2 Fire of London

We know how to approach the fire circle safely

Time to do some cooking

The perfect respect position for roasting a marshmallow

Time to burn the houses we had made earlier. It is hard to see them go in flames

Not sure if we should burn this one it took him a long time to make

Reception Class

Making Gruffalo monsters

Having a closer look! What comes next in the story of Gruffalo?

Gruffalo cafe - chefs preparing a range of exciting dishes: Roasted Fox, Owl Ice Cream, Scrambled Snake, Gruffalo Crumble with orange eyes and purple prickles on top.

Candy loves when we stroke and feed her.

Year 3

Ancient Egypt. We worked together to make a pyramid out of sticks.

We collected and sorted out the sticks into different sizes. We had to estimate which was the best size for the level we were building- a real balancing act.

Autumn 2

Christmas preparations in Forest School

Making Christmas decorations using a range of berries and evergreen plants

Year 2 are using tent pegs to make stands for their Christmas decorations

After we made a hole in a elder tree bead we used fragrant rosemary as a mini Christmas tree

Year 1 made stickmen.

We learned how to join two sticks using elastic bands, string and wire.

We added hats, cloaks, dresses, shields and swords

Christmas activities: making stick Christmas trees and stick reindeers.

We had to cooperate with our partners to be able to tie and join the strings and sticks.

Forest School Club

Boys are helping to assemble the new bikes for the Nursery children

Shelling beans from our vegetable patch

The beans look magical with their purple skins

Hot chocolate for everyone on this cold afternoon

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Year 3 are making their autumnal crowns

Poetry Corner

After reading the autumn poem the Reception classes looked for different carpets of leaves

Year 1

We have had a rainy day today so we made some owl pictures in the class.

Autumnal art

Autumn time in Forest School

Volunteers help to assemble the bikes for the Nursery children

Autumn 1

Building a Fairy Village

We found some purple beans in our garden. We loved the colour and the smoothness of the beans.

Year 1 children are looking at animals' super powers. We have learned about stink bugs and are trying to make different smelling potions with special powers.