Blog Category: Forest School

Earlier in the term Panda Class invited their buddies to join them in Forest School. As always the children’s behaviour was exemplary and Year 5 were fabulous at supporting their buddies explore a new Forest School site. Mrs Harvey and Mrs Prestleton were extremely proud of all the children. Well…

At Forest School we continued our learning about the Vikings by whittling our very own Viking swords.

A lovely afternoon at Forest school. Today we had to find the Gruffalo child, who had hidden in the forest. Some of us made Gruffalo mud faces on the trees and others made snake or fox crumble. We also enjoyed climbing and building dens as well as digging in the mud hole. Thank you for dressing…

In Forest School this week we noticed that our apple trees are full of fruit. After picking the apples we segmented them, dipped them in cinnamon sugar and toasted them over the campfire................delicious!

Planted seed potatoes whilst they read ‘Supertato’ by Paul Linnet and Sue Hendra in class.

Year 5 – planting pumpkin seeds ready for Halloween. They also planted seed bombs to try and grow a meadow habitat for the insects.

Year 6 – planted sunflower seeds – a legacy to be passed onto the rest of the school as we will harvest the seeds and use them with next year’s year 6

We so excited to share with you the new Forest School Fire Pit Shelter. Thanks to support from the Redhill Trust and Sandwich Deanery, together with our Sports Premium, we have been able to purchase a new fire pit to further enhance the childrens' learning and enrichment at Forest School.