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RNLI water safety workshop at Clovelly
Posted on April 22, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week Stroxworthy had a great time at the RNLI learning all about how to be safe at the beach and what to do if they get in danger at the coast.
Clovelly RNLI trip.
Posted on April 22, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
Today we went to the RNLI at Clovelly. We had a great time learning how to be safe in the water amd how to plan a day at the beach.
Gardening project clean up
Posted on April 22, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
Today we planted seeds and got our weeding started.
Easter damper bread over the campfire
Posted on March 31, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This morning we’ve been having fun making easter damper bread and exploring our forest school area in the spring and seeing the changes that are happening in nature now as the weather starts to warm up.
Easter egg willow weaving
Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week we had fun in Foxdown weaving some Willow shaped easter eggs. They were great at creating great patterns and the concentration was great as they enjoyed doing it so much.
Poly and garden project day
Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great day gardeningand gettingour poly and front beds ready for planting. Everyone worked so well in teams and then also on their own/ I was so proud of them all getting this job done. we Still have a little more to do but by next half term we will be ready to […]
Beach art adventures
Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week the weather was the best we’ve had and the children were so excited that the tide was low. We had fun making up stories about a sunken pirate ship and collecting items for their beach art. They were so creative with their art. We even got Jo to show us how to do […]
Ocean adventures
Posted on March 30, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This was our last session at Westward Ho!. We were lucky that the tide was out so we were able to venture on to the beach and take a walk to the pirate ship that has been buroed in the sand. Orleigh had an amazing time expoloring the area and creating stories with great characters […]
Fun at Crooklets with The 2Minute Foundation
Posted on March 17, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
Stroxworthy had so much fun at the beach exploring in the rockpools, building sandcastle towns and learning about coastal erosion and then finally learning and being apart of a clean up crew. They learnt that there are leather back turtle that come to the coastline every year and how the moonsnail egg casing are washing […]
2minute Foundation Crooklets Beach day
Posted on March 17, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We had so much fun today at Crooklets Beach. Burscott Class explored the rock pools and learned and about the honeycomb worm and strawberry anemone. They built towns and learnt about coastal eroision. They had a great time saving animals from all the rubbish and microplastics that get washed up on the beach. They then […]
Crooklets beach with The2Minute Fondation
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great day at Crooklets beach with the staff from The 2 Minute Foundation. They showed us all the cool things they can finds in the rock pools from honeycomb worm to strawberry anemone. Then did a litter pick and looked at how many things they could find on the beach that people […]
Timmy Turtle
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great morning building sand art, sea defences, and talking about the tides and the solar system. As much as today was planned around sea defences the children led their own learning in different directions. Asking questions like how high does the tide get? How does the moon move the tides? How do […]
Rock pooling as a Marine Biologist
Posted on March 4, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week Melbury class became marine biologist and went to Westward Ho! to discover and record creaters and plants. We found some interesting things like a hermit crab that now has a name of Herb. They found creatures such as Chiton. They found numerous shells muscles and razor clam shells. They were really pleased that […]
Tides, lunar cycle and coastal erosion.
Posted on January 8, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
We packed in so much in our first trip to the coast. The class had a great time learning about tide time tables and how to read them. They discussed the lunar cycle and how this changes the tides. We then discussed how tides especially spring tides cause coastal erosion. They then had a challenge […]
Tide tables and sea defense competition.
Posted on January 6, 2026 | By forestschoolleader
This week the first group went to Westward Ho! For our first coastal school session. We discussed the how to read a tide table and hiw the lunar cycle changes the tide. Discussing how the moon tells us whe we will have a spring tide (highest of high tides) and a neap tide (lowest of […]
Forest school in the Autumn
Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
We have had great fun in he Autumn this year in forest a school. We have made scarecrows, mummies in burford wood, woven spiders webs.
Forest School in the Autumn
Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
Ashmansworthy had lots of fun this half term in forest school. They learnt how to whittle for the first time using our new whittling knives and used the palm drills for the first time too. They cooked loads of interesting things at Burford woods.
Forest school in the Autumn
Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
Gorwood have had a great first half of term with forest school. We cooked, made scarecrows, learned how to do knots, got creative with gods eyes and weaving spiders webs for halloween.
Autumn Forest School in the sun!
Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
We had a great first Autumn forest school session. The sun was shining and the children had fun exploring a technique called Hapa Zome. Where they use hammers to bang on leaves that are enveloped in fabric to get the colour from the natural items. they created some great art work that then eithert went […]
Hapa Zome in Forest school
Posted on November 11, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
For our first Forest School session we took advantage of the leaves falling to the ground and created firework pictures using the hapa zome technique. The children enjoyed using the hammers to create different pictures and working out what leaves or grass created the best colour.
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