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Burford woods in the Autumn

Cranford had a very muddy but fun day at Burford Woods today. They loved exploring the Woods and managed so well with the mud and loved getting stuck. We lost a lot of wellies !!!!! They were great around the fire cooking they’re very first s’mores at school.

Burford woods Autumn trip

We had so much muddy fun at the woods this week. We had campfire chilli with damper bread and s’mores. Made dens and woodland gadgets with an Egyptian twist then made art by identifying leaves a.d creating images on the woodland floor.

Burford woods in the Autumn

We had great fun in the woods, making dens, gadgets and creating art with leaves. We also had fire lighting, campfire chilli and s’mores.

Tythecott got muddy!

Tythecott went to Burford Woods and had lots of fun in the rain. We made pyramid dens, shaduf and leaf art/identification. We tried homemade chilli and smores.  Best of all we had fun in all the mud and puddles!

Ashmansworthy at Burford Woods

We had a great day in the woods! The weather was kind and we enjoyed making pyramids, shadufs, damper bread and s’mores. We also identified different trees and completed an obstacle course.  

Shaduf making

Today we had a competition to make an Egyptian gadget that was used to water their crops on different levels.

Shaduf making and pyramid dens

This week is our last week at school before we got to Burford next week. So we had a few things to do before they have the challenges of next weeks trip. They had to work in teams to make a shaduf. This is an Egyptian contraption to move water for water crops. They then […]

Garden design

Tythecott enjoyed examining our mummified tomatoes from a few weeks ago, gardening, cleaning up our forest school area, playing in the mud kitchen, building a fort and washing the stones.  Next week we are all off to Burford Woods…..

FarmWise trip

We had an amazing day today on our trip today to West Point Exeter. There were so many things do to and see and lots and lots of freebies.

All about the trees

Today’s session was all about trees…… a tree straw game to see how many straws we could suck up water, like trees do with their roots.  Creating Halloween leaves and tree identification through leaves and feel tree trunks blindfolded. They looked for minibeasts and re-designing the garden area using Mr MacGregor’s garden as a theme.  […]

Den building and mud painting

Gorwood class making dens and mud painting this week. They had a challenge to build a den in the shape of a pyramid. They had so much fun they even made a added extras a kitchen and living room. The year 6 had something a little extra as they will be working towards and award […]

Junior forester award

The last two weeks we have been doing some fun and activities and some important avtivities. We have been working towards a new award that we have signed up for with the Royal Forestry Society. We’ve looked at what risks in our woodland area and how to make them safe and then looked at identifying […]

Hieroglyphics and naturals dyes

This week we looked at natural dyes, hieroglyphics and Mabon festival.

Natural dye and hieroglyphics

This week we talked about the seasons changing and this weekend is Mabon the second harvest festival of the year. We looked at natural ways to make dye and created artwork using hieroglyphics.

Mabon and Egyptians

This week we’ve been looking at a harvest festival called Mason and looking at natural dyes and using them to write our own messages with the dyes.

Celerbrating Mabon and autumn

Celebrating Mabon  and aving fun with inatural ink.

Tomato Mummies

We had a great first session in the woods. We learnt how the Egyptians used to mummified people, so we used tomatoes. Tree climbing was a must. We also talked about the new school year and how we are going into a different season.

Autumn comes to Forest School

This afternoon we squashed our blackberries to make ink to write Egyptian hieroglyphics for our names with hand prints, decorating organically on our bowls and having fun in our den and mud kitchen.  We also played ‘conker fights’ but we were shown how to do this safely. Can you read our names?

Tennis with Lottie

More fun in the sunshine with Lottie learning new skills. Can you spot them in the photographs?

Wonderful Welly Garden

In continuous provision this week we have enjoyed playing to learn in our welly garden. Playing with a ball, balancing and using a space hopper all help improve our motor skills and hand eye coordination. The small world farm has provided an opportunity to act out farm life, to take turns to use different machinery […]

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