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Stone age art and minin cave dens
Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week in Forest school we talked about map and how we use them and also added how compasses work. They had some challenges to work out using the compass and directional language.
Stone age art.
Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week’s session in Forest School was all about map reading and compass work with some Stone age art thrown in. The class created their own cave den then created their own cave painting with charcoal.
Gardening, and games
Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week’s first session of forest school has was fun with planting in the poly then playing games of Bat and Moth.
Posted on April 28, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
Forest school with Sunflowers was exciting we looked at different birds through our binoculars and then decided to make a nest to keep an aggressive safe. We discussed what the egg would need. Then put it in a tree to test its how durable it was.
Damper bread with an Easter twist
Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week we had our last session with Easter Cards and hotcross damper bread.
Easter cards and games
Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week was our last session for the term. We had so much fun making easter cards then changing the rules on traditional games to make them easter themed. They also had some downtime to practice there new calming technique. ‘Take a moment, take a breath’
Cooking hotcross damper bread
Posted on April 4, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week was our last session this term and we have had so much fun. This week we cooked damper bread with an easter twist and made natural Easter cards.
Learning about tides
Posted on March 17, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
Last week Stroxworthy lear the about how tides work and how the moon and sun move the tides.
Photo printing in the sun
Posted on March 17, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
Last week we had a guest Ania (Ziggys mum) come to our forest school session where she showed us how to do some sun printing. The prints turned out so beautifully.
Cooking and clay beads
Posted on February 14, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week we had a cooked s’mores whilst creating beads from clay. Gorwood enjoyed the bead making so much so that they created other great creation that we then put near the fire to harden. There were mushrooms and bears. They also had a game of capture the flag that then led to den building. […]
Cooking with spices
Posted on February 14, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week we had a last minute cooking session in our forest school area. The year 4s decided to create different flavour damper bread where they could use the same base dough then add what spices they wanted. There were some very interesting mixtures with cinnamon and chilli flaes being used together.
Tidying our Forest School area
Posted on January 31, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week the year 4s in Goldworthy decided to tidy our forest school area up in school. This did lead to having a break out music session with the things we were tidying!!! They worked so well as a team and learnt how to resolve conflict with compromising.
The farm
Posted on January 24, 2025 | By soyarzabal
We went to see Samuel at his Nannie’s farm to see some new born lambs we even got to see one born
Coastal school finding fauna and flora
Posted on January 17, 2025 | By forestschoolleader
This week was all about Fauna and Flora. Gorwood were amazed at how different the harbour was as the tide was out this week when we went along to Clovelly Harbour. We looked at identifying Fauna and Flora along the beach and found some really amazing things. Even found a tiny crab!
Cooking and fun in the sun.
Posted on December 4, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
Today was our last session so we had toffee apples over the camp fire. Fun in the sun den building.
Cooking on the fire
Posted on December 4, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
Today was our last session for the half term. We had a fun time cooking apple doughnuts and playing in the dens and mud kitchen.
Snow Day!
Posted on November 21, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
Today was very exciting. Foxdown loved exploring in the snow we made snowmen and other sculptures with moulds. They’re learning then evolved to a science experiment. One little child asked the question ‘ what would make snow melt quicker hot water or cold water?’ So that’s exactly what we did and timed each snowball melting. […]
Posted on November 19, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
We had great fun at forest school. We laid in sun under the beech tree looking at the shadows. We made bug leaves and had a visit from stick man and leaf man.
Posted on November 19, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
We had fun drawing trees and using the new palm drills to make holes I’m the paper fornthe leaves.
Leaf printing and leaf bugs.
Posted on November 19, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
We had a lot of fun making leaf bugs and leaf printing. The children were great at listening to what they had to do and were great and not mixing the paint colour.
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