Archive | Forest School
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.
Wild, Wet and Windy.
Posted on November 19, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
Today was very challenging for the children with the weather not being great, however they loved being outside in and building dens, leaf printing, willow moving and planting. They had fun playing against the wind and rolling down the field like leaves.
Burscott in Burford Woods in Autumn.
Posted on November 8, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
Burscott had the most muddiest fun in the woods this week at Burford. They showed so much strength wading through the muddy paths. They were creative with some items that I had bought along with me making binoculars and fish for their fishing rods. They were amazing at making dens in their little groups. I […]
Burford in the Autumn
Posted on November 8, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
This week Foxdown went to Burford woods. They were amazing at handling the terrain, as it was very wet and sticky mud. They showed resilience when tackling the mud. They were creative with den building. The team work was amazing when they had to explain to each other how and where to go on the […]
Burford woods in the Autumn
Posted on November 4, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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
Posted on October 24, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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
Posted on October 23, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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!
Posted on October 16, 2024 | By skersey
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
Posted on October 14, 2024 | By jrichardsonvsp
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
Posted on October 10, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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
Posted on October 10, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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
Posted on October 9, 2024 | By skersey
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…..
All about the trees
Posted on October 3, 2024 | By skersey
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
Posted on September 30, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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
Posted on September 30, 2024 | By forestschoolleader
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 […]
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