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Invertebrate survey

Posted on March 17, 2022 | By skersey

Ashmansworthy went on the hunt for as many different invertebrates they could find to use for their scientific survey about living things and their habitats. I wonder how we are going to use this information to create data questions…..

Posted on March 16, 2022 | By Mr Cole

Whilst enjoying the sunshine, Sunflowers hunted in the Forest School area and on the School Field for decorations for our crowns. We carefully picked daisy and dandelion flower heads and observed the different shaped and coloured leaves as we added them to our crowns.

Posted on March 13, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Friday was a fantastic forest school with lots of mud! The children had lots of fun, they worked in teams to get in the survival shelters, they played an egg nest game and they worked in groups to cocoon an egg in a nest. We also went on field to test who’s was the strongest […]

Posted on March 10, 2022 | By Mr Cole

After listening carefully to the Forest School rules; no running, staying inside the ribbon boundary and to stop when we heard a special whistle, Sunflowers had a great time exploring the Forest School area. Sunflowers had a busy afternoon climbing, sliding and digging. Thank you Louise and Katherine

Posted on March 9, 2022 | By sappletonwoolsery

The children had great fun playing a variety of games at the start of the session. We played a dragon game, where a child was a dragon and they had to guess who was trying to steal their keys.1 breath game, the children had to run up the field and scream until their 1 breath […]

Posted on March 7, 2022 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Forest School Friday was great fun! Building fires and preparing for Spring.

Posted on March 3, 2022 | By skersey

Ashmansworthy class had a go at bark and leaf rubbing with identification of each. As always we enjoyed our games using different skills.

Posted on February 9, 2022 | By hhardingwoolsery

We have been so busy at forest school this week role play cooking, pruning, digging, planting seeds and making hearts by knocking in nails using a hammer and decorating with wool.

Posted on January 27, 2022 | By hhardingwoolsery

At forest school this week, we made a slide, some dens, used the cargo net with tree stumps to crawl under, made a wool web, did some mark making with charcoal and enjoyed some hot chocolate whilst singing.

Posted on December 13, 2021 | By skersey

Here are our finished tree decorations. We had the choice of robins, people or a reindeer. Which one would you choose? Where will you hang them?

Posted on December 10, 2021 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Today Stroxworthy had lots and lots of fun making damper chocolate bread and eating marshmellows over a lovely warm fire…plus so much more!

Posted on November 28, 2021 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Stroxworthy class had a wonderful session with Louise on Friday. It was very cold but they all had lots of fun together.

Posted on November 22, 2021 | By skersey

As the weather had dropped down in temperature, we needed to be very active this afternoon, so we played lots of new games from our tree game to Sardines, 40:40 out and a new game called the One Breath game. We continued with our a wooden discs where we used the glue gun to add […]

Posted on November 21, 2021 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Stroxworthy had fun on Friday continuing to make Stone Age weapons and exploring the ideas and inventions of Stone Age man.

Posted on November 15, 2021 | By skersey

After a quick tree game in the Forest School area, we reminded ourselves of tool safety whilst carrying and using them. We used the bow saws to cut our discs and then we painted them. Our discs will be finished next week to become tree decorations. We finally had time for a game of 40:40 […]

Posted on November 15, 2021 | By hmorrisonwoolsery

Friday in Forest School we made hunter gatherer sacks, storage pots and Stone Age weapons! Lots of fun!

Posted on November 8, 2021 | By skersey

Ashmansworthy started their forest school creating their own organic notebooks. Each design was very different and I look forward to seeing the finished creation……

Posted on October 7, 2021 | By cdavieswoolsery

Yesterday in Forest School, Alminstone class were using willow and elder to make plates and whistles. Working in small groups with the forest school leaders, we experienced how to use small knives to whittle the elder to create a whistle. It was a slow process, but good fun. Meanwhile, willow was used to weave to […]

Posted on September 15, 2021 | By cdavieswoolsery

Our English learning is based on a book called the Jungle Survival Handbook, so today Alminstone went to Burford Woods to experience what it would be like to survive in the wild. We were faced with a number of challenges to survive in the wild. First we needed to work together to build a shelter. […]

Posted on June 16, 2021 | By sappletonwoolsery

It was a great pleasure to be able to take Ashmansworthy Class to Burford Woods just before the end of half term. The aim of our Forest School sessions is to provide a child-centred, inspirational learning process, that offers opportunities for holistic growth and individual personal development. The philosophy being that the ideas and skills […]

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