2023 Reception Forest School Week 4
Reception – Week 4 Forest School We were blessed with lovely sunny weather today! The children were reminded about being extra safe at forest school. They avoided the stingers and low branches and carried the big sticks carefully in pairs. Today’s learning activity was building a home for mini beasts – a bug hotel! The […]
2023 Reception Forest School Week 3
Reception Forest School Week 3 Reception have really enjoyed their time in forest school today especially the muddy puddles! The children have been learning about mini beasts in class. They have relished the independence of exploring the woodland searching for bugs. There was huge smile on faces as the children collected their bugs and sat […]
2023 Reception Forest School Week 2
Reception Forest School Week 2 This week the children have had a wonderful time joining in with activities to celebrate the Kings Coronation. They used a variety of natural materials to create portraits of the King and created their own royal crowns. They showed great perseverance to make some frames using sticks by carefully tying […]
2023 Reception Forest School Week 1
Week 1 The reception children had had a great first forest school session. They have enjoyed exploring the forest school environment whilst looking out for some mini beasts and making some mini beast homes. The children were fascinated by some of the mini beasts that they had found and showed excellent teamwork skills as they […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 5
Forest School Week 5 (Full day) The children were very excited to be spending both the morning and afternoon at Forest School. They had a brilliant time creating butterflies by carefully making a knot with two sticks. They then wrapped wool around both sides and added pipe cleaners. The perseverance the children showed when completing […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 4
Forest School Week 4 The children have had a brilliant time at Forest School today! They were very excited to collected lots of different resources to create their own bug hotels! They took their time to arrange the various natural materials neatly into boxes and bottles. We are all hoping we get some visitors soon! […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 3
Forest School Week 3 Another exciting Forest School session for Reception! The children had a great time playing different games such as 1,2,3, where are you, they were very good at finding some clever spots to hide and were able to follow the rules very well. The children had a wonderful tome taking a butterfly […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 2
Forest School Week 2 The children were very excited to continue their forest school explorations today! They were super sensible when preparing for the session and sang brilliantly as they walked across the field. We shared the exciting story of ‘Superworm’ by Julia Donaldson to begin our session and the children had fun joining in […]
2022 Forest School Reception Session 1
Forest School Week 1 The Reception children were very eager to begin their Forest School journey as they listened carefully to instructions and made their way across the field. The fun began with a ladybird subitisng game as the children found groups with the same number. They then went onto explore the forest school surroundings […]
Forest School Reception Week 5
The rain and mud didn’t stop the fun at Forest School this week as the Reception children continued their Fairy tale theme by making bridges to help the Gingerbread Man cross the lake. We had one very long bridge which the children all had fun balancing on to escape the fox! The children used their […]