Year 1 – Week 6 at Forest School
Thursday 11th February 2016 Following yet another storm earlier in the week, we were very lucky with the weather and were blessed with a wonderful afternoon; blue skies and plenty of sun. In this week’s session we began by playing some of our favourite team games including ‘Giants, Dwarves and Wizards’ and ‘Squirrels in a […]
Year 1 – Week 5 at Forest School
Wednesday 3rd February 2016 Children had a real challenge this week, as the class were split into two groups for a game of ‘Count off’. The idea of this game is to count from one to twenty without preplanning who is going to say which number. If more than one person says a number, the […]
Year 1 – Week 4 at Forest School
Wednesday 27th January 2016 This week our session began with a lively game of ‘Squirrels in a tree’, where children scamper around like little squirrels but have to listen carefully for the owl swooping down! Very quickly, in pairs they make a tree to house a given number of squirrels. Cooperative learning was high on […]
Year 1 – Week 3 at Forest School
Wednesday 20th January 2016 After an energetic game to get us warmed up, the children listened attentively as Mrs. Farrington demonstrated the safety around using a pair of secateurs. All the children got to practice this new technique and showed that they had listened with great care as they put a glove on their helper […]
Year 1 – Week 2 at Forest School
Wednesday 13th January 2016 This week the grounds men came to prune some of our trees at school. As wood is very scarce in our Forest School at the moment we grabbed the chance to collect as many branches as we could. The children were brilliant at clearing the area and dragging the branches safely […]
Year 1 explore our new Forest School
Wednesday 6th January 2016 Our Year 1 children were the first class to experience our new on site Forest School, and were very excited as they made their way across the school field to find out what was behind the tall wooden fence at the bottom. The children were soon in the Forest School spirit […]