2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 6
Year 2 had a great last week in Forest School. They enjoyed watching the chocolate melt in the Dutch oven over the fire. The children loved spreading the melted chocolate onto their fruit kebabs. The children also used this time to reflect on their experience in forest school. They created great reflection pictures onto wood […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 5
Year 2 have had another great week in Forest School. They have made paper houses that resembled wooden houses in 1666 when it was The Great Fure of London. We then placed them around the fire, and they were able to watch the fire spread from one paper house to the other. Just like in […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 4
Year 2 have had another great week in forest school. They have used flint and steel to light cotton wool and have focused on the fire circle kneel. The children have also been practicing using the loppers to cut small sticks to create leaf boats. Exploring has taken place around the forest school and lots […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 3
Wow! Year 2 did a great job this week when tasked with creating a spark with a flint and steel. Children had fun exploring the forest school, foraging for different leaves to make their own leaf animals, and turned tree detectives whilst taking part in a tree treasure hunt. Puddle lane mud bakery was also […]
2023 Year2 Forest School Week 2
Year 2 have had a wet and rainy week in forest school. They have enjoyed exploring the fire of London through forest school by re-enacting Pudding Lane Bakery in a mud kitchen. They have also enjoyed creating a sculpture out of a tree and ribbon to resemble a fire. They used their new knot to […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 1
Year 2 have had a brilliant first week in forest school. The children have recapped the different safety instructions and were whizzes on Mrs Johnston’s quiz! The children then learnt how to use a lopper safely to cut wood and branches. They used this along with their new skill of a clover hitch knot to […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 6
Week 6 Year 2s final session of forest school was so much fun. We did not want it to end! The children reflected on all the wonderful things they have learnt over the last 6 weeks. Mrs Johnston had taught us so much it was hard to pick out our favourite. However, once we had, […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 5
Week 5 Wow, what an interesting forest school session this week. The children all tried cooking using a Dutch oven. We all made some extremely tasty fruit and chocolate kebabs. We used the Dutch oven to melt the chocolate and cover our fruit. After, year 2 also toasted marshmallows over the fire and learnt about […]
2023 Forest School Week 4
Week 4 During year 2s forth forest school session the children had a go at making our own cakes and puddings for the pudding lane bakery using mud. They looked delicious! The children also made bubble wands. We soon released that it was not easy to create the perfect bubble with a stick and a […]
2023 Year 2 Forest School Week 3
Week 3 For our third week in forest school the children learnt about lots of the iconic buildings you can find in London today and how different it would have been in 1666. The children participated in many different activities today including den building. Mr. Mansfield even ended up with a fully furnished den. During […]