Year 2 Forest School 17 September 2019
We have had a fantastic afternoon at Forest School today. Following on from our theme: ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ Year 2 have made aliens out of clay. Children have continued to safely use loppers to chop large sticks down, ready for a future activity. Finally, children had chance to explore the Forest school area and […]
Year 2 Forest School 12 September 2019
Year 2 had a lot of fun this week at our first Forest School session this school year. We have been incorporating our theme: ‘To Infinity and Beyond’ into our activities. We started off refreshing our minds with the Forest school rules and safety checks. Children created superhero masks using natural materials. After that, children […]
Year 2 Forest School 10 October 2018
This week at Forest School, Year 2 learnt how to create a timber hitch following the story of ‘Sammy snake’ we then used this to create dens. Children also had chance to do some pond dipping to see what was living in our Forest School pond. As always we finished this session with a hot […]
Year 2 Forest School 3 October 2018
Year 2 had another wonderful ‘Frozen’ themed Forest School session. We have created bird feeders, Olaf’s from conkers and we explored forest animal footprints to see which animals live in our forest school. We finished this session with a hot chocolate and song.
Year 2 Forest School 26 September 2018
Year 2 had a lot of fun this week at Forest School. We created melting Olaf biscuits. For this children used a ‘Dutch oven’ and were able to sit around the fire pit safely. Frozen hands using natural materials and creates frozen mud paint to paint pictures with. Well done an enjoyable Forest school session!
Year 2 Forest School Week 1
Year 2-Forest school session 1 -12.9.18 Year 2 had a wonderful start to their Forest School sessions. They were wrapped up warm and full of excitement. This week was closely linked to our ‘Frozen’ theme. Children started the session deciding how they would survive in a snow storm. They then used a hand drill to […]
Year 2 Forest School 5th October 2017
This week Year 2 were melting chocolate in a Dutch oven. The children loved melting the chocolate over the campfire and even had chance to wash it down with some hot chocolate! We also learned different camp fire songs to keep morale high during the windy afternoon! The children learnt all about the ‘fire triangle’. […]
Year 2 Forest School 28th September 2017
This week Year 2 have been using natural materials to apply their maths knowledge. The children decided that they could use sticks to represent tens and leafs or pinecones to represent ones. Here you can see 3 sticks and then 3 pinecones that represent the number 33. The children used loppers to create their sticks […]
Year 2 Forest School 14th September 2017
This week the children were creating their ‘superhero’ shields to tie in with our superhero theme this term. The children learnt the timber hitch knot to tie their shields together. After a few attempts the children got it…. they really showed superhero qualities and never gave up!
Y2 Forest School November 2016
Week 1- Friday 16th September For the first week of Forest Schools the Year 2 children explored the forest school area and as a group we decided on the best rules for the following weeks. The children carried out their own risk assessment of the forest school area which included rules for the pond area, […]