Year 5 Forest School Week 4
To start our fourth session off, we played a game of Spiders and Flies, which is a little similar to ‘Stuck in the Mud’! We all enjoyed this game and had fun trying to catch the flies! Moving on, we recapped our knowledge about fire and fire safety. We learnt about making charcoal and char […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 3
With the weather being a little rainy, we prepared for Forest School in the classroom this week. We made and prepared Damper Bread with chocolate chips – yummy! In the afternoon we made our way to forest school, where we toasted our Damper Bread […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 2
We started our Forest School by working in pairs, pretending we were human cameras! One child was blindfolded and led to a place of interest by their partner. On removal of the blindfold we described what we saw. We learnt a new skill of how to make a tension knot. We watched Mrs Farrington demonstrate […]
Year 5 Forest School Week 1
Wow! What a great first session at Forest School! We began with a rope circle game where we were split into three groups and we had to stand inside the circle of rope with the circle getting smaller and smaller every few minutes. Next, in our groups we had to line ourselves up in order […]
Year 5, Week 5 – Wednesday 18th May
Wednesday 18th May This week, we didn’t let the wet weather dampen our spirits as we threw ourselves into our Forest School warm up game. The children were split into three groups with each group having a length of rope. The children had to work together to make a series of 2D shapes; square, triangle […]
Year 5, Week 4 – Wednesday 11th May
Wednesday 11th May 2016 All about Forest School by Jude and Aaron Forest School is great! Before we get into the fun stuff, we have to put our bags down on the benches in the outdoor classroom and we gather on the field for a game. After that, we do all sorts of fun activities, […]
Year 5, Week 3 – Wednesday 4th May
Wednesday 4th May May brought some very welcome sunshine with it, out with the mud and in with plenty of campfire activities! Our afternoon began with us all transformed into spiders and flies as we played a game of tag, where the flies had to be caught by the spiders or in the web of […]
Year 5, Week 2 – Wednesday 27th April
Wednesday 27th April To begin our Forest School session this week, we played a game called ‘Pine Cone Takeaway’. The children were placed into one of four teams with two teams competing against each other. 21 pine cones were placed on the ground between the two teams, each team taking it in turns to take […]
Year 5 go off to Forest School!
Week 1 20.4.16 The ever popular Forest School game ‘Giants, Dwarves and Wizards’ proved a little tetchy to begin with as Year 5 children began their journey of working together as a team. After points were won and lost, disagreements and jubilation, we all made sure we thanked each other for a good game. After […]