It was a very wet one this week in forest school!
We used our knotting skills (which we definitely need to practise!), sticks, rope and whatever we could forage from the forest floor to create mobiles!
Here are some of our creations:
Well done to Cayden and Jacob who were awarded as this week’s winners!
As we do like to get out into the forest school ‘come rain or shine’, it is really important that the children have their tracksuits, appropriate footwear (we really recommend wellies!), waterproof coats, hats and gloves with them.
As the old saying goes, ‘there’s no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing!’
We have been having a great week in Year 2. In Forest school we made a shelter, making sure it was covered to protect animals from rain and predators. In PE we worked as a team to follow instructions and made faces with PE equipment.
In Maths, we have been comparing and ordering numbers before starting our unit of addition and subtraction next week. In English we have written our autobiographies and started writing a character description about Mr Fox. In RE we read psalms and retold the story of Daniel and the lions, thinking about how much we trust God.
Calling all artists!
Over the next few weeks, some updates to our Forest School site are being planned.
As part of this, an entrance sign is being made to guide people in to our Forest School area. We would love to have drawings from the artistic children of All Souls to decorate the sign!
We’d like to see creative, imaginative entries that show all the brilliant activities we take part in at Forest School.
Think about showing:
Nature
Teamwork
Persistence
Challenges
Fun!
Entries should be on a landscape piece of A4 paper with the entrants name clearly labelled on the back. Open to entries from YR-6, please hand in completed drawings to class teachers by Friday 14th October.
I look forward to seeing all the excellent entries!
Mr Rolison
*Forest School is so much fun
Playing in the rain and sun
Building dens and climbing trees
Dirty hands and grubby knees!”
The focus this week was on collecting, sorting and identifying leaves using our classification sheets to help us.
We used these (and some other cool finds!) to create our very own King/Queen of the forest crowns.
Here are the final designs:
Well done to Azal, Evie and Phoebe who were voted and crowned this week’s winners!
Some of our Year 5 and Year 6 children enjoyed their first forest school lesson of the year.
We began the session with a focus on safety discussing how important our 3 school rules are especially in forest school, before kickstarting the fun with our forest school chant. The focus this week was on collecting, sorting and identifying leaves using our classification sheets to help us.
It was an especially windy day today in forest school and although we could spot that Autumn is on its way thanks to the colouring of some leaves and the increasing fall, we noticed that for now, the environment around us was still predominantly green. We will be observing this each week to spot the changes that take place throughout the different seasons.
In honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, we used the leaves (and other finds!) and our creativity to work together in small groups to design and make a crown.
Well done to Sienna, Layla and Eden who were voted and crowned this week’s winners.
This morning the children in Year 2 were challenged to make a good water filter which would clean muddy water. We had to work as teams initially to collect water, mud and natural resources for the filter. Then we started pouring in the muddy water!
Congratulations to Maeve and George who made the clearest water!
Thank you for sending in bottles to make this possible. We had great fun!
We’ve had our first forest school session this week getting to know the area. The children were tasked with finding 3 things smaller than their thumb as well as having some free time to make, play, climb and build! We’re excited for our next session already!
Well our first forest school session just so happened to be on one of hottest days of the year but we were so grateful for the cool shade.
We explored the rules of forest school and then set to building homes for animals that we would find around our school environment.
The children worked brilliantly together and we cooled off with ice lollies at the end. We can’t wait for next week!
