Forest School: Blog items
Year 5 - Fun in forest school (Part 2)
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 4:17pm
Here are more pictures from our fun in Forest School yesterday. The children had fun finding tadpoles, looking for frogs and also making their own hotels.
Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 3:57pm
The pupils in year 5 all had a great time in our Forest School lesson this week. We made dens, dug out some plants, made clay pots and much more. It was very wet but all the children stuck it out and persevered.
Nursery Get a Little Bit Muddy!
Date: 11th Apr 2024 @ 11:30am
Nursery had a very muddy forest school experience! It was a very rainy day but that didn't stop us having lots of fun! We hunted for food for the Very Hungry Caterpillar, made a home home for a caterpillar and splashed and squelched in the muddy puddles!
Year 2- Final Forest School Session
Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 3:55pm
Today, Year Two, despite the soggy weather, enjoyed their final forest school session of the year. We went and explored the pond area thinking about which animals would be enjoying the wet, muddy weather and went to see if we could find any- some of us even spotted some frogspawn in the pond. Then we thought about the lifecycle of a frog and played a game of rock, paper, scissors to grow throughout the lifecycle of a frog from frogspawn to an adult frog- every time we won a game of rock, paper, scissors we could progress a step in the lifecycle. Finally, after some of us practiced creating sparks using a fire lighter, we toasted fruit bread on the fire and enjoyed eating it around the fire as a warm treat to end the session.
Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 9:29pm
Our second Forest School session took place on World Book Day, so our focus was on stories and characters. We shared the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears before exploring the Forest School area, using our imagination to create things for characters from stories we have read. Some of the items we created included a house for Goldilocks, a comfy bed for Goldilocks to sleep in, a chocloate cake from Willy Wonka's factory and Harry Potter's wand.
Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 4:52pm
Today, Year Two enjoyed their first forest school session of the spring term. We begun by discussing how the season has changed from Autumn to Winter and what has changed in the outside areas; we then went on a hunt around the garden to find signs that spring is nearly here! Next we made friendship bracelets, working well together to twist the materials tightly and tie a knot so we could wear them before we had a team race to see who was the best at tying knots in string. Finally, we explored shelters and used the parachute to protect us from the cold before making our own dens in the garden to protect a teddybear.
Year 3- Final Forest School fun!
Date: 29th Jan 2024 @ 8:49am
Last week saw Year 3 take on the final forest school session of Winter! The children enjoyed using their skills to build shelters and to build and cook on a fire! We enjoyed the tasty treat of popcorn!
Year 3- Forest School Fun Part 2!
Date: 18th Jan 2024 @ 3:30pm
Today we created a fire and made our own hand warmers by heating rocks. We also used moss, leaves and twigs to make our own bird nests. Due to the cold weather, we found that our pond was frozen. We experiemented to find gthe best way to break the ice. We are looking forward to our final session next week!
Year 3- Forest School Fun is Back!
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 2:49pm
Today we had our first forest school session. We created our own celebration and made crowns, sang songs and drank warm apple juice. We explored the outdoors and planned our next two sessions. We can't wait!
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 7:47am
Year 6 completed their final ever Forest School session at Boundary by putting all the skills they had learned over the years into practice. They built camp fires and cooked their very own pizzas. It was a lovely sessions and the weather was very kind to us.
Year 6 - Forest School (Indoors!)
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 2:01pm
The awful weather conditions did not stop Year 6 enjoying their Forest School sessions this week. Instead of using our Forest School area, we brought the activities inside. The children started the session by foraging for resources to make Christmas crafts and decorations. They learned skills including splitting wood and bending willow to make their own creations.
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 4:02pm
Today we had our first of three Forest School sessions. In this session we spent our time lighting fires, making hot chocolate and using thinsg found in nature to create headbands/wreaths. The weather was cold but the sun was shining and we had a great time.
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 5:44pm
On Thursday, Reception took part in Forest School. It was a windy day but that didn't stop us wrapping up warm and venturing outside to search for animal footprints, insects and spinkle seeds to feed the birds.
We collected sticks to make a huge nest which we decided would be perfect for a big bird , such as an eagle and listened to a story and played some games too.
Date: 2nd Nov 2023 @ 12:29pm
Today was the first of our three Forest School sessions this half term. It was a wet and cold morning but we thoroughly enjoyed our session! We began our session by looking at lines and shapes in nature. We then looked at artwork by Andy Goldsworthy, before exploring and creating our own natural artwork.
Date: 12th Oct 2023 @ 3:07pm
Today was our final forest school session of 2023. We started by sharing one of our favourite books by Julia Donaldson, Superworm. We then searched the area to see if we could find any worms. We looked under logs and dug in the mud. We even pretended to be rain and made a pitter patter sound with our feet to try and trick the worms to the surface. We then made worm habitats using soil, leaves and bark. We are all looking forward to our next sessions in the new year.
Date: 5th Oct 2023 @ 3:35pm
Today, despite the weather, we enjoyed our second forest school session. Michelle read us a book called 'cool by the pool' and we pretended to be the animals in the book before we split into two groups; one group went pond dipping to look for bugs, plants and animals that we might find in a pond habitat and others explored the forest school garden opting to play in the mud puddle, mud kitchen, creating art or playing 'what time is it Mr Owl?' before we swapped over. Just before we came inside, we warmed up by having a cup of warm vimto.
Date: 28th Sep 2023 @ 3:46pm
We began our Forest School sessions today. To start we reminded ourselves of the Forest School rules that are in place to keep us all safe. We then went on a scavenger hunt to find a range of items that we then used to create a piece of art. Some of us chose to play in the mud kitchen and some of us worked together to build a shelter. Then it was onto the pond habitat to search for frogs. We were very excited to see a few hopping about as they were tiny tadpoles last time we visited in Spring.
Date: 7th Sep 2023 @ 3:01pm
This week, the children in year 5 have had the first of their three summer Forest School lessons. After exploring the wild area and picking all of the fruit from the trees, pupils worked together to build dens, clear the pond area and find small animals that have moved in over the summer. Pupils had a great time and can't wait until next week!
Date: 7th Jul 2023 @ 7:41am
Today our Forest School session was all about plants! We began by identifying plants around the area, looking closely at their leaves to help us. We then made our own transient flowers out of natural objects, planted seeds and small plants and used paint pens and charcoal to create drawings of flowers. By the end of our session we had found lots of different wild plants and garden plants, recapped on the parts of plants and the 5 things plants need to survive.
Date: 30th Jun 2023 @ 7:12pm
Nursery had a great time going on Bear Hunt at Forest School. We went through swishy swashy grass, stumbled tripped in the forest, found some very squelchy squercy mud and made a swirling whirling snow storm! We found the bear and it turns out he was actually very friendly!
Date: 22nd Jun 2023 @ 3:41pm
Today was our second Forest School session. The sun was shining again and we had a great time together. Some of the activities included whittling wood, making shelters, finger knitting, den building and make smores. We have thoroughly enjoyed our last Forest School session at Boundary!
Date: 15th Jun 2023 @ 3:10pm
Today we had our first Forest School session of the year. It was a veyr hot day so we made the most of the tarpualins and made plenty of shelters to keep out of the sun. Whilst we were down there, some of us made jewellery using elder branches, some of us finger knitted and some of us explored the pond and surrounding area, where we saw lots of tadpoles and even a couple of frogs. We are looking forward to our next session.
Year 3- Forest School Fun Part 2
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 11:48am
Week 2 of Froest School was a blast! We started by looking at the ponds and we noticed that they were drying up and that our tadpoles were in need of rescuing. Some of us dedicated our time to filling the pond back up and we loved to see the tadpoles swimming again. We also used tools to shave twigs and then used natural resources to dye them. Finally, we used shovels to get ready to plant our own courgettes.
Year 3- Forest School fun returns!
Date: 18th May 2023 @ 10:51am
This week the children of Year 3 went back to our forest school. The children enjoyed the opportunity to get back to nature and observe how the area had changed through the session. We really loved looking at the tadpoles and even spotted a few frogs!
Year 2's Final Forest School Fun!
Date: 4th May 2023 @ 5:20pm
Today was our final session of Forest School in Year 2 and what fun we had! We used lots of the resources we could find including leaves, flowers and string to create our own stick creations, some of us got creative enough and began to build a den. Other children helped chop up fruits so we could enjoy fruit kebabs by the fire and dip them in some melted chocolate or caramel. We loved our final session in Year 2 and cannot wait until it's our turn next year.
