Team Building

We just get back to school and it stops raining and out comes the sun. An opportunity to start the Year outdoors with ninety excited children from Year 6 with some team building activities.

Children were split into ten teams of nine and a series of activities were placed around the Forest School site and garden.

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The teams could compete in:-

The ball of string relay- Two teams compete to transfer a washer down a length of string tie it on and return in a rolled up ball.

Atomic particle collecting game - Time to save the earth by collecting atomic popping corn with oversized protective gloves

Build it - What can you make with a collection of materials? No talking allowed!

Raise the flag- Use knotting skills to raise the flag

The code breaker relay- Large space needed to match letters and numbers to crack the code, but the need to run and remember numbers can cause lots of confusion.

Endings and Beginnings

As last term ended and each group sat round giving feedback of their first year in Forest School a small rumble of enthusiasm would overtake each group... 'Do you remember when... ? and within a short time nearly every lesson of the year have been covered with someone's favourite moment or with something that had happened which caused everyone to laugh.

As a school we are trying to build learning memories in to children's lives, by giving them experiences and an enthusiasm for learning that will last a lifetime.

As we start the new school year plans are busily being put into place to launch the Cornerstones Curriculum after a successful trial of the Champions unit at the end of the summer term.

Forest School is contributing to those memories, getting children excited about a different way of learning. Already walking down the corridor children are asking, 'Are we doing Forest School? Is it group A this week?' and as the first children emerged for Spy Camp in Year 6 and exclamation of 'Freedom!'