Second Week

The whole school has now completed a first lesson in Forest School, learning about the plants and trees on the site, making maps, beginning whittling skills with vegetable peelers, making fairy plates and invaders searching for evidence of the inhabitants of the site.

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Shelter

Progress is being made with the shelter as the roof goes on.

First Week

Over half the school have taken part in Forest School as all group a's and 10M have had their first experience.
Next week we start all the group b's with 6W, and 4C on Tuesday.

Each year group is following a different theme linked to their curriculum studies. Today Year 5 who will be learning about mapping, tracking and survival skills started by making maps of things that could be included in Forest School. Great ideas were for a balance log, bird feeders but probably most popular climbing trees and a camp fire. Here are some pictures of their maps.

Changes to the site

As we begin our year of Forest School we are already starting to make changes to the site. A shelter is being constructed to provide some cover when it rains. Here is a picture of the first stage.

Seats have now been added so all we need is the roof. Hopefully the rain will keep off in the meantime!

We are also planning to make some further additions. If any parent are having trees cut down or know of any being cut down could you please let us know via the school office as we are looking for stumps to make an all weather circle and a stepping stone run. We also need logs and leaved branches for making a woodland see-saw and shelter building.

FAIRY PLATES

Year 6 are exploring the science and myths of woodlands. To get started this activity based around the celtic myths of faries children began to collect plants and leaves to identify species growing on the Forest School site.

Forest School

Thank you to all the parents that have returned the slips for Forest School. We start this week 12.9.11. All classes in the school have been split into two groups a + b. This week is all group (a) children and next week is all group (b) children.If children are not sure of their group they will need to ask their teacher.

Children should have their Forest School clothes available in school a reminder list can be found below.

Clothing List

For each Forest School session the following clothing items are required.

· Waterproof jacket (can be provided by the school)

· Waterproof trousers (can be provided by the school)

· Wellington boots (can be provided by the school)

· Jogging Bottoms/Tracksuit trousers (not jeans)

· T-shirt or long sleeved  t-shirt type top in summer

· Sweatshirt

· Two pairs of socks (slipper socks are great to keep    feet warm in wellies)

· Sun hat

In winter months children will also need:

· Hat

· Scarf

· Gloves

(all clothing should be named and kept in school in a named bag for the duration of the activities)