Category: Forest School

Year 3 have had fun looking after the plants in the dome. We replanted some of the lettuce into a bigger planter. The forest school children enjoyed bird watching and making animal homes.

Here we are using wood and small hand saws to create small herb planters that we took home for our kitchens.

We cooked on the fire after learning how to maintain it and safely put it out and check that it’s completely gone.

In this session we used a dangerous tool called the Billhook! We used this to split wood!

Here we are discussing the Friends and Foes of an Allotment. We then talked about how we could create ‘yes no’ styled flow diagram to classify them as well.

Year 5 forest school children were clearing the path on Guilsborough Road. A lot of trimmed hedges over the years had built up so we cleared it to make the footpath twice as wide again.

During our ‘Forest School’ session, we made bird feeders!

Here are some photos of Forest School in Year 5 for our Allotment topic. As we cultivated last week, we were now ready to plant some veggies. We planted cabbage, radish, kale, lettuce and carrots. We can’t wait to take them home to eat once they’re ready!

During our Forest School sessions we will be looking at cultivating. During this session we needed to prepare any planters ready to take new vegetable seeds. This included removing any weeds, turning over the soil and then adding some natural fertiliser from the compost bins. We also played a couple of games which were fun. Here we are working together