Category: Forest School

The vegetables that the year 3’s planted have been growing! Year 6 have also been watering them regularly. Other year groups enjoyed regular visits to our own allotment. Well done everyone!

The Y3 Forest Schools children took a quick break from planting our home grown plants outside, to do some pond dipping. They found some water beetles, tadpoles, all kinds of larvae and a common newt.

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!