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Forest Adventures

The Year 5 children have enjoyed a Spring Term of Forest Adventures. Here are some photos of the fun we have had whilst developing our self esteem, confidence and resilience.

Using a compass.

This term, the Reception children have been very interested in mini beasts. We have used the school grounds and local woods. We have observed mini beasts and created homes for them.

The new Year 5's have spent 5 weeks doing Forest School activities in the Spring of 2019. We worked on teamwork, resilience and raising self esteem. Here are just a few photos of what we did.

On a more windy session we stayed at school and created a Willow seat.

The finished structure with all the people who helped. Let's hope it grows!

Sawing pegs to make an edge for the seat area.

A fantastic base camp complete with back off style 'food'. Lots of imagination and knots practice.

Using an axe to make enable the pegs to go easily into the soil.

Using a drill to add to our 'Rainbow Tree' artwork in the school garden.

Pond dipping and maintenance.

This group loved making dens!

Making fire and toasting marshmallows on the sticks we had whittled.

Whittling

Making fire.

More drilling for the 'Rainbow Tree'

Pleased with their creation.

We have been spotting and naming plants. This one is called Hart's Tongue Fern

We visited he old quarry to find treasure and play games.

Creating a treasure trail for the Reception children to follow

Trying out some obstacle courses.

The Year 5s have thoroughly enjoyed our Forest Adventures. We have made fire, whittled sticks to roast marshmallows, made dens, created sling shots, played lots of team games and enjoyed finding out about the fantastic nature surrounding us in the forest. There have been plenty of opportunities for the children to choose activities and develop their self-esteem, resilience and confidence.

Teamwork moving logs to use as a seat.

We created sling shots and had great fun making improvements and target games.

Toasting marshmallows.

We will not be firing at people or with stones!

Sanding and whittling.

The Den kept us dry.

Making fire.

One of out games is 'Forest Fire'. We had to work together as a team to catch the 'animals'.

Pond dipping.

Creating Forest Stones.

We still love puddles!

Sawing a disc to create something special.

The whole group.

Another game. 'Mother Hen' protects eggs from the 'Cheeky Rat' who tries to steal them.

The Easter Bunny hid some eggs. We had to climb to get some of them.