The Impact of Forest School for the children is the knowledge the children have gained from the Forest School experience.
The impact can be seen through the skills, art and craft activities, observations and knowledge of the fruit, plants trees in relation to the seasons and the skills involved in learning how to play Forest School games.
This week the plants we saw were blackberries. The children collected as many as they could find and had fun noticing the different types of berries, hawthorn and rose hips. Once they got to the woods, some children made paint with the berries and painted some lovely pictures! The whole class were great British Citizens, using litter pickers to collect any rubbish from the hedges and edges as they walked to the woods. Well done Cherry Class!
They played a game of ‘Spirit of the Forest’, where they first pretended to be small wild foxes, blackbirds and owls. They had to run from one side to the other without getting caught and turned into a tree! Some children were excellent at this!
Mrs Fry brought her lovely puppy Rupert to the woods this week. Cherry Class were really good a taking it in turns in holding his lead and playing with him on the walk to the woods.
Some children caught a glimpse of some deer crossing the track!
Once we were in the woods, the children were great at tapping sticks in time and following rhythm and movement patterns.
Their creative sides emerged during their free exploration time, exploring the ropes and bridges, hammocks and swings.
