The rain has made the journey through the meadow too muddy, so the children took the route along the Forest Way via the old station.
There was lots of challenge and enjoyment, working out how fast they could run down the slope by the bridge and thinking about other ways to travel down the slope, such as rolling and sliding.
Lilac Class continued their use of tools this week in the woods. They used secateurs, saws and loppers to cut some hazel lengths. The wood they collected will be used for making Christmas decorations for their ‘BAGS OF HOPE’, which they are making for the village community. The children will finish these when they are back in school.
The class collected ever green foliage from the woodland, identifying holly and ivy and weaving and wrapping their wreaths to decorate them.
The children used long sticks to help themselves balance along the slack line.
The children also explored their own interests in the woods, exploring the site, swinging on the swing. The group showed good problem solving, working out how to make the swing high enough to swing properly, as it had been used for much younger, smaller children prior to them being there.
There was lots of interest in where the water flowed at the end of the stream. Lilac spent a long time working out how to successfully dam the stream and noticing what effect it would have on children building a dam downstream. They thought about different materials such as wood, logs, planks and mud, to create a structure that could hold the water back effectively; even creating their own hammers to bang pieces of wood into the bottom of the stream to hold the water effectively.
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, tools used, 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.
Many thanks to our volunteers who got fantastically involved with creating wreaths with the children!
