This week Cherry Class and Maple Class went to the woods together. They walked a different way to the woods, as the meadows are currently very muddy due to all of the rain in November. They followed different paths and had great fun running and sliding down hills in turn.
There was still frost on the ground and it was fun making shadows in the low winter sunlight. We had some water bottles to warm ourselves in the cold of the afternoon. Some children collected some of the ‘golden’ maple leaves they had spotted on the track and all of the children tried catching the leaves as they fell from the trees.
The children had all listened to the story of ‘Stick Man’ and how he managed to get home to his family tree for Christmas. They each had the chance to use peelers to peel the bark form hazel sticks and designed their own stick men faces. They then went off to explore and play in the woods with their stick men.
The slack line was fun and Cherry Class has an extra challenge of having to move along it by using sticks to balance with.
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.
The children explored their own interests in the woods, exploring the site, swinging on the hammock or the rope swings and going to see if there was any water in the stream and digging with tools on the clay rich mud.
A massive thanks to our volunteers who supported the children with all of their exploring, play and learning.
