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.
We all learned how to climb a stile safely. The children carried buckets to collect things that they had found and talked about Autumn and what they could see around them. We looked closely at acorns, blackthorn, blackberries and the falling leaves. We talked about how to be safe and that we shouldn’t ever put anything we pick in our mouths, because it might make us ill, or poison us.
The children learned that the ‘Wellingtonia’ Tree showed us the way to go. They learned that they could identify it by looking at the skyline and finding the triangle shaped tree.
The children have started learning the skills involved in independently climbing the stiles on the way to the woods.
The children learned how to think of their safety and that of others when we were on the old railway line.
The children learned to shout ‘Pedal Power’ to others to warn each other of oncoming cyclists, so they can be safely to the side as the cyclists pass.
