2024-2025

Spring 2

19th March 2025

This week we launched bottle rockets that we had made in computing.

12th March 2025

This week at “Knight School” the children learned about dragons. We learned that they might be lurking unseen right in front of us and we didn’t know it. We went on a hunt to see what signs we could see and there were lots of scales, horns, claw marks and hidden eyes around.

5th March 2025 

This week in "Knight School" we looked at what knights wear. The children identified, armour, chainmail, warm clothing underneath. They said that they would also carry things such as swords, axes and shields. They said that they would also have a uniform and we talked about how they would have standards or the family crest or coat of arms. They identified this could either be their family or those who they worked for such as a lord or royalty. They made their own shields with an image they invented to represent them in battle using found natural materials.

26th February 2025

This week Creators received an invitation to knight school. We learned a little about castles and made our own model castles using natural materials that we found in the Forest School area. We were able to name some of the parts of the castle such as battlements and towers.

Spring 1

12th February 2025

This week we carried out our Big Bird Watch. The children had the binoculars and marked down on the sheet which birds they had seen.

5th February 2025

This week Creators looked at birds nests and what materials they use to make them . They looked at which ones were for structure and which were to keep them warm. Then they went to look to see if they could find any bird nest hiding in the trees around school.

29th January 2025

This week we have celebrated Chinese Culture Day and in Forest School we learned about the Lantern Festival that is held on the 15th Day of the Chinese year. We started to make our own lanterns colouring our design on parchment paper. We were really happy with the way they turned out. 

22nd January 2025

This week Creators practiced moving around carefully and quietly with the game ‘Keeper of the Keys’.

The keeper sits in the middle and the other children try to take them without the child in the middle noticing. Some children had very good listening skills and some were good at quietly taking the keys.

15th January 2025

This week Creators made bird feeders to encourage the birds into our school grounds ready for our RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch. 

8th January 2025
 

This week everyone picked a very special stick to represent them in an activity for our worship next week. While we were out we had snow so we enjoyed playing in the snow before it melted.

Autumn 2

4.12.2024

This week Creators made angel decorations for Christmas using recycled cardboard wool and a small paper doily. They worked really hard to wrap the wool around the doll shape. It took some real concentration.

27.11.2024

This week Creators looked at animals native to the UK and were very surprised by some of them such as the adder. They did not think that any snakes lived in the wild in England. We talked about how some animals ears move then we played a game where we had to move like a specific animal but we had to listen carefully to what was being said as sometimes the action was wrong such as “fly like a frog”

20th November 2024

Today Creators investigated the snow and ice. We looked at what sounds it made when we stood on it, what it felt like under our feet and looked carefully to see what patterns we could find in the ice.

12.11.2014

No.16 Wear a wild crown. Creators made jewellery using leaves and treasures they found that they thought were beautiful.

Autumn 1

22.10.2024 

This week Creators collected leaves and used them to collage the spines on a hedgehog picture.

9.10.24 

This week we read The Acorn by Edward Gibbs and looked for tiny treasures that would fit in matchboxes.

25.9.2024 - No.30 Go on a Scavenger Hunt

This week our younger children enjoyed the story Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter and looked for signs of autumn around our site on an Autumn scavenger hunt.

18.9.2024 - No.18 Create some wild art

This week we looked at the story Leaf Man and found 'a Leaf Man's got to go where the wind blows' we then looked around for natural materials to make our own Leaf Man.

11.9.2024 - No. 12 Have fun with sticks 

For our first week of Forest School we changed into our wellies and went to the outdoor classroom to hear the story 'Not a Stick' where we enjoyed hearing looking at all the things the pig imagined his stick was. Then we looked for our own special 'Not a Stick' and shared what we imagined it was.

Maybe you might like to share this story with the grown-ups at home you can watch it by clicking here.