Kings Castle Lodge

This week we have been creative by making crowns and creating a dinosaur playdough universe, we have enjoyed the outdoors in the sun and splashed in the puddles from the rain. And we even had the opportunity to listen to the birds sing a chorus to us on one of our walks.

It has been hot hot hot at the Lodge this week so we have been finding ways of keeping cool whilst still having lots of fun.
Earlier walks , swings in the shade of the trees and lots of water play.

Our vegetable garden is doing very well , the children helped to tidy everything up and get all the weeds out so our vegetables can grow strong and tasty.

And we were lucky enough to find a stag beetle, the children enjoyed seeing this amazing insect up close.

It has been an exciting week at the Lodge.

The outdoor learners were busy this week as our vegetable garden was ready to deliver us some delicious goods which we had at snack time and we learnt a lot about bees for National Bee day.
To help the bees make their honey we planted some flowers for them to collect some pollen. We created Bee hotels so the bees can rest when they get tired during their long trips to and from their hive and we even made our own bees to take home too !
We also had time this week to make our very own nature crowns !

Elsewhere at the lodge there has been lots of play dough fun , and time spent in the garden as well as lots of helping to prepare our snacks and picnics out in the sun.

It’s looking like a sunny weekend , we hope you have some of your own adventures too!

More adventures for the children of the Lodge this week. Being outside is our favourite place to be and this time of year offers us lots of opportunities to take our learning outdoors.

Our extended outdoor learning sessions offer that little bit extra for the older children at the Lodge, run by experienced and qualified Forest school leaders these sessions are more structured with a higher staff to child ratio and allow the children time and opportunity to embrace their environment and explore freely whilst learning new skills and evaluating their own risks.

Everyday is a day to get outside at the Lodge with regular walks in the local nature reserve and surrounding areas, a door to the garden which is always open to allow free flow play and a thriving vegetable patch to take care of.

This week our outdoor learners enjoyed a beautiful picnic by the river and back at the lodge lots of fun was had in the garden with water and sand play.

Another lovely week at the Lodge with the sun shining for us. This week we were thinking about sustainability and caring for our planet. We did some littler picking and installed our new compost bin. We were able to harvest our first produce from the vegetable garden and we all tried some as a snack. We also have had fun with our role play and painting inside the setting too.

Loads more outside adventures this week! Picnics, walks , tree climbing more sand and lots of garden fun. We also enjoyed our small world toys and messy play and had a lovely visit from twinkle toes ! Where we got to play lots of instruments and do some singing and movement.

Sun sun sun ! It has been a lovely week and we have made the most of it by spending lots of time outside. We also enjoyed the spring tide which gave us an awesome beach area to play in and explore this week.

We had some new balancing toys which were a lot of fun and we enjoyed looking after our vegetable garden and spotting the first signs of what we are growing.

This week we have been baking delicious bread and making our own play dough using herbs. We have experimented with different natural resources to make art and had a great time on our walks and we have been climbing tree. X !

Another busy week at the Lodge. Making the most out of some drier weather. We have enjoyed our walks and being outside in the garden. We have developed our growing garden into a beautiful vegetable patch, we’re hoping everything will grown and then we can eat it for snack! And we have enjoyed more cooking and craft activities.