Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire

Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire

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Crouching Tigers, hidden children!

Today, we:
Hid under leaves, as part of Hide and seek
Played a game of linking animal prints with the animal!
Hammered nails in logs to make hedgehogs
Made footprints on paper to show our prints, comparing these to our animal print games
Read a story about 'each Kindness' and threw stones in buckets to view the ripples to highlight kindness, as part of 'world kindness day!
We have two spaces for this Saturday morning and four spaces in the afternoon! Please book early to avoid disappointment!

Owlets support the Wildlife Trust BCN, Trumpington Meadow Nature Reserve. We are child-led and offer holistic play, safe risk taking over regular sessions.

Owlets value outdoor provision to enable children to be healthy and achieve well-being. Owlets is supporting the Wildlife Trust BCN @ Trumpington Meadow Nature Reserve. Our sessions are on Saturdays 10-12 pm (£15); 1-3pm (£15); holiday camps (dates released nearer the time) & 'Go Wild Owlets' birthdays. We take ages from 2 yrs upwards. All welcome!!! We can tailor sessions for various ages and ch

Operating as usual

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 11/02/2023

We learnt about wax seals and signet rings: personal signature or symbol of family heritage. We did a valentine version and learnt about history of Valentine's day from Bishop Valentine, who became St Valentine. We also added things to our Community Tree and play with mud!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 04/02/2023

More photos of our bee wax melts/ candles and other crafty things!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 04/02/2023

We made holes in the dirt and poured our melted wax into these with the wick. We also put these in heart shaped moulds to see the difference. We talked about bees and read a bee book. A child brought a present for another child about different kinds of families and we read this at hot chocolate time! Bliss!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 28/01/2023

Music and more boots and balancing!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 28/01/2023

We practised balancing on our tightrope with walking sticks! We also did a lot of knot work and transportation of logs!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 28/01/2023

We did the Big Garden Bird Watch today and made feeders and other bird related crafts!

28/01/2023

Woodland singing!

Singing in the woods!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 21/01/2023

Boots and roots!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 21/01/2023

We made rabbits to celebrate the year of the bunny with catkin ears! We had lots of games and danced and sang in the wood. We had our hot stones when our hands got cold! More photos to follow :) Happy Lunar New Year!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 14/01/2023

More photos of today :)

14/01/2023

Stories and rain shelters!

Stories about trees, in our shelter

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 14/01/2023

We made whisks and bird feeders from Christmas Tree Tops. We also made pegs and bashed them in the mud. We also read stories about trees in the shelter with our hot chocolate :)

14/12/2022

Hi All,
OWLETS term will restart on 7TH January.
Merry Christmas 🎄

26/11/2022

Two of the children sat with me and just started singing and chatting while looking at the fire 🔥

Singing around the fire part 1 :)

26/11/2022

Two children sat next to me and we sang and talked around the 🔥

More singing around the fire!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 26/11/2022

It was the Grandmother Tree's birthday today so the children:
🌳 Painted rocks and placed them around Grandmother's trunk
🌲 Made bunting and flags to place around Grandmother
🌴 Roasted marshmellows & sang songs
🎄 Whittled Hazel for the marshmellows

21/11/2022

A child from Owlets decided every year ( last weekend of Nov) to have a little birthday for our 'Grandmother Tree'. The children have started planning this and asked that we do not forget to bring pebble/s in to decorate the base of our grand 88 year old matriarch.
Please can children remember to bring a pebble in for Saturday 🌳

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 19/11/2022

We had a child-led spider theme as a follow-on from the child-led play last week!
Children made cobwebs out of wool, games linked to spiders and read stories about spiders. We also started to learn about ladder knots (marlin spike hitch) and tye dye with Alder cones

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 12/11/2022

Mandragora Plants: we made Mandrakes from clay and shared other (child-friendly!) folklore stories, such as: fairy rings and a pot of gold at the end of the 🌈.
Alongside child-led play, we also made clay pots and planted cress on cotton wool!
Fab day :)

05/11/2022

🎆 firework shapes in tea

05/11/2022

🌈 🔥

Rainbow 🌈 🔥
Bonfire night, of course we had rainbow fire (STEM)!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 22/10/2022

We read Room on The Broom and added things to our big potion and mixed with sticks! We celebrated Diwali with our lanterns and fake candles. We also whittled and did firelighting :)

15/10/2022

Autumn activies

This afternoon we whittled hazel and cooked marshmellows on the 🔥 and sang songs with sticks as instruments! Hitting the rhythm!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 15/10/2022

We made conker 'fireworks', we made dens, we baked bananas on the fire. We made conker art! We hit golf tees in pumpkins!! Fantastico!!!!!
This afternoon we whittled, marshmellows on the fire & played conkers and used psalm drills for our wooden cookies. At Forest school we are proud to be wildlings!!!!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 08/10/2022

More photos of today: We made spooky spider webs with conkers (can you see the conker in the middle, hanging from our fairy tree?!). We also made wooden cookies and fairy houses and imaginary fire-pits with artificial candles. The children also made conker soap and added linseed to our soapy mixture for thickening!

08/10/2022

We made conker soap, the lemon has natural anti-bateria agents contained in it.
We also made dens, games & imaginary stories and our usual singing with sticks!

08/10/2022

Setting up this morning! Guess what we are making today

07/10/2022

We have been going since 2020 and we have had children start with us from this time and continue with us to this day.
I want to really thank you parent carers, whom have been with us since then and regularly support us and really care about the Forest School principles too- thank you!

Principle 1: Forest School is a long-term process of frequent and regular sessions in a woodland or natural environment, rather than a one-off visit. Planning, adaptation, observations and reviewing are integral elements of Forest School.

Principle 2: Forest School takes place in a woodland or natural wooded environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world.

Principle 3: Forest School aims to promote the holistic development of all those involved, fostering resilient, confident, independent and creative learners

Principle 4: Forest School offers learners the opportunity to take supported risks appropriate to the environment and to themselves.

Principle 5:. Forest School is run by qualified Forest School practitioners who continuously maintain and develop their professional practice.

Principle 6: Forest School uses a range of learner-centred processes to create a community for development and learning

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 24/09/2022

Made pretend fires, finished our Oak Gall Ink, made ghosts with conkers and cooked on our made-up tripod fires pits!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 17/09/2022

Conker bonker snake 🐍

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 17/09/2022

More photos of today :) Our wishing tree 🌳 to put any thoughts or wishes down over the last week; Pick-up stick, also known as Jackstraw game! Also, our sensory corner!

Photos from Owlets Forest School Cambridgeshire's post 17/09/2022

We made iron gall ink, conker snakes, played 'pick up sticks' with gator tweezers, parachute games, made wishes for any children who wanted to share their thoughts and wishes from the last week

17/09/2022

Autumn activities are here!

17/09/2022

STEM at Forest School!

What is this I am setting up for circle time chats!

Wildlife Wednesday: How to make oak gall ink! 11/09/2022

Wildlife Wednesday: How to make oak gall ink!

We will be bringing some Oak Galls in on Saturday. On our window sill is some Oak Gall Ink. This ink was used up until the 1970's and was used to write the Doomsday book!
https://youtu.be/kX1FQrEFyJU

Wildlife Wednesday: How to make oak gall ink! Long ago, ink was made using materials found in nature. Join Laura from Essex Wildlife Trust and find out how to make oak gall ink! Don't forget to seek adul...

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STEM at Forest School!
Singing with sticks :)
Our Forest School choir! Beautiful!
Beautiful morning setting up this morning 🦉

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