25/09/2026
Welcome back to Forest School and a wonderful warm welcome to our new EYFS classes, who have enjoyed 2 brilliant sessions out in the Wonder Woods, learning how we start our sessions with a welcome song and some ‘grounding’ in the log circle and then listening for and identify some birdsong. This week a robin has been singing lustily to us!
The Reception children have explored the mud kitchen and den building area, as well as learning how to jump on and off of the swings safely. This week they had their first introduction to tool use, with the palm drills and conker clamps and have made conker necklaces and conker soap – an activity that Y1, 2 and 3 remember and love from last year, and have also tried in the last couple of weeks.
Very excitingly, when we first arrived on the first day, our frog had just hopped out of the pond and was sitting in the log circle to greet the Y2 class! We have all really enjoyed getting back into the ‘swing’ of our outdoor
curriculum! The children have set up hammocks to swing together in, catching up on their summer holiday activities. Y2 and Y3 have hit the ground running with a big project to transform our bug hunting / mini-beast
home area. They’ve been sawing and hammering and drilling and making new signs, as well as painting stones to help share our message to the wider community that there will now be a “bug’s only” designated area in
our Forest School.
Watch this space for photos of the finished area, which should be coming within the next week or so!
We’ve had a couple of drizzly days – mostly on Thursday afternoons, but thank you to all who have remembered that whatever the weather at school drop-off, it might quickly change and it’s very important that the children have their wellies or walking boots and waterproofs in
school on their Forest School day.
