Year 4

During science week the children used the theme of ‘connections’ to look at food chains and food webs at Forest School. Y2 and Y4 were parent blue tits and looked at how things that humans do can negatively impact a simple food chain and how nature tries to mitigate the effect. Year 6 made an […]

Concentration, perseverance, engineering and team work – just some of the skills required for this seemingly straightforward activity. The children discussed how different cultures around the world use these ‘Cairns’ to mark sites of cultural importance or simply safe pathways used by generations of walkers.

Year 4 made stunning willow dream catchers and talked about their significance to Native Americans.

Using only five things they had found in forest school, the children used their creativity and engineering skills to make interesting structures and beautiful ephemeral art.

After gathering firewood to store in the shed we focussed on our senses and how animals use these for protection and survival.

Year 4 used their woodworking skills to make beautiful medals and decorated them with their initials in viking runes.

Creating a safe crossing for Stickman and building a structure that would safely hold their classmates. Our future engineers!