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St Matthew's CE Primary School

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Forest School Blog

Hello! Welcome to our Forest School Blog.  We will be updating this page frequently so that you can see what we have been up to in the forest. 

 Mrs O and Mrs P - the 'Forest school Fairies' (aka The Forest School Team)

June 2020

Archive

  • Rainbows 26th June 2020

    Published 27/06/20, by Karen Partridge
    It was a beautiful day in the woods today. The weather was kind to us. Lots of sun and lovely and cool under the trees. We had fun using the clay today making lots of different things. Harri made a lovely sculpture with clay and pine cones and Bow
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  • Oak Class 25th June 2020

    Published 25/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle
    Very different to last week! This week we were lucky enough to have blue skies and sunshine in the forest. It was so cool under the trees we didn't realise it had got so hot! We did a lot of bug hunting today. We used our identification books,
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  • Rainbows 19th June 2020

    Published 19/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle
    Another busy morning in the forest today! We all played a game together where we had to try and capture some pinecones from the 'owl'. If the owl turned around and saw us moving, we had to go back to the beginning! We thought it was very f
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  • Oak class 18th June 2020

    Published 18/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle
    Well, one word sums up todays forest school... WET! Very rainy today! The rain brings with it lots of fun though! We loved puddle splashing and collecting rainwater in pots.    We had a go with the soft archery again this week and wer
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  • Rainbows 12th June 2020

    Published 14/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle
    Today we had a message left from Captain Purple Beard! He had lost his treasure in the forest school area and needed our help to find it. We had to read a map and use directions to be able to find it. When we did find it, it was YUMMY!   W
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  • Oak Class 11th June 2020

    Published 14/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle
    Today we had a visit from the infamous pirate Captain Purple Beard! He had lost his treasure in the forest school site. He needed our help to try and find it! We used a map and clues to help us find the pirate hoard!   We had time to climb
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  • Rainbows 5th June 2020

    Published 06/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle

    Well, what a fantastic morning we had! 

    We found an interesting hole in the ground that Samuel and Zachary thought might be the home of a mole. They both decided to make fishing rods and fish for moles. Sam even said he felt a nibble on the end of his rod! All very exciting but the mole failed to make an appearance during our forest school session. We all decided to make the area around the 'mole hole' muddy so the mole would get muddy feet when it left the hole. We then put pieces of paper around the area hoping that whoever is down the hole would walk over them and we would be able to see their paw prints! Can't wait to check next week to see what we've found! Check out our gallery to see pictures of us fishing for moles!

     

    We also managed to have time to paint some rocks for our Covid snake, climb trees, make stick rafts and play games! Today there were diggers working to replace bits of our trim trail. Some of us LOVE watching diggers!

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  • Oak class 4th June 2020

    Published 06/06/20, by Rhiannon Searle

    Forest fun today! some of the children were reenacting the start of the great fire of London. They were asleep in their beds when I took a picture. See if you can spot the photo in the gallery!

    We started to identify some species in our wood and used identification books, cards and swatch books to help us. We particularly liked the 'Poos and clues' swatch book!

    A few children learned how to tie string to secure sticks together and they managed to make stick rafts which they floated in water. There was also lots of tree climbing, rock painting and plate pattern making! A busy day in the woods!

      

     

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