Duke's Forest School

Besides helping each other in the woods, the children made their own stick men figures and helped them to have adventures in the woods.

This term the Y1/2 are going on an adventure into deep space. They have built their rockets and are travelling thousands of miles into the darkest reaches of space; where no man has been before. Who knows where they will end up.

While building their ships there was fantastic team work to move some very large logs.

The children in reception are learning about those that help us. Well this week they have been helpful to the wildlife in the woods, they created little homes for little animals to live in.

Some even had a go on the slack line.

Y6 started to consider how hard it is for animals in the woods. We discussed how humans affect the world negatively and how there is a balance in nature. As birds only build using their beaks, Children then tried building nests just using one hand to get an idea of what a bird goes through.

Children were getting a little crafty this week, making different Christmas themed things, reindeer to Christmas tree decorations. The sessions all enjoyed a festive drink of warm spiced apple juice.

Due to the high winds a few classes had to stay in their classrooms this week. We still had Forest school sessions, but not as they knew it. They worked on different construction challenges, from a geodesic dome to high towers.

The children definitely needed a hot drink and a big fire at the start of the week. The cold start was followed by lots of mini Rudolph’s appearing which the children all took home.

Y5/6 have been assessing the average age of the woodland to see whether it would be used for building or if it would be better to leave it a few more years. They came to the conclusion it was roughly 30 years old and would be better left to mature.

Y3/4 were creating their own temples for the Sun God Ra. They were thinking how to use the golden leaves for decoration. Sometimes even including leaf showers and toasting marshmallows.