September 2012

Today we made bread with cheese,whittled our sticks for marshmallows using knifes and potato peelers and made seed bombs with local clay.

Putting our fire out.

Rolling our clay seed balls.

Toasting marshmallows

Whittling with a knife using a safe position.

Some of our seed bombs.

August 2012

NEW DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

The Saturday Club will start up again on each first Saturday of the month starting the 1st of September - for 5 year olds and up.


The October Holiday club will be on Friday and Saturday the 19th and 20th of October for 6 year olds and up for 3 hours.
10 to 1 pm

£15.00 per session - rather than the usual £10.00.

July 2012

 SUMMER FOREST SCHOOL - WEEK 2

Making dens, walking on a tightrope, playing games, tug of war, making clay animals and toasting marshmallows.

Today we made dens again and had another snail race with the largest snail being the winner. We had a tug of war and curled up into tiny snails and had our own race to see who could be the last to get to the edge of the rope.

We went for a short walk and looked at colours in nature and tried to make pigments out of mud and plants. We are going to try to do this with gum arabic in future so that it stains. paper.

July 2012

SUMMER CAMP - WEEK 1

This week we have been making dens, cooking popcorn over an open fire, learnt some knots and kept a diary of what we have done. We climbed and played with rope as well as making spiders webs.

On the day it rained we had snail and slug race and walked through the woods to find various insects.

The group got on really well and we hope to see them again. Thanks again to Sally for helping.

JULY 2012

July Summer sessions are fully booked now apart from the 1st of August Where we have 2 spaces left. We are happy to put you on a reserve list for our October holiday sessions.

Our new holiday sessions will be for 5 years and up.
These will start up again on September the 1st.

JUNE 2012

Today we did some Happa Zoming - a type of printing using leaves and flowers collected in the woods. We all took turns making a film which will be edited and posted here soon  . . .

We made popcorn again and made flags with our prints to play a game with. We also had fun building a den.

Thanks again to Sally and Meika for their support and help. 

We will be having a break in July and August from our Saturday club as we are running our summer club then. The dates are the 23rd, 24th and 25th of July as well as the 30th, 31st and 1st of August. 

There are still a few spaces available. Please see our main website for details.

May 2012

SATURDAY CLUB

Today was a lovely day. There were many challenges and all the children enjoyed this. We practised walking on a fallen beech tree and then we walked on a rope. 

There was lots of co-operation and helping each other to balance and stay up.

We made popcorn and tried to make small willow baskets. Meika came to volunteer with us which was a great help.

 We saw millipedes and a daddylonglegs!!.

We made minibeast faces with our clay on trees.

We loved our popcorn and we painted on trees using charcoal left over from the fire.

We also went on a minibeast hunt and found two amazing red spiders that looked as if they were made of velvet!

APRIL 2012

The Easter Club

Today we painted easter eggs, went on an easter egg hunt and best of all walked on a tightrope. Everyone was really into doing this. Some of us fed the kelly kettle and we had hot ribena when the water had heated up inside the kettle.We also played hide and seek and hid behind some big old trees.

MARCH 2012

Easter Forest School - Day 2

We made nests with one hand and in pairs to see if our eggs would hold in them. We played music with our gazoos and baked lovely bread on our sticks. Some of us really enjoyed making knots and others wanted to look for squirrels. It was a lovely day although a bit cold so we sat round the fire.

New training date on the 12 the of May from 10-12.30 for any volunteers helping us with our Forest School.

SUMMER DATES

New dates for Summer

July the 23rd, 24th,and 25th of July from 10 am - midday
for 4-9 years

July the 30th, 31st and 1st of August from 10 am - midday for 4-9 years

£10.00 per child per session.

MARCH 2012

 

We looked at birds, trying to listen to them quietly counting how many we could hear without looking.We made some bird feeders rolling pinecones in peanut butter and seeds and hung them in the trees to see if any birds came to feed, I think we were a bit too noisy!

Thanks again to Benjamin a student training to be a teacher, to Sally and to Anna for helping out today.

 

Booked in to the 20th anniversary of FEI being held in maybe forest. Please see the FOREST EDUCATION INITIATIVE for more information.

FEBRUARY 2012

It was rather cold today but the children managed really well. They made little minibeasts out of clay, used a flint to make a small fire, roasted marshmallows and walked through the woods in the rain!

 

 

We are roasting marshmallows and making animals. 

 

We really like using the charcoal left went we put our fire out.

 

We like to use our knife for whittling.

 

We are making minibeasts while we get a story read to us.