28th May 2022
This week was the culmination of all the skills and fun they have had over the year.
The children collected wood and then lay and lit the...
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20th May 2022This week the Year 4 were challenged to whittle mushrooms using knives and secateurs. This is a difficult task, especially using the new... -
12th May 2022Our focus for the next few weeks is whittling green wood. Today's task was to make their very own Gnome. This started with processing the ...
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8th May 2022We have several pairs of nesting Blue Tits at school, and one pair has done a fantastic job of hatching 7 chicks!! We will aim to keep yo...
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28th April 2022This week Year 4 got stuck into a Spring clean down at the Rainbow Fence with new signs, weeding the raspberries, planting strawberries, a...
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11th February 2022This week we used the knot skills of lashing and frapping along with a few Clove Hitches to make Triangles. Of the many successes ...
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4th February 2022Year 4 are honing their knot tying skills every week, with the children using them regularly to make dens and zip lines. Often with clear ...
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28th January 2022As well as Risky play and developing Resilience we often focus on mindfulness and being at one with the natural surroundings. One of the ...
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21st January 2022We made 2 amazing animal discoveries this week. Firstly we found a frog hidden in the leaf litter and then we uncovered an active mole hol...
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14th January 2022One of the tools we learnt to use this week was the Bow Saw. The children worked in pairs to safely cut wood cookies that they could then ...
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7th January 2022As year 4 had not been out behind the Rainbow Fence before we began by looking for all the potential hazards around our site and then esta...
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18th June 2021Holly class had a fantastic, but wet, day at Chesworth farm. We enjoyed finding bugs in the woods and pond dipping. The children had a gre...