Year 3 – Forest School – Session 1

This morning’s Forest School session was a wonderful success despite the cold weather. The children showed fantastic resilience and enthusiasm, embracing the wintry conditions with big smiles and lots of curiosity. They particularly loved exploring the ice, shattering it into smaller pieces and mixing it into their imaginative mud kitchen creations.

For our main activity, everyone had a turn at sawing their own wood cookies, which will form the main part of a whirly gig toy. The children also used hand drills to create handles for their whirly gigs, developing both confidence and fine motor skills. We will be putting these whirly gigs together in our next Forest School session, which the children are already looking forward to.

Alongside this, the children enjoyed a range of self-led activities, including using a large piece of cardboard as a slide down the bank, drawing and writing on the homemade wooden chalkboards, playing with the homemade noughts and crosses, and taking part in a scavenger hunt. It was a busy, creative, and joyful morning in the forest, full of exploration, teamwork, and learning through play.