Reception celebrated 🌍Earth Day🌍 by reading the story 'Dear Earth'. We learnt that if we make just little changes to our daily life we can become much more environmentally friendly. We had fun making these nature planet Earth's! 🌍💚 #EarthDay2023 #forestschool #ShineAtShelf

Reception have enjoyed taking their dinosaur topic outside. We've made fossils, made dinosaur swaps and been archaeologist! 🦖🦖🦖🦖#ShineAtShelf

A fab afternoon with our KS1 after-school club. We celebrated the kings coronation by making flower crowns, jewellery with elder wood and made union jack sticks. The children had so much fun! 🇬🇧♥️#forestschool #kingscoronation2023 #ShineAtShelf

A great after-school club in the mud today! The children went home with big smiles on their faces! 💚🌿 #forestschool #ShineAtShelf

💛🐝🖤Happy World Bee Day!🖤🐝💛 Reception celebrated by learning all about bees and why they are so important to us. We did an experiment which taught us all about pollination!

Today KS2 made bow and arrows! So simple and easy to do but such good fun! 🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹🏹#ShineAtShelf #forestschool

Reception have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. We flew a butterfly kite and made stick caterpillars. 🦋🐛 #ShineAtShelf

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Today's after-school club was one of the BEST! The children absolutely loved searching for minibeasts but snails came up on top. The children (and snails) were so confident! We even named one Amy the snail! 🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌🐌#ShineAtShelf

Receptions Outdoor Learning lesson was a hit today! We searched for minibeasts and read information books about them. We found so many! Until we found a special bug that we hadn't seen before. After researching we found out it was a baby ladybird 🐞#ShineAtShelf

🌻Look at our beautiful sunflowers!🌻 Last year's reception class planted these in the spring! They're making the children and staff smile lots today! 🌻#ShineatShelfs

🍅🫛🎃Our allotment is flourishing!🎃🫛🍅🎃 KS2 children planted these in the Spring! I can't wait for the children to see how much they have grown! ❤️ #ShineAtShelf

Here are some of our lovely fruit and veg the KS2 children planted in the spring! #ShineAtShelf

Here's our little friend we found in the pond today! Isn't he cute! 💚🐸 He loved jumping around the playground and reception class! 😂#ShineAtShelf

This week in receptions outdoor learning lesson we talked about sea pollution. We read the story called Odd Fish, who is really a plastic bottle. We then headed out litter picking. The children loved making a difference. #ShineAtShelf

After school club kicked off this week with some skill building. The year 3 and 4 children made dens. They looked fab. #ShineAtShelf

Reception and KS1 forest school group have made these super spooky chocolate apple slices! Very yummy! #ShineAtShelf

Reception have enjoyed some pumpkin fun in their outdoor learning session. Using golf tees and a hammer, we then made shapes with the elastic bands. 🎃 #ShineAtShelf

❤️🖤After school clubs forest school poppies were amazing! 🖤❤️ #ShineAtShelf