Making our own crowns “But I must gather knots of flowers and buds, and garlands gay; For I ’m to be Queen o’ the May,” (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Mr Garley Year6IJS year3ijs Year 4 IJS

They love getting out the oil pastels, I love seeing what they have created. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

Learning to use a knife, but first we start with a potato peeler in order to master the basic skills. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

This week on the tree was all about pushing yourself to go that little bit higher or just see if you could hang upside down! Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

Making wands and beads out of their whittled sticks. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

Last Friday at Forest school was all about tree climbing and camp fires, especially the camp fire. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

Time for the gooey portrait…The Jaffa Cake s’more’s will go down in history! Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

And after eating your fill of s’more’s why not climb the tree👍🏻 Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

After a week of sats what could be better than to just chill out in front of the campfire 🔥 Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

The magic of finding yourself surrounded by a cloud of Damselflies. Mr Garley Year 4 IJS year3ijs

They loved having a go at making their own fire lighters this week using pencil shavings (thank you Mrs Godfrey), Vaseline and a little bit of cotton wool. They worked brilliantly! Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS

Climbing a tree is always guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS

Making nature bracelets, exploring texture and colour. Mr Garley year3ijs

They definitely had to get their thinking caps on this week as they tried to solve the problem of The Farmer, The Chicken, The Fox and The Grain. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

The natural order of knife craft, start on a potato peeler, then move up to using a knife then learn to carve your own butter knife. Mr Garley year3ijs Year 4 IJS Year6IJS

When having whittled your stick it becomes a magic wand 🪄 Mr Garley Year6IJS year3ijs Year 4 IJS

We were joined by Mrs Richardson’s daughter this week so we had a little sketching master class. Mr Garley Year6IJS year3ijs Year 4 IJS

Well it might have been hot across the country, we were perfectly chilled at Forest School. Where else can you sit in a tree and read a book! Mr Garley Year6IJS Year 4 IJS year3ijs

Baking bananas with chocolate buttons was definitely a team thing from working together to gather wood, get the fire going, helping each other with preparing their bananas and cooking them. Mr Garley Year6IJS year3ijs Year 4 IJS

A big thank you to Mrs Frost who had her first experience of Forest School today, we hope she enjoyed it 👍🏻