EYFS – Forest Schools – 14.11.24

It has been a delightfully sunny Autumn day for our fortnightly Forest Schools session and the children have relished being out in the school garden. Before heading out we read Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Gruffalo’ and talked about the different types of homes the animals made in the woods. Taking inspiration from this, we looked at how we could build homes for some woodland animal toys using sticks, leaves, logs and twine. So we got ourselves ready and took some animal toys (sadly, health and safety precludes us from using live snakes and foxes) up to the school garden where the children got to work in small groups. There was some fantastic teamwork and lots of creative thinking going on as the boys and girls worked on constructing their animal homes. 

As it was such a beautiful day, the children also enjoyed some time to use the various apparatus and mud kitchen in the sun. We also stopped for a very fun game of ‘Stuck-in-the-mud’ tig on the field and spent time looking at home elongated our shadows were with the sun shining so low in the sky.