Week 2 Apple Class

T his afternoon, our Year 3 children enjoyed a wonderful Forest School session in the sunshine. We started with an important job—helping to carry down some brand-new storage kindly bought by Mrs Yardley. The boxes were a bit awkward (but not heavy!), and after trying a few different methods, the children worked brilliantly together and balanced them on the trolley—great teamwork! Once in the woodland, we talked about how it’s changed over time and reminded ourselves of our special nature names. We played some fun games to reinforce our fire circle rules, then headed off to explore. Some children went bug hunting, others created beautiful woodland people, and everyone got stuck in with creativity and curiosity. A highlight of the day was learning how to use the Flint and steel to make sparks the children showed high levels of determination and resilience as this was not an easy task!  We also played two favourite games—Otter, Mosquito, Salmon and the hilarious Flying Carpet game w...