Forest school! Hawthorn

Yesterday the children had their first sessions of forest school of the year! The children were absolutely brilliant. The children worked well together to complete their activities. All staff commented how well behaved the children were during their time at forest school. The children were able to to learn how Read more…

Nature hunt for RE

Today in RE, we discussed how Christians believe that God created the world and all of the fantastic things you can find in nature. We went down to our forest school area and carried out a nature hunt. We talked about which amazing nature find was our favourite and why.

Forest Church

Today we had a fantastic first forest church session with Reverend Kirsty and Reverend Kirsten. The session was after school and parents joined in too. The children and their families explored the area looking for things that reminded them of their life journey. Everyone then created some fabulous artwork. One Read more…

This week, Year 4 Hawthorn enjoyed their first forest school session.  They went down to the forest school area and created flower bombs.

Forest art

The children enjoyed exploring nature and producing some fantastic art. They found a stick and practised measuring lengths of wool. The children then practised tying knots to fasten the wool onto the stick. The children showed fantastic resilience and didn’t give up. They are going to use their creations as Read more…

Forest school

This week the children really enjoyed the return of our forest school sessions. They had a fun, and very muddy, afternoon exploring the forest school area. They created their own artwork and found the biggest worm we have ever seen 😄

Year 2 forest school

This week Year 2 Ash combined their science topic about habitats with our forest school session. We created our very own wormery in a bottle using sand, compost, dead leaves and grass. The children collected lots of worms to put inside and then used the natural materials as well as Read more…