Northop Hall C.P. School
Forest school
WELCOME TO FOREST SCHOOL
What is Forest School?
Forest School is a child centred, inspirational learning process, that offers opportunities for holistic growth through regular sessions.
it is a long-term program that supports play, exploration and supported risk taking. It develops confidence and self-esteem through learner inspired, hands on experiences in a natural setting.
The benefits of forest school are ;
1. Building confidence and independence
2. Motivation
3. Communication skills
4. Health benefits
5. Self-awareness
6. Learning by experience
7. Exposure to manageable risk
8. Social skills
9. Physical skills including the development of both gross and fine motor skills.
Forest school is run by a qualified forest school practitioner
Miss Gunther
Nursery and Reception
4/2/25
We have been looking for Percy the park keepers animal friends
RECEPTION
Today we have been making reindeer food and looking for magic stars in the forest
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YEAR 1
We have been making reindeer food
Today it’s been a very wet day but we had sooooooo much fun
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YEAR 1
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Today the children have been making aliens in the forest with paint and the rest decided to have free choice
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RECEPTION
Today we have finished off our handprint trees
Today we have been finishing off THE HUNGRY CATERPILLAR story and having fun in the forest .
We have been reading THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
Fun in the forest
YEAR 2
Today the Year 2 children have been caring for their little egg, each child had an egg to look after all day. They were amazing , well done.
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YEAR 1
TOPIC-MINIBEASTS
The children have been looking at worms
do they have eyes?
how do the feel?
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Year 1
27/10/23
Making some pumpkins and having fun in the forest ,
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YEAR 1
Today we have been having fun in the rain
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Year 1
Today the children have been doing some environmental art.
The children have loved using leaves to do some printing
Tool skills were amazing �� well done Year 1
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YEAR 1
We have been having a great time in the forest .
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WELCOME TO FOREST SCHOOL
YEAR 2
16th November 2023
Today the children have been building a tower made of sticks, and two children helped Miss Gunther to build a den using a drill
WELL DONE
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Floating our cork rafts
will they float or sink?
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Year 3
2023-2024
Cork raft making 
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Year 3
Today we have been making a fairy garden and boats
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Year 5
2021-2022
15.2.22
Children have been building a stick tower but they were tied together so teamwork is the key.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
YEAR 5
Teamwork and fairy fires
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Today we explored the pond and made a wall.
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23.11.21
Den building
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16.11.21
Fun in the forest
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2nd November 2021
Over the next few weeks the children are very busy making things in the forest for Christmas out of wood they are doing a fantastic job. There wont be any photos on this page as i don't want to spoil the surprise for you, the children are using drills., saws, hammers and knives to make a super surprise for a Christmas gift.
19.10.21
Today we had a nice fire with some treats.
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Waterproofs are great for games like this
12.10.21
Today the children went in groups to build a free standing den that was waterproof
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Week 5
Today we did some topic work in the forest, in small groups we made stretchers
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21.9.21
Topic into the forest
today the children wanted to make some planes.
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Building teamwork skills
Climbing trees and some problem solving in the forest
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First Forest school
Today was a free choice day for Year 5 children
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Year 6
2021-2022
First week for Year 6
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Fun in the forest
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Year 1
Fire day
Last school day of 2020
Merry Christmas Year 1
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Reception
15.12.20
Fire day
Today the Reception children have been learning about the fire in the forest, special gloves the we wear and how to use flint and steel.
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Year 3
11.12.20
FIRE DAY
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Year 6
9.12.20
Year 6 pupils have been brain storming in groups to design and build a chair in the forest . The only items they were given were scissors , pencil and a small ball of string.
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Reception
Reception children had a fantastic time playing in the mud today.
We had a visit from the elves and made some snowmen.
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Having fun in the mud.
forest school session welcome and encourage the children to be free and have fun in the forest as long as they are in waterproof clothing
Miss Gunther and some of the Reception children found a nice muddy puddle.
Nursery
The children had a visit from the elves who were playing hide and seek before we got into the forest today.
We have been very busy making handprint Christmas trees and building a sleigh we has so much fun.
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Year 3
Having fun in the forest making trees,building a shop and bug hunting
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Year 1
2.12.20
Today we had some little visitors in the forest
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Year 3
Friday 27.11.20
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Year 6
25.11.20
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Year 2
26.11.20
Clay animals and leaf rubbing and plenty of free choice.
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Nursery
23.11.20
Find the baby ducks
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Year 1
The children have been having fun and getting dirty in the forest.We have been making leaf wands and doing some leaf rubbings.
18.11.20
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Reception
17th November 2020
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Nursery
Today the children have been making shapes, size ordering and plenty of free play.
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Reception
Leaf hats
Reception have been looking at different leaf patterns and then they made hats out of the leaves.
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Nursery
Nursery have had a lovely afternoon in the forest and we also had our snack in the forest.
Year 2
bug hunt
12.11.20
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Year 1
Leaf Identification
Essential knowledge and understanding of Flora and Fauna.
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RECEPTION
First day in Forest School.
Today the children have been learning some rules to themselves safe.
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WELOCOME NURSERY
Today Nursery have been painting their hands to go on our Forest School display.
The children had so much fun exploring the forest and going over some forest school rules.
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Year 4
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YEAR 5
TEAMWORK
Today has been all about teamwork.
The year 5 children discussed the best way to design and build a stretcher strong enough to hold a child from their group.
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Year 2
Today the children have been looking for hazards around the forest.
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Year 1
Year 1 have been making bobble hats.
We had lots of fun making these.
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September 2019-July 2020
Year 6 Mallet making and surprise
11.3.20
A massive thank you to Year 6 for the lovely birthday surprise ,you all worked really hard to keep it a secret .
We have been learning about how to use tools safely to make a mallet.
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Year 2 10.3.20
kazoo making-knowledge and understanding of using tools
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Year 6 Group 2 26.2.20
Year 6 have been playing some trust games and making a water area for the infants ( work in progress)
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Year 2 Group 1 25.2.20
All the children have been very busy today
We have been playing trust games, building free standing gnome homes and using nail art
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Year 3 & 4 31.1.20
RSPB Bird watch
Over the next few weeks the children will be learning about all the different kinds of birds that we can find in the forest and gardens.
This week they have learnt how hard it is to be a bird, the children were tied to a partner and they had to use their communication and teamwork skills and by only using one hand to build their nest.
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Year 3 & 4
Today the children have been on a welsh scavenger hunt around the forest
Well done everyone
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Year 3 & 4
The children had a visit from some special little elves today.
The children played some team building games, made some homes for the elves and made some snowflakes.
Team building games
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Year 6
The year 6 children have been planting some team building games.
The woodland Trust kindly donated some trees for our forest , the children have been planting and cleaning up the forest
WELL DONE YEAR 6
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Year 2 3.12.19
V.I.P and bookmarks
Children have been enjoying the forest
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Year 3, Week 1, Group 2
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Year 2 Week 1
Fingerprints on out friendship tree and making Christmas trees
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Year 2
Tuesday afternoon 15th October 2019
FEAST IN THE FOREST
Year 3 & 4
Week 6 18th October 2019
Playing in the water
Year 4 & 4 Friday afternoon 18th October 2019
Fun in the forest
Fire with biscuits, marshmallows and hot chocolate
Year 3 & 4 Week 6
Leaf spotting and using hand drills to drill holes in conkers
Year 3 & 4 Forest school 11th October 2019
Fun in the forest 8th October 2019
Year 2 Leaf spotting
Year 2 children have been detectives today looking for leaves in our forest., they were able to match the leaves to a colour chart.
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Year 3 and 4
4th October 2019
Today in forest school we have been playing teambuilding and problem solving games.
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Year 2 Group 1
1st October 2019
Today in forest school the children have enjoyed den building, conker painting and lighting fairy fires
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Welcoming our parents to forest school
At the end of last term, July 2019, parents of children in Year 3 and Year 4 were invited in to experience Forest School for themselves. Great fun was had by all.
