Autumn Forest School
As we get ready to start the Winter term at St Mary's I wanted to look back at how amazing the children have been with their enthusiasm for our outdoor learning during the Autumn months despite the colder weather.
We have enjoyed creating some natural bunting through the Japanese art of Hapa…
Green fingers
We have had a very productive week this week at St Mary’s in our vegetable plot and poly tunnel. The children have worked really hard preparing the the beds for a new growing season with lots of weeding, raking and topping up the beds with topsoil. A great start to the term with lots of teamwork…
A Hammock and a Hedgehog ramp
We have had lot's of fun in the last few weeks of outdoor learning at St Mary's. We have enjoyed using our new hammock which has been fantastic for developing our gross motor skills, communication skills, social skills, mindfulness and of course lots of fun too!
We have cared for our amazing…
Minibeasts and Leaf Identification
We have been celebrating our love of the flora and fauna within our beautiful grounds at St Mary's over the last few weeks. The children have enjoyed hunting for Minibeasts, painting stone ladybirds, making their own leaf ID wheels and have been discovering the amazing variety of trees we have…
Hedgehog friendly
At St Mary's we are still working hard towards our Hedgehog Friendly school award. The children have written letters to our neighbours asking permission to place Hedgehog highways in our shared fences and luckily our lovely neighbours kindly agreed. So we have been busy making the holes and…
Jubilee
We have been creating nature inspired items this week for our St Mary's Jubilee celebrations. Class One made beautiful nature crowns and Class 2 and 3 created fantastic Jubilee flags with sticks and wool.
Wildflower seeds and hedgehogs
Continuing our theme of hedgehogs the children in Class 3 have enjoyed getting messy making seed bombs. Class 2 helped to plant wildflower seeds in our Forest school site and these flowers will be very beneficial to local wildlife including any local hedgehogs. Class 1 showed lot's of perseverance…
Hedgehog Awareness week
This week the children have been learning all about hedgehogs. We have been making seed bombs to help create wildflower areas for the hedgehogs habitats. We have made hedgehogs out of clay and natural materials. The children listened to an assembly all about helping our hedgehogs and have learnt…
Hedgehogs and ducks!
We have had a lovely start to the new term learning all about Hedgehogs in the build up to Hedgehog awareness week which starts today and runs until the 7th of May. Class One have made some very cute hedgehogs out of pinecones and the older children have helped assess our school site to see how we…
Outdoor learning in the sunshine
We have been enjoying the Spring sunshine during all our outdoor learning this week. The children have been very creative making items for our outdoor worship area. Class One enjoyed making tiny crosses with sticks and wool. Also lot's more fun occurred in the mud kitchen, we even found a nest in…
