Forest School  Class 6

Autumn 2026

Week 1

We were so excited this morning for our first Forest School day. The weather was dry so we could explore the garden and play games on the field. We also sang our forest school song!

What a great day we all had! Here is what we got up to…

As part of our Science learning, we learnt how to classify objects into ‘Living, Dead and Never alive’- did you know that to be a living thing it needs to grow, eat and breathe! We loved looking for things that were living, dead and never alive, we found lots of exciting things.

Mrs Platts also helped us to name and identify some of the different trees in the school garden. We ticked off the ones we could find including an Oak tree, Silver Birch and Sycamore. Mrs Platts told us lots of ways we can identify different trees throughout the 4 seasons. We then demonstrated our knowledge of trees when playing the woodcutter game.

In Art we used clay to make coil pots with Barry and Neville. We collected natural materials from the garden and used these to decorate our pots. We took inspiration from the Sheffield Artist Penny Withers.

With Mrs Leaf we made a chocolate courgette cake as part of our DT work. We talked about healthy and unhealthy foods. We measured ingredients, mixed them and learnt how to safely use the graters. It was really yummy!