Forging ahead in Forest School

 Primary 1 are really beginning to blossom during their Monday afternoon Forest school sessions.

Staff have worked hard to provide a wide range of creative and engaging activities for a the pupils and a big effort has been made to promote collaboration and tolerance when they are working and learning in the Forest School area. 

This week, there were a few tentative hands dipping into the Mud Kitchen area. But by the end of the session, the gloves were off (so to speak) and the pupils were really embracing the messy looseness of the topic!

Another activity staged at the far end of the Forest School was shelter building. The pupils were given a check list of materials and with this random assortment they were tasked with constructing a shelter which would fend off the worst of the elements. A test was made at the completion of their effort where a hosepipe was trained briefly on the shelter with them inside.

This elicited quite an excitable response from all involved.