In our latest Forest School session we were inspired by our recent visit from Eco Drama group. Through drama we learned all about worms, particularly what they like to eat! 
At Forest School we decided to use the materials in the park and food sources for worms in the environment to create our very own Worm Cafè. Korin quite rightly pointed out the people have the Dandelion Cafè so let’s make a worm cafè! 🐛
Please find below the rota for parent helpers at Forest School sessions.
We would like to take the time to thank all of the parents and grandparents who have volunteered to help out at sessions, it is much appreciaited.
| Session | Session Leaders | Supporting Adults |
| Friday 19th May | Miss Lindsay | Miss Brown
A Friel L Gurevitz S MacInnes |
| Friday 9th June | Miss Dunn | Miss Lindsay
A Friel |
| Friday 16th June | Miss Lindsay | Miss Dunn
R Edgar S MacInnes C Byrne N Hollyman |
Within our Forest School session on Friday Miss Dunn gave some groups a problem solving challenge! The groups had to make it from one side of the pitch (which we pretended was shark infested waters!) to the otjernusing only the stepping stones provided.
To start with we were all in a muddle but we soon got the hang of it by communicating our ideas with our classmates.
Miss Dunn then made it harder by taking away some of the stepping stones. That one required a bit more trial and error to complete!
Primary 1 were excited to hear that there are little robin chicks in the nursery garden. We tracked how quickly they have grown and Isaac was concerned there would not be enough room in the nest for all of them soon.
We decided to make our own larger nests for the robins using natural material from Forest Schools. We had some great justification for our answers.
Alice made hers using twigs as that would be familiar to the chicks because their current nest has twigs and sticks.
Zac and Ian considered safety from predators by cameoflauging their nest with the surrounding environment.
We walked around everyone’s nests discussing the great qualities in them and practiced giving constructive feedback to our peers.
Primary 1 will be continuing their Forest Schools sessions into Term 3.
Forest Schools Sessions will take place on the following dates:
We require one parent helper for the sessions to go ahead. Please indicate on the return slip in your child’s bag if you can support a session.
Our Term 2 Forest School has begun and we got a lovely day for it!
Primary 1 and Mrs Watson will be investigating Living and Non Living things as part of our Science topic through Forest Schools.
The new Forest Schools timetable for term 2 can be found below:
Thank you to all the parents who offered support for sessions in Term 1!
Have a look at some of our favourite moments from Forest Schools Term 1 below:
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