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In September, our school was asked to take part in a promotional video for Wilder Kent Awards. Please take a look at the video!
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Year 1, Week 1
Posted: Nov 14, 2021 by: Tara (Tara) on: Forest Blog
The children are already working towards their badges: gentle hands, scratches and scrapes and dirty knees.
Being pooed on by a chicken is indeed good luck, everybody agreed, laughing!
As the leaves of the deciduous sycamore tree fall into the shelter area, the children worked really well together collecting them to use in a few years as leaf mould on the trees and shrubs.
The compost from our hot box was ready to use and the children learned about bulbs and how their scales contain the food, so that they can survive in adverse conditions.
Flowering cyclamen was planted for immediate colour, bulbs for spring and early summer and sweet williams for summer.
The flowers have definitely brightened the place up!
This term we will also be learning more about our senses and learning from nature to help us develop our skills such as: deer ears and owl eyes, the fox walk and sit spot as well as developing our language skills.
