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We began our session thinking about nesting birds, how many are now busy starting to build their nests. Working with hay and materials found around our area, we made our own ones and explored our forest school site for a good nest locations.

As class 4 are exploring continents, we foraged for fresh spring greens and created an Asian inspired stir fry with noodles. We made chopsticks from hazel to eat them with. There was also some work carried out around the stream.

Today was particularly wet and windy so we started our forest school session off kite-making in the classroom. Then, as the weather improved, we were able to take them outside and fly them on the playground.

Due to the extreme weather, we stayed inside for Forest School today.  We played a few games in the barn before heading back to the classroom for a craft activity.

Keeping with a Christmas theme, we filled the room with the scents of oranges and spices as we pressed cloves into the fruit. These were then tied with wool and ribbon and given  a dusting of cinnamon. Pomanders made, the lovely Christmassy aromas could be taken home.

Due to the tail end of a storm year 4s stayed at school today. Fun was still had as we made light lanterns for the winter solstice.

Today in Forest School we had a Christmas feel. We started by playing ‘hide the presents’ around the playing field. Next we went on to our Forest School area where we discussed the Christmas story before making up our own nativity scene. Everyone got to choose what they made. We had a few kings,  a lot of camels and of course the baby Jesus was popular.