Year 5 have been working hard to maintain and improve our woodland area. A few weeks ago, in the wild wind we sadly lost two of our young oak trees from the hedgerow along the field.  The tree surgeon who came to help tidy up kindly agreed to chop pieces to the size required so that we can use them as a new seating area, both in our woodland, and at the end of the field.   Year 5 and 6 children got stuck in learning how to safely move such massive and heavy pieces of timber, through a mixture of team work, resilience, determination and stone age technology!

Well done Year 5 (and 6!) – the woods look good!

As well as the knotting skills we have been developing in the woods, the children get an opportunity for creative play, often developing and building on games, rules and structures week after week.

The children have built a slide together, practised playing on the swing safely, and built numerous dens/ fortresses for army and imagination games.  They have climbed trees and put knots weve learnt into context, adapting them for building, bows and arrows etc.  They’ve investigated dead bird parts that they found, solving the whodunnit… (it was a sparrowhawk, eating a wood pigeon, under the tree!)