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Mellor Community Primary School

Forest School

Forest School offers children the opportunity to succeed and develop confidence and self-esteem through hands-on learning experiences in an outdoor/woodland environment. Children engage in motivating and achievable tasks and activities throughout the year and in almost all weathers, with the appropriate footwear and clothing. Children will explore nature and work with natural materials, learn to use a range of tools, build dens and shelters, light fires, prepare and cook food and contribute to maintaining and developing the Forest School site.

Forest School sessions at Mellor Community Primary School will encourage children of all ages to:

  • explore the world through all the senses available to them
  • work independently and in collaboration with others
  • work through practical problems and challenges
  • use tools and equipment to create, build, transport or manage
  • develop practical knowledge and skills, e.g. knot-tying, shelter building
  • learn how to manage failures and develop resilience
  • build confidence in decision making and evaluating risk
  • explore connections between humans, wildlife and the earth
  • improve physical motor skills

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Autumn Term 23/24 - Forest School Update

At the beginning of Year 6, we each wrote an application to become a Forest School Champion and Beccy invited the 12 applicants to an outdoor session on 5.09.23 to demonstrate our interest in Forest School activities. Beccy selected us because of our good communication skills as well as our curiosity and helpfulness.

Our first training day (12.09.23) was very rainy but we wore the right clothing and enjoyed our session. We were taught to instruct others when pond-dipping by demonstrating how to use the net and how to empty your catch safely causing no harm to the pond-life. We practised tying a clove hitch knot. We also began our sharp-tool training by learning Tool Talks for using secateurs and loppers. We took home laminated tool-talk and clove-hitch/square lashing sheets to practise these for our next session.

Following our first training session, we assisted Beccy with classes from Years 4, 5 and 6, supporting pupils in pond-dipping and gardening during their Forest School sessions. In our next training session on 7.11.23 we are looking forward to continuing our work with sharp tools and will hopefully demonstrate the knot-tying we have been learning.

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Click here if you would like to find out more about Forest School. Click here to learn more about the birds and wildlife you may spot in our city and countryside.

Click here to identify and learn more about Bristish trees and shrubs.

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