Welcome to Forest School at Roman Way, 

Mrs Reid and Miss Morgan are our Forest School Practitioners and are committed to the Forest School ethos and supporting all the children at Roman Way to access all the opportunities available to them.

If you wish to understand more about Forest School, what opportunities your child will have as well as how best to support your child please refer to the attached handbook.

We will update the website regularly with timetable of session as well as what we have been up to during our time.

Autumn 1

KS1 - Exploring and relaxing in the environment, building swings, playing team games, expressing ourselves with art and creating bands using natural resources.

KS2 -  We worked towards gaining last few points for our Woodland Trust Gold Award - this included us identifying trees understanding their importance, working out the age of our woodland. Lastly designed a tree champion, an imaginary person or being that would protect the woodland. Once we had designed our champion we set to work to create them using tools and natural resources.

Autumn 2

KS1 - The rain started, which opened the opportunity for lots of mud play, mud kitchen, mud art.....MUD, MUD, MUD!!! Great fun had by all. We managed to fit in the use of tools to make Christmas decoration. We used a bow saw and a palm drill.

KS2- Building shelters and creating our own mini worlds - theme parks, vets, and shops, allowing us to trade items, resources and skills.  We expanded on our tool skills, using a bow saw, palm drills, whittling knives to make reindeers and Christmas puppets

Spring 1

KS1- Started the term by exploring the woodland area, discovering a variety of fungi, animal tracks and possible animal/insect homes.  KS1 have kick-started our road to achieving our Woodland Trust Platinum Award. We have spent the term learning about what lives in UK woodlands.  We categorised a number of animals then choose to focus on the Red Squirrel, Badger, and Tawny Owl. We learnt about where they would live, what they eat and physical adaptations that are key to their survival. 

KS2 - The theme this term was team work. Miss Morgan and Mrs Reid designed three different team games which pushed us to developed all areas of communication and working together. We spent time reflecting on skills, acknowledging our strengths and areas we could improve. After this the children had go and designing their own games and leading them for other to try.