Linked to Y1s science learning, 1B went exploring around our school grounds doing their best noticing to establish which season we’re in currently.

Can you guess from the pictures below what they concluded?

(Varun was noticing so closely he ended up with raindrops on his face!)

What season are we in? How do you know? What do you notice?

What brings you joy in this season? What sparks a sense of awe and wonder?

Email your observations (photos/pictures/videos/poems/writing) to forestschool@allertonceprimary.com to share on the Forest School blog and with your class.

We can’t wait to see what you notice! ? ?

Y6 were outside for their science lesson identifying trees in the school grounds from their leaves.  The leaves were then used to create a classification key.

Last week in the pouring rain, Y4 road-tested our new outdoor classroom, where we played a variety of listening games.

This week we upped the challenge by setting them off in threes to navigate our willows woodland, blindfolded! The ultimate test of giving, receiving and following instructions.

We even tested Mrs Howard’s listening skills, who was very surprised to discover where we’d led her while she was blindfolded.

Great job Y4, be sure to put your new listening skills into practice back in the classroom!

Thanks to some real hard graft by our Forest School Rangers (plus all the friends roped in) you’ll see our new tunnel is really taking shape!

It is still cordoned off with the barriers for now, as we are patiently waiting for the roots of our recycled turf to take a firm hold onto the 8 tonnes of soil.

In this hot weather Jack is keeping it well watered to give the turf the best chance to thrive in its new environment.

We hope that the tunnel will be ready for all to enjoy from our new term in September.

There were a lot of puzzled looks when it was announced to 4K that they would be completing a biodiversity audit for their forest school activity! After some good discussion we got it figured out though, and could make a start with the help of our iPads and the ‘Seek’ app.

We can confidently feedback that our school grounds are absolutely bursting with biodiversity! Lots of badges were earned within the Seek app which made us very proud.

You could ask an adult if you can download Seek onto a device at home, and see how biodiverse your local area is? Let us know if you manage to earn some badges, send an email to forestschool@allertonceprimary.com. Happy Seeking!

Flick through the slideshow above to see some of our finds, and also an example from the Seek app.

You might remember the blog post from April (link below) where Jack and Hugo were sowing wild flower seeds behind our Y2/3 building.

What a difference 3 months later – the area is now bursting with colour from our beautiful wild flower meadow! The bees were certainly enjoying the flowers as I took these photos.. ?

We have challenged our teachers across school to make the most of the summer term weather and our fabulous school grounds, and to take lessons outside!

Mrs Amblin was the first to respond to the challenge, and judging by the smiles on these faces it looks like it was a very enjoyable lesson for 2A!

Not to be out done by their older counterparts, the KS1 rangers took up the spades today to further progress ‘Project Tunnel’. We were so impressed with their hard work, great job guys!

Today our KS2 rangers started work on an exciting building project, creating what will be a natural tunnel at the end of our trim trail.

They worked really hard this afternoon, with lots of shovelling and stamping! Check out their progress so far…