Jenny, who has been training as a Forest School teacher for the last year,
has been talking to the first group of children and getting resources ready
with them for their Forest Schools
sessions. A Forest School is an innovative educational approach to outdoor play
and learning. The philosophy of Forest Schools is to encourage and inspire
individuals of any age through positive outdoor experiences.
For more information on Forest Schools, please look at the link to the right
of this page.
Following the collections, we have been making leaf rubbings with the
leaves, sticking them together to make autumn collages, playing with them in
clay, drawing around them, etc.
Some of the Dolphin children also took a trip to St Mary’s nursery and took
part in some tile making workshops there to make colourful tiles to display in
the children’s bathroom. We’ll take another trip to look at the finished tiles
in December too.
And then there was of course an overload of Halloween activities as well.
Pumpkins made out of paper plates, salt dough cats, witches, houses, pumpkins. Orange
and black paper chains have been strung up…all in preparation for our Halloween
costume party. And the Halloween Day was great fun too. The children were
fantastic and we had all sorts of dressing up, fun and games all day, finished
off with partying in the dark playground at the end of the day with our
Halloween music, disco lights and glowsticks. What a great way to finish
October!
