Coningsby St Michael's Church of England Primary School

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Moles

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This school year we will be working on our Sycamore Tree Wild passport levels.

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24th April 2024

Mole class had a wonderful Forest School session today, some of the children had a go at happazome, the Japanese art of leaf printing, to create some lovely Spring leaf pictures. They were very excited to see the new addition to our woodland site, a mud kitchen area! They quickly made themselves busy here, using our mud kitchen recipe idea cards to mix up so marvellous mud cookies, stews and smoothies. Moles also created some detailed insect homes, including the very first CSM bug elevator!

17th April 2024

In Forest School today Mole class enjoyed seeing the seasonal changes in our woodland site. They created some wonderful homes for the insects they could see and learnt about the different species using our lovely Usbourne nature books. Some of the children enjoyed playing with the nature snap cards and others created some beautiful bees using pine cones, wool and leaves.

13th December 2023

In Forest School today mole class were set some Christmas themed challenges, they were given a scavenger hunt full of natural items such as something white like mistletoe berries. Once they completed this they were then challenged to collect sticks and natural items like pine cones to create their own natural Christmas trees. The children all loved these challenges and had lots of fun collecting their items and creating their beautiful Christmas trees.

29th November 2023
This morning was very cold and icy so to keep warm mole class played lots of teams games on the field to keep moving, we played stuck in the ice and four corners using our new tree identification knowledge.

22nd November 2023

Today in Forest School mole class played lots of team games to keep warm, they especially enjoyed ‘stuck in the ice’. Moles were then able to create some happazome leaf art, collecting different coloured leaves and using a hammer to transfer the dye from the leaves onto a piece of paper, this created some beautiful pictures and the children made interesting observations about which coloured leaves made the best prints. Moles also enjoyed using the archery set and creating nature soups and teas with conkers and pine cones.

15th November 2023

Today in Forest School mole class explored our new insect hotel, created pine cone sculptures and nature soup as well as playing team games.

8th November 2023

Today Mole class played lots of games to keep warm on this wet and windy day, we started with a Forest School version of four corners, using trees as our bases. We then moved onto playing a game searching for lots of different natural objects, the children were challenged to find different coloured leaves, pine cones, sycamore seeds and small sticks and to identify the different trees on our school field. Mole class were amazing at identifying and finding all of these objects. Moles then had the opportunity to make their own woodland creations with our potion pots, we had lots of marvellous soups and teas to try.

1st November 2023

Today Mole class were the first to use our new temporary Forest School site and what a lovely morning we all had! We explored our new site and played a class game, learning about the types of trees around us. Moles also had fun collecting pine cones and different coloured autumn leaves as well as discovering which insects live in this new area.

Our past Forest School sessions.

6th July 2023

Week 5

Mole classes final week of forest school for this term was all about them and what makes them unique. The children had the opportunity to create their own experiences within mystical garden. They used their forest school skills and team work to build their own swing. This was created completely independently with the children carrying out a risk assessment and deciding where best to place it for both their safety and the safety of those around them. It was an incredible bit of forest school engineering. The children also had the opportunity to create a wooden mole to take home, they used many skills and all those that chose to make one showed safe tool work skills. Well done Mole class

Week 4

Mole class have been waiting excitedly and patiently for their cooking week and it didn't disappoint. We started off with a game of 'Hunter Hunter' on the school playground lots of laughter, support and kindness was shown during this time. After this we headed down to the Mystical Garden to cook our toast. The children's manners where impeccable, they were polite, patient and by all the yummy noises they made I think its safe to say they all enjoyed it.

Week 3

This week during Mole classes forest school it was all about working together. Everything they had out would require them to work together in small teams. Working with the Forest school leaders the children used their Knot skills and learnt to put up a lean to den using den building poles, tarps, tent pegs and rope. The children had a go at woodland skiing, hunted for insects and identified them in books and practised their archery skills.