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This padlet has been produced to detail what Telford Junior School Forest School get up to during their time in the onsite wood; how it is organised and planned and the safety measures in place.

Forest School is lead by Nicola Bingley who has her Forest School L3 Qualification.  She is supported by the school's wonderful team of Teaching Assistants and parent helpers.

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Year group allocations for Forest School 21/22.  Within your year group please decide who would like the Mon/Wed/Thur afternoon slot.
I'll catch up with each year group about a month before the sessions start to brainstorm ideas and confirm class slots. If the meantime if you have ideas or queries come and find me.

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Best place to start... The handbook sets out the ethos of Forest School, what we do, how we do it and the admin in place to keep us all s

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Telford School Forest School Handbook v1.3Feb 23

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1.  Only enter Telford School wood with a member of staff.

2.  Listen and act on any adults instructions whilst in the wood.  If unsure about any activity ask.

3. Always respect and protect life.

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Telford Forest School Programme V1 110820

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As we share the wood with Infants and Playschool I've liaised with them regarding wood use.  Juniors can use the wood Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons (on the basis we focus on English and Maths core curriculum in the mornings).

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ID Sheets for trees in the school wood. Laminated copies available.

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Naming the different parts of the tree.

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Botanical names of leaf shapes, edges, tips, arrangement etc.

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Leaf Shape, Base, Attachment, tip, habit

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A4 Sheet per tree species found in Telford Wood for making field notes, collecting & sticking findings to.

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Includes different types of venation and leaf edges / margins. Colourful reference material.

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Presentation (with notes) used during the Key Worker Forest School days during lockdown.

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Whole school plan to facilitate recovery curriculum on return to school.

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Grounding ourselves through listening to the sounds of our wood.

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Grounding ourselves through listening to the sounds of our wood.

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Children enter the wood and are whilst sitting quietly, listening to the sounds they can hear, noting the different directions they may be coming from, the different layers of sounds or how the sounds vary with their pitch; they record their hearings via writing, drawing or associating it with how it makes them feel.

Sometimes we just sit and listen together, trying hard to identify the different bird songs filtering down through the trees.

Often the children will have spotted, identified or collected something as they cross the field that starts our discussion once we're sat down.

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Year 6 had their initial session reconnecting to the wood; exploring it through a scavenger hunt for different leaves, sorting them into groups with and different characteristics and creating leaf rubbings which they labelled with information they gathered from the ID sheets available.  Some explored the wood further finding sticks they created into fishing rods, bows or ornaments and we discussed the following sessions and what they would like to do and create over our four weeks in the wood.  The initial plan evolved over the four weeks within each of the six groups within Year 6 so it looks slightly different. The details below are for each of the groups to demonstrate this, with annotations make each week shown in different colours.

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A song describing the process...

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Woodland trust tree quiz, includes blackthorn and sycamore that are not in our grounds, but children could get the answers right by a process of elimination.

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Help youngsters learn about trees and wildlife with our interactive classroom quizzes.

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Y6 Session plans Redwood 1 Wednesday     This is an example of the planning reviews and updates that take place after each session for the next session.

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Y6 - Redwood Group 1 - Actual plan as it evolved

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Y6 - Redwood Group 1 - Actual plan as it evolved

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All activities are risk assessed and risk benefit assessed to determine the outcomes and potential achievements the children will gain for the controlled element of risk they will experience.  The children are guided and supported to enable them to risk assess the activities they wish to undertake in the wood as these are often particular to a child or small group of children and in doing so provide the development of key life skills.

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Programme for the remaining academic year. Y4's sessions will be updated once each class decides which day they would like their Forest School sessions to occur on.