Woodland windows

Year 3 have been reading Jeannie Baker's book, 'Window' in class. In Outdoor learning we have been following this up by making our own window frames by lashing sticks together.

                                                                                               

 Then we tried to recreate the view from our own bedroom windows (after sketching it out). We used all natural materials found in he woods including sticks, leaves and grass, with some spectacular results.

Mud glorious mud.

 

Since Christmas the rain has been relentless. As you can see from the sorry state of the chicken run, the mud has taken over our outside spaces; fun for splashing in puddles but the chicks don't seem to appreciate that!

 

 

Luckily the Council parks service helped us out by delivering a truckload of fresh woodchippings. The Year 5s shoveled and raked it all over the muddy paths and made it look lovely again!

 

Bench update!

After weeks of sawing, drilling, whittling, and sanding we have finally got some of the Year 6 benches finished! We'll done for all your hard work. We will be using some of them in our outdoor classroom and might sell some, if they pass our rigorous safety testing.