I have been delighted by the opportunity to bring together two of my interests into the one project. By the title you will imagine forests in the wilds of Northumberland , but this one is in the heart of Newcastle and attached to a lucky primary school tucked away in a natural dean.
The school have been developing this great asset into a place for outside classes and that can mean anything from cooking (yes they have a proper brick oven) to literacy and language through nature.
The school have been developing this great asset into a place for outside classes and that can mean anything from cooking (yes they have a proper brick oven) to literacy and language through nature.
Every Tuesday for 8 weeks key stage 1 have been using story telling and drama techniques to bring to life their curriculum.We have been taking every opportunity to go into the forest school. It is in this setting that the children are most relaxed happy and ready to try something new.
Props can play a part in the themes particularly if it brings the children together in the pleasure of listening to each other tell stories. Over the next few weeks I hope to get them to be able to tell each other stories in the forest school using ideas from the natural world around them. As a method of learing it was old even to the classical world of Ancient Greece but a good idea is worth passing on.