Knighton Church in Wales Primary School
Caru Duw, Caru Pawb, Caru Dysgu
Today our class has been lucky enough to work with Toni and Hels in a Forest School session.
We used a pruning saw a to cut a branch of a hazel tree to create a rope ladder. Others created dens whilst waiting. Lots of skills were developed, including resilience, team-work, communication and empathy.
Well done to all our Dathliad Cymraeg competition winners. We celebrated their efforts in a special assembly where we were also joined by one woman band Mrs Judith Phillips, who taught us ‘A Lan Y Mor.’
Diolch yn fawr i Gruff from Menter iaith for coming in and teaching year 5/6 more about the key historical events of Wales. The children thoroughly enjoyed learning more about their country and enjoyed creating their timeline shields.
Pupils in year 5/6 enjoyed using their Welsh language throughout the day and creating a ‘Shwmae Su’mae’ doodle.
Children enjoyed using their Welsh language skills to practise their colours and using their incidental Welsh when asking for things during their colouring sessions. They also were able to follow a recipe in Welsh to make some delicious honey flapjacks! Bendigedig! Ambitious, capable learners.
During our final session the children enjoyed ligthing a camfire. After a safety discussion children were asked to collect a variety of tinder and kindling for their fire.
We then began to prepare our fire.
Once our fire was lit we started to prepare our marshmallows ready to toast whilst also fuelling our fire to keep it lit!
Nature Friends were invited to create a habitat for the fauna that call our forest school ‘home’. They thought carefully about all of the things that the insects would need and set about creating their habitats.
The Howlers were also thinking about our natural environment in our forest school area and they were invited to follow their interests and identify some of the flora in our area.
