Long term Child led Site ownership nature connectedness well being respect for places and careful and management The key themes link easily and provide opportunity for Forest School back to curriculum work ID: 705499
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Forest School and the John Muir Award
Long termChild ledSite ‘ownership’, ‘nature connectedness’, ‘well being’, ‘respect’ for places and careful and management.The key themes link easily and provide opportunity for Forest School back to curriculum work.Case study – Gamesley Primary School Slide2
DISCOVER
Where is our woodland?
How do we get there?
What is the route?
Map workLocation workFollowing a map and map makingSlide3
Back at school
Download photographs – caption them for sharing in an assembly, blog site, display
Write about National Parks and protecting green spaces
Use the words from the ‘poet-tree’ activity to write a poem.
DISCOVERSafety and boundariesEye
Cameras
Meet a tree
Make your own national park
Poet-treeOwl eyes, deer ears, fox walking, Kim’s gameSlide4
DISCOVER AND EXPLORE
Natural Music Making – natural bandTreasure huntSit SpotsSilent listening
Bat and Moth, Deer Stalk
Back at school
Download photographs – caption them for sharing in an assembly, blog site, displayRecord and edit their natural band musicMake a treasure hunt and map of the school grounds or another wild space they have visited.Slide5
EXPLORE
Grass sweep
Tree Shake
Bug hunts
Identification and usesFood chains and webs and how things are connectedDen buildingGreen man stories and mud monsters
Back at school
Download photographs – caption them for sharing in an assembly, blog site, display
Graphs and writing up habitat surveys
Fact files drawing and painting of the species
Nature writing – fact or fiction. Super hero comic strips
Researching plants and animalsSlide6
CONSERVE
Bird boxes
Bird feeders
Bat Boxes
Fences
Brash piles
Back at school
Download photographs for sharing.
Instructional writing and how it will help.
Posters about caring for wild spaces.
Tree planting?
Coppicing?
Wildflower bombs?
Environmental Impact Assessment?
Anti-litter posters?Slide7
SHARE
AssemblyBlog site write upsMission Explore books for the family school holidaysDisplay in schoolSlide8Slide9
Food web
Tree ID
Sit spot