After school crafts
We spent some time watering the vineyard greenhouse, then had a relaxing painting session for our first week back after half term....
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Katy
May 20, 20221 min read
Fabulous kaleidoscopes!
Something that’s been in my mind for a while, and today we finally got around to making our own kaleidoscopes from scratch. They seemed...
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Katy
May 14, 20221 min read
Steiner-inspired art
We’re using special waxed paper to carefully cut out designs that will overlap and create gorgeous colours when the light is behind them....
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Katy
May 14, 20221 min read
Wild wildflowers
Our young people were learning the safe use of tools this afternoon- in fact, they were using shears to clear nettle. They made the...
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Katy
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Sunshiny after school
Lovely weather, and we’re still marvelling that it’s light until the end of our session! New energy for creating different sorts of dens,...
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Katy
Apr 30, 20221 min read
Spring art
We’re making the most of the spring flowers, by preserving them to make chains of natural sun catchers. Using our wire-twisting skills...
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Katy
Apr 9, 20221 min read
Edible Easter Art
Design and technology …with food! Our last session before Easter was a food design challenge, with construction and decoration elements....
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Katy
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Allotment jobs
Probably the last of the really warm weather for a while, so at our after school session we did some work on the allotment- weeding,...
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Katy
Mar 29, 20221 min read
Woodland springtime
Forest school was chillier than the last week has been, but the celandines and wood anemones are out, along with wild garlic. The...
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Katy
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Loving the sunshine!
‘What would you like to do first?’ ’Painting!’ Our small group this week were very keen to get out the watercolours! They then made a...
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Katy
Mar 26, 20221 min read
Art using the sunshine
We were using the photography process of cyanotype print making today, which creates ‘blueprint’ images. I had already made the cyanotype...
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Katy
Mar 23, 20221 min read
Mother’s Day, and making camp!
We’re really loving the longer evenings- hard to think that we needed the greenhouse lights on until quite recently. We used some...
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Katy
Mar 19, 20221 min read
Sunshine!
Beautiful day at the allotment- we set up a camp in the wildflower area, and had a fabulous afternoon of crochet, and knitting! Very...
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Katy
Mar 15, 20221 min read
Derby University students’ visit
We had a visit from a group of students from Derby university, who were interested in alternative settings for education. We used bowsaws...
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Katy
Mar 8, 20221 min read
And we didn’t need the lights!
This was our first after school session where we didn’t need the greenhouse lighting- it’s definitely spring! And we used our first...
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Katy
Mar 8, 20221 min read
Craft and craftivism
An interesting art session- we were talking about how craft can be used to protest and to raise awareness, big conversations! And we...
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Katy
Mar 8, 20221 min read
Woodland pancakes!
Forest school sessions haven’t been able to happen much this year, due to the weather! So many storms and high winds- but luckily,...
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Katy
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Final textile session of half term
This is our last session at the plot before half term- although we do have a very special, off-site session in two weeks…😁 This week...
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Katy
Feb 5, 20221 min read
Stars and pizza!
One of the lovely things about winter after-school sessions is being able to see the stars. We sometimes use a free star chart app to...
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Katy
Jan 30, 20221 min read
Is it getting warmer..?
Our after school session definitely felt spring-like…not only was it (a bit) warmer, but there was lots of birdsong. We had one indoor...
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