Strawberries and dens
So hot in the allotment, even at the end of the day! We were able to cook our tea outside- using some of our home grown chard and broad...
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Katy
Jun 22, 20221 min read
Trees are awesome!
The forest was so cool this week- literally! Trees offer more than shade, they cool the air too. We had a great time doing some...
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Katy
Jun 11, 20221 min read
Summer clay project
We were so busy in our art session, we forgot to take photos! In the next few weeks before the summer holidays, we are doing some clay...
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Katy
Jun 8, 20221 min read
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 5, 20221 min read
Potions!
Much cooler and quite overcast this afternoon, but there’s was lots of potion making! We have lots of herbs on the plot, and the mint is...
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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 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 15, 20221 min read
Beautiful allotment afternoon!
What a change in the weather- we hope it lasts for a while! Definitely time for outdoors reading and painting, and we did a few gardening...
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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
Winter jobs
Our volunteer session was very productive- we took a load of thornless gooseberry cutting. Hopefully, if they take, we will have plenty...
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Katy
Jan 21, 20221 min read
Chilly after school
We had plenty of work to do in this week’s after school session -which is how we like it, as it’s pretty cold after the sun has gone...
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