Burton Primary Spring and Summer Overview

It has been a great Spring term at Forest School, with reception classes, Otters and Ducks, exploring and learning in the wonderful school woodland at Burton. 

Pupils covered activities including den building, bug hunting, leaf craft activities, first aid and toasting crumpets on the fire!

Spring term 2 year 5 pupils took part in Forest School. Across this time pupils will cover topics which include Life Skills, Tools, Recycling and Fire Safety, all within the school woodland.

The year 5 pupils were amazing, and did activities including exploring the colours in nature, den building, created rafts from recycled items and chopped kindling for their own fires. In the final week we toasted marshmallows and made some delicious s’mores!

In the summer term, year 3 and 4 took part in Forest School. Across this time pupils covered topics which included Life Skills, Tools, Trees, Mud and Fire Safety, all within the school woodland. Years 3 and 4 were amazing and were fully engaged in the activities including clay and shelter building. The particularly enjoyed the ‘waterproof test’ on a very well-built den! They did a great job at identifying the trees in the Forest School by looking at the leaves, bark and fruit/ seeds. This was finished off nicely with some s’mores in the last week before half term yum!

Year 1 and 2 pupils who have attended Forest School Lunch Club in summer 1 term have worked towards earning their Green Blue Peter Badge by taking part in activities which show they are passionate about nature and the environment.

In Summer 2 lunch club, some year 6 pupils have made wind chimes out of some old Bamboo, a lovely way to leave a legacy in forest school for the future.

So with only a couple weeks left in the school year campfire cooking will be on the cards, and many goodbyes to our wonderful Year 6’s, we wish them well for their future!

Want to join in? We run a holiday club at Burton primary open to all children age 5 - 11 (year 6 leavers welcome). Sign up to our popular holiday club, summer dates are available now bookings