Welcome back to the Paragon Outdoor learning blog. This year may well see quite a few changes to the outdoor learning programme, together with the staff learning about Forest School, from the Bridgewater training.
Today Year 2 went on a walk spinning a story of superheros, following a villain named "nobody knows his name!" We found that he had been into the railway arch and,"our powering up base," said Alex, drew pictures on the wall ,and left. We followed a trail, asked a dog walker if he had seen the villain. Everyone was engaged for awhile in the story; lots of evidence, footsteps, claw marks, broken perspex...part of a puzzle, then down the field with sheep in it. This bit, we practised twice, walking and silence. Break time, then out again to build superhero dens, so our search could start again tomorrow. Some good collaborative play, investigation, problem solving and fun was had by all. After popcorn and marshmallows it was time for lunch back at school.
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| Oliver, log rolling... |
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| How do I get this over? |
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| Superhero den! |
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| Teacher art |
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| Not quite finished |
Everyone gave me a nice welcome and it was lovely to see my first snowdrops of the year at the Paragon exit...on the bank of the Western Wetlands.
