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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Creativity with stickyweed – Junior Infants – 16th May 2025

We are noticing really interesting things. We made sticky weed crowns. We played games and climbed. We made leaf prints with clay. Someone had a special nature birthday. We made a nature birthday cake and danced around it, finishing with cleaver birthday tea.
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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Sticky weed fun and leaf prints – 16th May 2025 – 1st class

The journey up to base camp is full of learning and movement. We stopped off in the meadow. On the edges was lots of stickyweed (aka cleavers, goosegrass, stickybacks etc). We started by looking closely and noticing interesting things about the stickyweed plant. We noticed …
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May 19, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, , by

Bealtaine and the fairy tree – Junior Infants May 9th 2025

Junior Infants are learning so much about the forest through observation, curiosity and wonder. Our job as leaders is to follow that interest and support the learning that they are drawn towards. There was a lot of fairy magic in the woods this week. We …
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May 12, 2025Outdoor Learning, , by

Dandelions – wishes and faces and more – Junior Infants – May 2nd 2025

Journey to basecamp Junior Infants always notice interesting things on the way to our basecamps. Dandelion magic Dandelions are a very generous plant for children. They can colour with them, make wishes with them, make land art faces with them, make tea with them and …
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April 6, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, by

6th class – Bee-ing natural and grateful

This week was the last week before the 6th class students become assistants for the younger children. They have demonstrated leadership skills in the last few weeks, learning games to teach the younger children, noticing things in nature to show them, figuring out how to …
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March 31, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – welcoming Czech visitors

This week pupils from the Czech Republic who had been in Irish schools during the week came to Forest Friday. They were on their school tour to explore different kinds of education in Ireland. On Thursday they spent the day in DSP so it was …
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March 15, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Session 3 – swings, knife work, cooking and visitors

March 14th 2025 We continued with playing games that we can teach the younger children. Today it was bat and moth. We noticed that some children prefer to be the bat with a blindfold and trying to catch the moth with ‘echolocation’ and others prefer …
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March 8, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Session 2 – hammocks, tarps and games

Hammocks Today we were learning how to put up hammocks with tree straps and carabiners. This will be really helpful when they are assistants for the 1st class and Junior Infants. There’s lots of problem solving and awareness building in this activity. They needed to: …
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February 28, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

6th class learning to be assistant leaders

The sun was shining its welcome to 6th class as they started their final DSP Forest School sessions. There was a real gladness and gratitude for being back in the forest with their friends. We started by playing a few games. As they are beginning …
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November 29, 2024Uncategorizedby

Create, Collaborate, Communicate!

Sixth Class enjoyed a trip to Sky studios on Friday as part of the Sky Up academy programme. They learned all about the various roles both on and off-screen which make up a TV production team. They got to try their hand at scriptwriting, producing, …
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