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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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June 20, 2024Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – principle of long-term process of regular sessions

22nd march 2024 On the day of the final DSP Forest School session for the 6th class students, the sky was grey, and we felt chilly and windy as we arrived at Killiney Hill. The theme was to go through the Forest School ethos which …
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April 16, 2024Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – principle of regular sessions

Forest school is a long-term process of regular sessions, rather than a one-off or infrequent visits. The essence of forest school is the building and developing of relationships; with ourselves, each other and nature. This can’t be done in a one off session. (One off …
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March 20, 2024Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Principle of holistic learning

It was a cold, still and cloudy morning. There was almost no wind in our base camp and we could hear lots of birds singing away throughout the session. Today’s theme was to think about the third of the forest school principles: “holistic development”. Forest School …
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March 19, 2024Outdoor Learning, by

6th class – Principle of appropriate risk

(written by Yuuki Blakeney & Jenny Dungan) It was a lovely sunny day for the second week of Forest School with 6th class. The theme of this week’s session was “taking appropriate risks”. One of the six principles of Forest school is to offer learners …
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February 26, 2024Outdoor Learning, by

Principles of Forest school – Woodland setting

Principle 1: Forest school takes place in a woodland or natural environment to support the development of a relationship between the learner and the natural world. For the five sessions we have with 6th class this year we are bringing their attention to some of …
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May 4, 2023Outdoor Learning, , by

Session 2 Junior Infants by Amy (6th class assistant)

On the way up to our base camp the junior infants went looking for daisies. The daisies would later be made into daisy tea. We also looked out for gifts for the grandmother tree. Some of the juniors found flowers and leaves or something they …
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