Another few hours of work & our new Forest School area is finally ready. It's been a lot of hard work, but we hope the children are as excited as we are. Thank you to Luke Thompson for his help over the summer, and also our own families. @LisaTho09033449 @beech_green

A busy afternoon clearing weeds and brambles ready to put up the new bamboo screen. Thank you Luke Thompson for your help! Also, thank you FABG for donating the screen. Lots more to do, but our new Forest School space is starting to take shape! @beech_green

Last term, Reception were passionate about wanting to look after their environment after learning about how damaging litter can be. Our wonderful parents & carers have responded by organising a litter pick. What a super community effort! Feeling proud! 💗 @beech_green

After reading 'Where the Wild Things Are', Reception drew their own 'wild things'. Following the children's interests resulted in some super descriptions. "He has blue, sharp horns...sharper than knives. It's body is red hot fire" said one of our youngest children. @beech_green

Thank you to @TChessell from Tesco for the generous fruit donation. The children were keen to accept the challenge from 'Mr Super Explorer' and try the different fruit (even if they weren't sure!) @beech_green

After making their own bird's nests at Forest School, Reception took great care when choosing where to place their nests. It truly is fantastic to see their love & appreciation of nature growing. @beech_green

Reception are loving their Easter egg hunt. Super recording on the maps! @beech_green

Mrs Poulson was eager to get involved in exploring the antics of the evil pea (from the Supertato story) What will he get up to next? @beech_green

Reception enjoyed making traps for the evil pea in their Forest School session today. They even got to plant some potatoes. We wondered if they would grow into a 'Supertato' too! @beech_green

The evil pea has been up to his mischievous tricks again in Reception. We are excited to see how the children respond to this! @beech_green

Reception were shocked by the antics of the evil pea in OUR unit...it simply made us more determined to catch him! We are loving the responses to the book 'Supertato'... such good fun!. @beech_green

In true early years style, the children's interests have changed the course of our learning. After reading Supertato as the voted book at storytime, Reception are determined to capture the evil pea and have enjoyed designing & making traps in the Unit. @beech_green

The Reception children who are at school really enjoyed trying to catch snowflakes on pieces of card. They then looked at them carefully with their magnifying glasses. Later we will be making our own snowflakes! @beech_green

Reception children were busy making 'leaf' tails for the 'tailless' squirrels they found in the Forest School area. Who'd of known that Reception could also find so many acorns mysteriously hidden too! Lots of fun, as always in Forest School! @beech_green

Reception were amazed by the beauty of nature during Forest School "Wow, that's beautiful!" She said as she couldn't take her eyes off the skeleton leaf she had found. So important to encourage our children to stop & appreciate the beauty of nature around us! @beech_green

Reception are loving their new gravel pit. Lots of learning and fun is taking place. Thanks again to the generosity of Buildit Gloucester @builditglos @beech_green

Reception's new gravel pit! HUGE thanks to @builditglos for supplying the materials, our children will love using this! Thanks also to our helpers for giving up your Saturday morning! @beech_green

Something exciting is happening at Beech Green School today, all thanks to the generosity (again!) of the local branch of Buildit! Thanks for your support @builditglos Watch this space to see what we are making for our lucky Reception children! @beech_green

Apple Class have enjoyed their first few Forest School sessions. They loved hunting for different coloured leaves to then use. They decided to call their piece of autumnal artwork a 'Leafbow' @beech_green

Reception Bubbles enjoyed exploring capacity by having a treat drink of squash. Super use of language. @beech_green