Forest School 

Welcome to the frosty part of our year! Brrrrrrr.

Foundation students had a very busy time at Forest School, learning about the different ways we can generate new plants. We focused on propagating cuttings as a method of getting a brand new plant and Foundation students had the fabulous assistance of a small tribe of grade five and six students to help them.

We decorated paper cups and filled them with soil, then picked leaves from our wheelbarrow succulent garden to make little baby plants to take home.

All classes talked about Adaptation and Natural Selection this week. Mrs. Tulloch couldn’t believe her luck, spotting a tiny green moth that she thought was a green gum leaf on the gravel near After Care! We looked it up and discovered it is an Australian Chlorocoma Melocrossa…Say THAT three times quickly! Ask your littlies about ‘Adaptation” in science and you’ll discover some amazing facts.

Senior students had such a great time learning some new knots and using their new-found knowledge to create hammocks between trees, using rope and some old curtains. Several class groups vigorously tested the very old curtain hammocks with hilarious results and lots of learning! In addition to the terrible old curtains, we also used a brand new and very strong tablecloth for another hammock which we saved for Foundation students only, to use to gently rock each other and watch the clouds go by. It proved to be stronger and much more comfy and was very popular.

This week we are having a couple of very exciting sessions, with a special guest speaker in JCB, taking about platypus with a number of classes (Thanks for organising this Mr. O) and also a visit from Woodend Men’s Shed to build possum and bird boxes with grades one and two…Stay tuned for more exciting details on these two events!

Ginny  😊

Forest School Specialist Teacher