The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
It's been half term week. Five days of catching up with friends and catching up on chores! It was also an opportunity to contemplate Term 6, the final run up to the end of the school year. It's a hectic time in the school calendar. Trips, plays, report writing. The winding down of a years work and the beginnings of prepping for next year. Plus the goodbyes to those moving on to new schools. Year 6 will head off to Secondary School having had almost 4 years of Forest School, and for the most part, that was weekly! Any and all benefits of the last few years are anecdotal, It's difficult to 'prove' the worth of any extra curricular education. We don't provide sessions for one year group class and not the other, allowing a neutral sample! We can only build on what the children say and the observations by ourselves and their teachers, and we ALL continue to see it as a positive influence on children's wellbeing and learning. I have rambled on in the past about h...