Outdoor Learning
We are the lead school in Lambeth for outdoor learning with all year groups following the Natural Thinkers Curriculum. We follow an outdoor curriculum based on ‘Forest School’ principles and gardening which was developed by staff and pupils at Heathbrook and adapted for all Lambeth children.
Pupils in Early Years have free-flow access to their own gardens while Year 1 and 2 pupils have their own ‘Oasis’ garden immediately accessible from classrooms. All pupils have regular lessons in the Wildlife Garden where they learn to use tools, develop gardening skills and nurture the flora and fauna. We have a pond and a bog that are homes to our frogs and newts.
The school community has been involved in developing all of our outdoor learning spaces through projects such as Growing Together and Big Digs. Nursery pupils sell their produce to parents at the ‘Nursery Market’ whilst older pupils sell our produce at the Venn Street Farmers’ Market. Read even more about our Outdoor Learning provision…
Recent Outdoor Learning News
On Friday, the Wild Things helped with jobs around the garden... watering the compost and collecting leaves. Building a bed of the artichokes and up-cycling old metal driers! They worked in [...]
This week’s learning in nursery
Such a busy week! Enjoy looking at the photo's!
Cave Paintings!
After making charcoal in the wild life garden yesterday, Year 3 were able to create our own cave painting style art on one of the walls on the playground. We had lots of fun doing [...]
Charcoal and Stone Age Art!
We had a very unusual art lesson today. It all started in the wildlife garden with Miss Defty who instructed us on how to make charcoal. We made a fire underneath the Kelly Kettle and [...]
Wild Things
Although there are no photographs to show, the Wild Things had an exceptionally busy afternoon with the numerous tasks ahead. These included planting fava beans and covering them in freshly sieved compost, cutting down the [...]
Coop Supporting our Composting
We are very grateful to our next door Coop food store and garage who, in addition to keeping their coffee grounds to enhance our compost, also donated a couple of large bags of compost too! [...]