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April 6, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – Session 6 – Busy Bees

We can forget or just not realise how important outdoor play is in childhood (and beyond). This page from the Forest Fridays book is here to remind us. The full book is available on https://www.dspns.ie/scaip/. This week, as always, the children had lots of ideas …
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March 31, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – 28th March 2025

It was a windy and bright day in the forest today. The gorse was in full bloom and we noticed the dark patches on the sea and figured out that it was probably shadows from the clouds overhead. The children know the structure of the …
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March 15, 2025Outdoor Learning, Uncategorized, by

4th class – hammocks, tea, weaving, clay and games

We had a lot of variety today. The children can arrive tired at the end of a week and after a walk up hill from school. One child said at the start, ‘I’m soooooo tired. But I know that’ll change as soon as I’m at …
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March 8, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – Session 2 – Cloud School

Today we had Cloud School. ‘Are we really in a cloud?’ ‘I always wanted to be in a cloud.’ ‘It’s so magical. It feels like anything could happen.’ Going back to the same place week after week allows us to know it in a way …
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February 28, 2025Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – short and sweet session

4th class arrived late to the Forest but for a very good reason – celebrating 50 years since the founding meeting of DSP! So we went straight to our base camp and got down to the serious business of exploring and playing, building and creating, …
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February 27, 2024Outdoor Learning, by

4th class – Winter and Spring

4th class started off the day searching for hazel flowers. Hazel flowers are tiny. We could see the catkins full of pollen dangling from the branches but finding the tiny pink flowers was a challenge. It’s amazing the think that this is how a hazelnut …
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March 29, 2023Outdoor Learning, , by

3rd class & 4th class welcome their adults to the woods

It was such a pleasure to see the children become the leaders for their adults today. They really lived up to our ‘green agreements’ of keeping themselves safe and happy and especially today, keeping their adults safe and happy. This included explaining the games, finding …
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March 22, 2023Outdoor Learning, , by

3rd & 4th class – Session 8 – observation and creativity

Nature has so much for us to notice with awe and wonder. The children learn from and with each other as they use their senses to pay attention to and be curious about nature’s treasures. 3rd class 4th class
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March 6, 2023Outdoor Learning, , by

3rd & 4th class – Session 7 – weaving & playing

With child led learning, natural differentiation through choice and opportunities arising to learn with and from the environment each group has a very different experience. One group engages with their vestibular system learning about balance and cause and effect. Another finds litter in their favourite …
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February 28, 2023Outdoor Learning, , by

Creativity with circles – February 24th

This week we continued our exploration of the forest as winter gives way to Springtime. The circle of life keeps on turning and so we made many different circles and used them with great creativity in a variety of ways. 3rd class 4th Class
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