All the wonderful Year 2 children from Bengeworth Academy came out to me over three days. I had the pleasure of meeting them in their Year 1 last year. It was amazing to see how much they had remembered about their previous trip. They were very excited getting off the coach, which I took as a compliment! 

The children are studying the story ‘Into the Forest’ by Anthony Browne. With my wood, the play house, the tree house, a very long piece of string and lots of props we recreated the story. The children were put into small groups and asked to concentrate on a particular page of the book. They have clearly loved working on the book in class. 

After seeing various levels of acting ability (!) we headed down to the pond to see if we could spot any signs of Spring. After the previous cold weeks the pond is still looking very winter like. I feel the pond is at least two if not three weeks behind where it usually is. I haven’t even got the pond dipping nets out yet!

After lunch the children had lots of exploration time in the play wood.