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We had such a great day when Oscar visited us from the ‘Nature Detectives’. We went outside to explore the changes that take place around our school in the season of Autumn. As we explored, we noticed the changes in the trees as well as the different mini beasts living in our school grounds.
Today we were visited by Rob from Zoolab. Rob brought different types of animals so that we could understand further how to group them into categories e.g. mammals, reptiles, amphibians etc. He also talked about what the animals eat, using the vocabulary carnivore, herbivore and omnivore herbivore omnivore. What an exciting afternoon! Continue Reading
As a class we talked about different habitats across the globe (desert, mountains, ocean, river, countryside etc) and which species was causing the most problems for other animals – humans! We talked about how in particular our demands for food and computer technology, such as mobile phones or games consoles, has led to huge areas… Continue Reading
In our last forest school session for the year, Year 5 Nurture Group brought together many of the skills they have been learning this year: whittling skills, campfire building and campfire lighting. The children are now so skilled that they needed minimal input from Mrs. Villalobos and they independently built a campfire, correctly layering… Continue Reading
Last week at Forest School, we went pond dipping. The pond at Scotswood Community Garden have crested newts, which are a protected species. Harriet, who works at the garden, helped to show us the newts and explained a little bit about their life cycle from egg to adult. Thank you Harriet! Continue Reading
We had two very cute and fluffy chicks join our classroom this week. It was lovely to see how they had developed in such a short time since hatching! We each had a chance to handle and stroke them and ask questions about their development. Continue Reading
To mark Children’s Mental Health week, we celebrated, ‘Dress to Express’ day in school. The children were given an opportunity to wear clothes to express their personalities. Some wore clothes they would wear every day, some dressed in fancy dress and we even had our very own Michael Jackson! In addition to this, they did… Continue Reading
Year 1 had a fabulous trip to the Rising Sun Country Park. We started our day looking at signs of Winter and Spring and then went on the do a mini-beast hunt. We put the mini beasts we found into special viewing pots and were careful to put the minibeasts back where we found them… Continue Reading
Unfortunately it was one group’s last session at Forest School this week. We have had a wonderful time over the last couple of months. We have learnt how to tree climb safely, how to build dens, done nature art, learnt how to safely light a camp fire and put it out, and best of all… Continue Reading
We went to St. Lawrence’s Park last week to help with spring bulb planting. We met the park rangers who gave us lots of interesting information about the creatures we found and how the spring flowers attract pollinators. Hopefully in spring next year we will see a beautiful bank of flowers thanks to our efforts! Continue Reading
