Nature Journal
Updated weekly by our very own Nature Club.
- 24/05/24
Friday 24th May 2024
This week’s session we focused on symbiosis: the way species can work together in nature for their mutual benefit. Thanks to an eagle-eyed Ellie in Year 6 for spotting the red veined dock leaf that was plastered in black and green bugs: aphids. The children found it harder to...Read Full Story - 16/05/24
Thursday 16th May 2024
This week we focused on Number 15 of our global goals and I was so pleased when four hands went up when I asked what No.15 was? Life on Land offered Kit! We talked about what biodiversity means (variety of lifeforms) and how many species might be in our nature area. After many gues...Read Full Story - 09/05/24
Thursday 9th May 2024
What a glorious day! We started off with what we could hear apart from children and that was a robin and a lamb. Then, I asked the children to go round and count all the flowers they could in the nature area. They managed between them bluebell, garlic mustard, rosemary, periwinkle, daisy, buttercup...Read Full Story - 02/05/24
Thursday 2nd May 2024
Hot on the heels of the National Trust nature photography competition, (results pending), we are now taking part in the RHS Big Sow. Some of our school compost is now ready to use once we pot the seeds on and we will also be able to make use of all the rain that has accumulated in our rain but...Read Full Story