Nature Journal

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...

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...

This week was the final chance to take photos for the competition.  We have been lucky with the weather during the lunchtimes and the children have got very adept with the zoom in facility.  There are different age groups and the whole competition actually went up to 16 years.  We wil...

For the next three sessions nature clubbers will be photographing nature for a competition in conjunction with the National Trust.  It can be of absolutely anything that isn’t human and is natural.  So far we have had plants, insects, fungus, flowers.  Mating ladybirds, milliped...

This week there was mulch to do with nature club.  Using some of the leaf mould in the car park, we gave the fruit trees a good mulching as we do every spring and autumn to suppress the weeds and keep the soil hydrated and intact.  Louisa did a quick health check and the apple blossom was...

It could almost have been spring today, as it was so sunny and warm and a welcome break from all the rain.  We carried on with the bird song quiz.  They found the robin very easy to identify, as well as the woodpigeon, blue tit, crow and magpie.  There were 20 birds in all.  We t...