The pupils went outside to check on the bird feeders, bug hotels, next boxes and hedgehog houses. Any empty houses were cleaned out ready to use for this year. Whilst in the garden, time was found to hug a tree. The pupils became very excited when they heard the sound of a bird in the […]

The Year 5s were interested in finding out more about trees and how they grew, so they sourced information about these, learning about how the different ring layers in the trunk and what each layer did for the tree.

As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, the Year 3’s went outside to look at the changes in the garden and nature areas and see what treasures they could find. Children (and adults) often feel calmer and more relaxed when outside, and we often take pupils out for to make a positive impact on their […]

The whole school was invited to take part in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch and a number of pupils went out to see which of our feathered friends they could find. The bird cookies were proving very popular with the flying visits to our school grounds so more needed to be made, which our keen volunteers […]

The pupils in Year 4 are currently reading about Kaspar: Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo. To help understand the characters, they went outside to make a frame of their favourite character. First the characters were discussed and designed on paper. They they went out with a box of wooden discs and what they collected […]