Nature Journal
Updated weekly by our very own Nature Club.
- 19/04/24
Friday 19th April 2024
Another week of collecting photographs for the competition, this time using ipads to zoom in. Luckily, the rain stopped and the sun came out. So far, we have had pond larvae, pond snails, Shasta daisies, bluebells, daisies and rosemary. Next week is the last chance, and we are hopi...Read Full Story - 11/04/24
Thursday 11th April 2024
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...Read Full Story - 21/03/24
Thursday 21st March 2024
We started by sampling some garlic mustard and dandelion leaf. The children know to NEVER eat anything without expert supervision and I repeated this and that I only eat things in my garden or nature area, because I know that they haven’t been sprayed. Everyone had a taste and most...Read Full Story - 15/03/24
Friday 15th March 2024
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...Read Full Story - 29/02/24
Thursday 29th February 2024
Since March 1st will be with us tomorrow and we will be in the first day of Spring, we decided to spring clean our pond! All the rain means that we have not had to fill the pond or rain butt, but all the wind has left a lot of leaves and branches in the pond. We had 4 rules: shallow dipp...Read Full Story - 16/02/24
Friday 16th February 2024
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...Read Full Story - 09/02/24
Friday 9th February 2024
My original plan for nature club was to study clouds, but the weather had other ideas, so that will have to wait for another week. Instead, we had a go at seeing how many birdsongs we could identify. It was a rare case of holding nature club indoors, as the rain was pelting down on the c...Read Full Story - 02/02/24
Friday 2nd February 2024
This week we decided to shift our focus away from plants and to animals, specifically badgers! The wildlife camera has managed to capture our family of badgers here many a time, so the children already knew some things about badgers, but after our quiz, they were badger experts. Some of the qu...Read Full Story - 25/01/24
Thursday 25th January 2024
As we are taking part in the RSPB's British Bird Watch, we decided to make some fat balls for our birds. There was some Maths involved, which they all chipped in with. The balls had to contain a ratio of one part lard to 2 parts seed. There was 250g of lard. Eva was reluctant to handle the lard...Read Full Story - 19/01/24
Friday 19th January 2024
What a beautiful frosty day to be outside. Following on from Lucas's suggestion that we could make mud paint, we did just that and three other colours. As our soil contains a lot of clay here at Foxton, it created a lovely warm shade of brown. Unfortunately, we couldn't use...Read Full Story - 21/12/23
Thursday 21st December 2023
Well what a way to end nature club, with our voices competing with the wind, which had a decidedly wintry bite to it. Unfortunately, some naughty elves seem to have hidden the school camera, so you will have to imagine our attempts to sing The Holly and The Ivy in the round! Year 5 had a...Read Full Story - 14/12/23
Thursday 14th December 2023
Now that winter is here and the pollinators are no longer around, we are able to responsibly use our herbs and plants. We have cooked quite a few times, so on this occasion, we used pressed herbs to start making some bookmarks which will be completed next week. There was parsley, sage, rosemary, ore...Read Full Story