Nature Journal

It might be officially summertime, but the weather had other ideas on Thursday. In order to enhance the tasting experience (and to prevent them from seeing the bottles) the students closed their eyes when sampling the botanical brews! They were however, allowed to use their sense of smell. Afte...

What a glorious May afternoon and very appropriate as it turns out, since hawthorn trees were the original Maypole that young people danced around.  It has been a symbol of fertility for hundreds of years and is steeped in mysticism and magic, as it supposedly protects you from evil.  In t...

On another beautifully sunny day, with a chill wind, we returned to our geological timeline to look at how flowering plants or angiosperms evolved.  The children did remember that it was something to do with the mass extinction during the Cretaceous period which wiped out the dinosaurs 65 milli...

Although it was the spring equinox, it felt more like a summer’s day in the nature area.  Whilst we were sat, a robin and blue tit arrived and I had already seen a couple of butterflies and a bee amongst the comfrey.  The session started with Felicity bringing in some of her finds fr...

Nature club was on a Friday this week, as we did not want to be doing it in our world book day costumes!  We continued with our observation of the badgers- looking for paths, guard hairs and prints.  We won’t see any cubs if more have been born until April .  We learnt the word...

Last Thursday I said spring was in the air, but this week there was a decidedly winter chill.  Despite the thermometer not falling below zero, the wind chill factor definitely made it feel icy.  For a change, we headed off into the Forest School area and began to map and identify the trees...