Thriving programme continues to benefit
The Year 6 contingent held a special Forest School morning to gather valuable information for the “What’s Under Your Feet?” campaign, a nationwide science scheme designed to collect data regarding invertebrates found within the soil.
During the session, which was supervised by programme leader Jude Pyves and other staff members, each pupil dug up a specific part of the vast Forest School area before sorting, identifying and recording specific things relating to the initiative that they found.
They then put the invertebrates found back carefully in the ground and recorded their finding, which were then correlated and put into the WUYF pod online.
Mrs Davies, said: “Engaging in this project provides an excellent opportunity to answer questions, and each member of our Year 6 group had a fantastic time getting their hands dirty in the name of science. By digging randomly selected turf samples, we managed to gather some extremely useful information to help the What’s Under Your Feet scheme relate long-term declines in some familiar bird species to climate change.”
Year 3 have been working hard on their current Literacy module based on ‘Folktales’, which formed the prominent focus of a special Forest School morning.
During the session, the pupils used the story of ‘The Tiger Child’ to practice vocabulary, such as prepositions, by hiding animal characters from the story ‘under’ or ‘inside’ different places throughout the Forest School for others to find.
This was followed by the group sitting around the campfire to hear Forest School programme co-ordinator Jude Pyves read ‘The Tiger Child’, before working in groups to their own version of the story, replacing the character of the tiger with a British woodland animal.