The children at Mad Hatter’s Nursery School have had an excellent start this year, covering crucial, topical issues in our Conservation Art workshops. The plight of the pangolins, the wonder of otters, along with subjects like coral reef conservation – to name but a few – have been playfully coloured in a calming, fun and […]
The children at my Spring Term After School Club at Liphook Infant School began the year by learning about tree conservation and winter birds in a creative manner. Coincidentally, the new incredible documentary series, The Green Planet, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, which also started at the beginning of January, is all about trees and […]
In the summer of 2020 we were in the early planning stages for our outdoor classroom and so we weren’t able to confirm our exact plans for the trees until we knew what space we would have left in the back garden. Our classroom is now up and in use by the children which is […]
Greatham nursery already has a pond area along with quite a few trees in their back play area, but the nursery would love to create a wild area with wildflowers, a log roll and a bug hotel at the front of the nursery to encourage more wildlife into the green areas. This way the children would be able to watch and learn […]
Liphook would use the grant money for their forest school activities, to enhance the children’s understanding of outdoor play. For this, they would need to buy more equipment for the round house area where along with many other activities, they create fire pits. Liphook will be using the grant to fund the purchase of a range of […]
Hollycombe is set in the rolling Sussex downs so is already very rural but would love to plant some more trees in the back field area where the children play. The school is in discussions with a parent who is a horticulturalist about which type of trees would be best to plant. Hollycombe is also having […]
Mad Hatter’s is using the grant money to encourage more hedgehogs into the children’s play area. Mrs Chiverton would like to plant more hedgerow and a couple of willow trees to make a willow tunnel. Barry, Mrs Chiverton’s husband, will build a hedgehog house (to save cost) and if any money was to be left over they would add more […]
Explaining the science behind climate change and how it adversely effects our beautiful planet to six and seven-year-old children is not so easy but, the kids at Liphook Infant School were engaged and received the information willingly, which was then translated very well through their art. Considering that the Arctic is warming two to three […]
Running after school clubs with slightly older children is quite a different scenario to working with pre-school toddlers, who are capable of understanding general ideas, whereas the kids in my new club at Liphook Infant School are eager to learn exactly why things happen. There is a special area in the school’s reception dedicated to […]
At the beginning of January, Greatham Village Nursery School opened its doors for me to go in and teach their children conservation through art. The staff and kids alike were very welcoming and I began by sketching through the continued devastating effects of the Australian bushfires; a staggering one billion animals have now died and […]
