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Activities, missions and worksheets for you and your students

Gombe 60: Jane’s Story

2020 marks a major milestone for Dr Jane Goodall and the whole Roots & Shoots family around the world. The 14 July will celebrate 60 years to the day since Jane first set foot in what is now the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. She travelled there as a young woman to study the […]

My Local Area Over Time

This activity will encourage students to investigate their local area further by asking local older people who have lived in the area for some time about how the local environment has changed over the years. In this activity you and your students will: Write a questionnaire. Write to, call or visit local older people. Produce […]

Featured activity: Where does your food come from?

This activity is one of our Iceworld Activities, and is about looking at the food we eat and where it comes from – AKA food miles.    The further food travels to get from where it’s grown to our dinner plate, the more energy had gone into moving it – which means more CO2 pumped into […]

Fundraising for Big Red Box

Well done JAGS for supporting the BIG RED BOX. Just the Prep school alone has already donated 14 boxes of specified food items for the neediest families in our local community. I wonder what our whole school total will be this year? This will hopefully share a little bit of hope this Christmas. The boxes […]

Charity Christmas Market 2019

Wow, didn’t we all have fun at the Charity Christmas Market this year! Girls, parents and staff cramped into our twinkling Main Hall to consume whipped-cream hot chocolates and devour scrumptious Christmas treats while they toasted marshmallows and bought handmade Christmas treats for loved ones. Who knew we had so many budding entrepreneurs in the Prep […]

We had own clothes day to celebrate #NationalTreePlantingDay on 30/11 & fundraise for the WoodlandTrust! #BigClimateFightback We’re also very lucky to have been donated two #rowantree & #cherrytree saplings by one of our parents. Excited to watch them grow over the coming years!Tree donation A huge “thank you!” to Blaise (Y3) and her mum who donated two […]

Story of the Earth and its Life

Today we know that it has taken billions of years for life on Earth to evolve from tiny individual cells into the myriad of plants and animals that we see today.  This lesson plan is designed to bring the story of the early days of the Earth and the evolution of life as we know […]