As part of the Year 5 science curriculum, we have been studying Animals including Humans and Living Things and their Habitats. It is clear that animals are a passion for many of the children in our year group, so these two topics have generated a lot of enthusiasm and excitement! In addition, we are required […]
Appleshaw St Peter’s CofE Primary School Gombe 60 ‘What’s living in Harmony?’ 22nd June 2021 On Tuesday 22nd June, 22 pupils from Beech class visited Harmony Woods to work with an ecologist and learn about simple wildlife surveying techniques. The children spent time surveying birds, pollinators and butterflies and were shown how to use […]
February 2021: “In our February session, we were creating pinch points along our pathways. These are areas where the path narrows and more sections of wildlife are growing around it, creating more surface area for animals to travel and plants to thrive. I personally always enjoy planting trees and this was no different, as we […]
Here at Goat Lees we are working hard on our outdoor learning area. Not only have we grown a wild meadow, dug a natural pond, built bird hides from old pallets, planted 10 native trees and 10 hedgerow shrubs for a micro-wood area but we also run our Forest School. We are very lucky to […]
Here at Goat Lees, although we are a small school with only 210 pupils, we all believe the welfare of our planet is everyone’s responsibility. We have many things that we do, day-to-day in school, to help our planet. For instance, every child that attends our school is giving a free re-useable water bottle (to […]
The ATU youth team / Andover youth shoots had a camping trip in Harmony Woods where they undertook a bat survey and a set up a moth trap. Previously they have been learning how to identify trees, and have taken part in various day-time wildlife surveys such as wildflowers, birds, and setting camera traps – but […]
Edenderry Primary students have been participating in the Globe/NASA #TreeChallenge2021 by creating their own International Padlet to collaborate and share activities globally. Activities the students were involved with include : building a clinometer to measure the heights of trees, mapping tree coverage in their school, identifying trees, taking part in NASA led webinars about satellite […]
Our Year 6 working hard to plant the trees and shrubs for their micro-wood. Here are so pictures of our children planting the trees; we are looking forward to watching it grow and see what other insects and animals it encourages into our school grounds. The place for our Micro-Wood looks […]
This week, during our sessions, we finished off pulling out the weeds of the top and bottom planters (we are going to return to the middle planter when these two are sorted). We added some more topsoil, chicken manure pellets and planted some seeds. So far we have radishes and spring onions planted. We gave them […]
Its has been very exciting for us, here at Goat Lees, as we received a long awaited delivery at the end of April. Way back, before the Covid lockdowns began, we applied for the possibility of being selected to receive some trees and shrubs from the Free Trees for Schools Appeal. The Year 6 pupils […]
