The whole school travelled to Logan Gardens today for a \u2018Lost Word\u2019 experience.\u00a0 After enjoying a yummy picnic lunch in the gardens, the children joined Kate, our ranger from the Royal Botanical Society of Edinburgh, who used poetry as exploration of\u00a0our local natural environment and biodiversity in different ways.<\/p>\n
The focus was on the book, The Lost Words, which is a collaborative project between writer Robert Macfarlane and artist Jackie Morris.\u00a0 The Lost Words celebrates the relationship between language and the living world, and of nature\u2019s power to spark the imagination. Robert Macfarlane has created a series of spell-poems \u2013 one for each lost word \u2013 while Jackie Morris, inspired by her lifelong passion for Britain\u2019s landscapes and wildlife, has painted\u00a0 watercolours and used gold leaf to take the viewer on a visual journey of nature.\u00a0 Every school in Scotland will receive a copy of this book as a result of a Crowd Funding project.<\/p>\n
The children went for a poetry walk around the garden where Kate shared examples of work describing nature using figurative language.\u00a0 They were then set the challenge of using their senses to discover the nature around them, creating a word bank to share with the group of what they found.\u00a0 The boys and girls also created natural sculpture artwork using foraged materials to represent their particular plant of study.<\/p>\n
Everyone enjoyed a lovely afternoon in the sunshine!<\/p>\n\n\t\t