What beautiful weather we had for our outdoor learning day today!
We got stuck in to a wide range of learning opportunities using our outdoor environment. In the morning, we were visited by Mrs Norval Dampney of the Incredible Edible team to carry out some TLC of our fruit orchard.
We have been reducing waste by recycling and soaking cardboard to make mulch. We combined this with straw and soil and created a moisture sandwich around the base of each tree to act as a moisture reseviour to keep the roots watered on dry days.
Mrs Dampney educated the children on all things soil and plant related. Did you know that there are more microbes in one teaspoon of soil than there are humans on the planet! She promised to come back in October when the trees will be dormant to carry out some pruning with the boys and girls.
P1 -4 were Eco champions; carrying out a litter survey and a litter pick in our village. We are pleased to report very little litter was found.
Next up, P5 – 7 linked their data handling topic in maths with outdoor learning. We walked to the harbour and recorded the colours of cars we found using tally marks. We then displayed this data as a bar graph and calculated the mean, mode, median and range of our data. We grouped data such as silver and grey to minimise categories.
P1 – 4 went to the beach for a maths session using sand to draw clock faces to to tell the time.
In the afternoon, P5 – 7 had a PE session outdoors to maintain our health and wellbeing whilst P1 – 4 gathered natural materials to use for art printing as well as practicing their spelling words with chalk.
P.S. Here’s some gardening activities previousy with Kim when the children planted Casablanca and Shanon potatoes, parsley, sweet peas, pak choi, lettuce. Yum! Kim also kindly gave the willow dome a much needed ‘haircut’ today.
UNCRC:
- Article 24 – Health, Water, Food & Environment
- Article 29 – Aims of Education
