Good morning boys and girls,

I hope you are getting out to enjoy the sunshine while we have it. I have been watching all the birds that visit the bird feeder at the bottom of my garden every day and I spotted two Goldfinches for the first time, so I went out and bought some Zinnia seeds (which they love) to see if I could get them to be more regular visitors. I also spotted an Orange tip butterfly and a Peacock butterfly flitting around in the garden. So beautiful.

As one of our subjects we are working on for our next Eco flag is Biodiversity we are trying to support the survival of nature and to increase the numbers and types of living things in our world. Sadly, due to impact of climate change, pollution, mining and deforestation the survival of living things is under threat like no other time in history. We can always do our bit to help the planet, which is our home, and even if we can’t do this right now in our school grounds, we can always do some things to play our part at home.

I will be adding more ideas over this next week for things you can do at home to help nature. Every little bit counts.

The RSPB or Royal Society for the Protection of birds has great learning resources online with activities that will help you learn more about the natural world. Here are some great ideas to do:

Take part in the RSPB Wild Challenge Award.  

Here is the link to the activity pages:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-families/family-wild-challenge/activities/

You probably already know that we take part every year in the RSPB schools birdwatch in January, but did you know that you can take part in this at home too. I do this every year watching and recording the numbers and types of birds that visit my garden and then sending the results to the RSPB, so they can monitor the survival of our birds. You can have a look at the results from this year’s survey using this link to see how our British bird species are doing:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/birdwatch/

If you have an outside space at home and you want to do something practical to help our feathered friends survive visit this page for some great ideas for how you can help:

https://www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/give-nature-a-home-in-your-garden/

Don’t forget to let me know how you got on with any of these activities on the comments page and take photos that you can bring in and show me when ewe get back to school. It will be good evidence towards gaining our next green flag.

Miss Brooks