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We love food! So cooking some food on the camp fire on a chilly autumn day was a nice experience. We had hot drinks each time accompanied by food such as soup, camp fire bread, hot bananas, apples and pears, hot dogs and potatoes (which we grew ourselves). Sharing food around the campfire is one of our favourite things to do and develops our social skills.

Each year we get many bulbs from 'Bulbs4kidz' and plant them across our school grounds. We learn about the different parts of the bulbs and name a few spring flowers which will appear next year. This is part of our conservation work and we have begun to look at food chains and naming producers, consumers, prey and predators. We will learn more about the importance of these flowers and how they contribute to food chains.

Both classes of pupil planted bulbs in different areas of the school. We were asked to remember when we planted our own bulbs so that we could check the progress as we move into spring. Some lovely team work came out of this activity. A couple of pupils worked together to put more soil in the raised bed and communicated with each other well.

Rain doesn't stop play for us! In fact it makes it more fun. K here is always well prepared for all weathers for her John Muir lessons and prefers to be in wellies most of the time! Sometimes nothing beats splashing in puddles no matter how old or young you are! Playing in the rain has given us opportunities to learn about the importance of water to all living things. We have observed how the grass was almost burnt in the dry summer and now it is flooded from heavy downpours.

Today we started by creating a mindmap of what 'wildlife' is. We then learnt the words flora and fauna and what these meant. We progressed our discussions onto food chains and are learning what producers, consumers, prey and predators contribute to the natural world. Some of us explored our outside grounds and identified different producers and consumers. Others of us talked about the whole food chain.

Beds started Bed 1 complete Fruit trees all trimmed Borders in place

Greenhouse up 100% Bug house started

Bed 1 ready