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30 days wild challenge Day 11-14

Visit to Stonehenge

We lernt about what nurdles are and how they get in to our environment. When we went to the beach we did not find any but we found lots of plastic. We picked up the plastic from the beach and put some onto the recycling and some were made into a school display.

I panted a ocean back drop and other students helped to decorate this with recycled materials.As we were doing the art work we had a discussion on how plastic gets in to our oceans.

4.1 miles 2pm - 5.30pm. We went north this time - to Holme. We wondered if the landscape would be different - and the area around was definitely different from the places we've been before because it was full moorland - but the actual area we walked through had the same sort of plants and trees as always! We did see and hear a LOT of birds though. The other thing was that although all the same trees were there this woodland was made up of more Oak trees than any other places we'd been to before. We walked down hill out of the village and to a river, straight back out and in to a plantation which we walked through for a while with lots of tiny birds flying around and singing! We walked down to Ramsden reservoir then went up on to Crow Hill (lots of birds flying up out of the grass) and then back down to Brown Hill reservoir. As well as the Oak we saw: Rowan, Hawthorn, Ash, Sycamore, Holly, Hazel, Elder, Goat Willow and Beech Trees. The plants we could ID on sight were: Dandelion, Rose, Thistle, Grass, Fern, Bluebells, Brambles and . The birds were: House Martin, Curlew, Tree Creeper, Blackbird, Coal Tit, Robin and some Geese with their Goslings on the reservoir (but there were lots we couldn't see well enough and so we now need a really big ID session to find them all out.)

As we draw to the end of term, we decided last Thursday was too nice for too much hard work! Mr Nicol went off to the local shop and came back with burgers, rolls and veggie sausages for a celebration cookout. The group did a bit of tidying up in our garden, then once the fire was going, we cooked up and had a wee feast! The group have been amazing over a mad year with lockdown in the middle. We would like to thank the SLT at Inverkeithing High for all the support, the pupils for the hard work and amazing results and wish all other John Muir groups out there all the very best, and see you after summer!

A John Muir Award group from our school made these birdboxes and put them up in 2013 in our community woodland. Each time we do the JMA, an adult checks them carefully and they are still providing a home for birds, sometimes with as many as seven eggs!

To celebrate passing our Bikeability training, we decided to have a fun mountain bike skills workshops. We practised riding in the ready position and rolled over pieces of wood. Best of all was playing 'How Low Can You Go?' where we had to see if we could shuffle our bottoms so they touched our back wheels whilst pedalling, and riding over the seesaws. Fun was had by all!