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5 miles 3pm - 7pm. We travelled much further afield today - almost all the way over to Sheffield. We walked out of Grindleford, along the river Derwent initially and then up in to a NT woodland. It was lovely and cool in the woods. We saw lots of ants and their giant nests and Zooey, having just learnt about wood sorrel at woodland school was picking sorrel all the way for us to eat! We crossed the main Manchester/Sheffield railway line and walked alongside the railway for a way climbing back in to woodland again towards the end. We saw Lime trees, Sweet Chestnut, Maple, Common Alder, Rowan, Willow, Sycamore, Elder, Ash, Cherry, Oak, Hazel, Hawthorn, Beech and Birch, Swifts, magpie, robin, sparrows, ducklings, ducks, rooks, white wagtail, buzzard, chiff caff and house martin. We also saw a stag in the last bit of woodland we walked through! After the walk, at home, we sound ID'd jackdaws, chiff chaffs, blackbird, dunnock and wren (alarm call). We took a photo of a thistle which we found out at home was a specific type called Marsh Thistle.

I had a wet suit on, at our Shalford trip and so I became a human tape measure. I went quite deep and then Phillipa measured me with the tape measure to see how deep the water had got. The deepest part of the river was 1.80metres. It was taller than me. The river was warm for me because I had a winter wet suit on. We saw a few boats on the river and on the navigations. The painting was done with cotton buds and paint. I copied using a photo that I had taken on an earlier visit to The River Wey.

We walked the battlefield trail where the battle of Hastings happened in 1066.

Teddie decided to record this part of his journey by writing a diary entry. He brainstormed his ideas about what he saw and felt and then he wrote the diary using time words, thoughts and feelings.

4.3 miles 2pm - 6.30pm. Going to an area we haven’t really been to before. It’s interesting trying to fill the gaps in our map and having to choose places we wouldn’t have travelled to before. We made to start the walk and after admiring two peacocks in a camp site we walked through (and Zooey finding a peacock feather to take home!) we came to a cow filled field. We decided to go a different way round as we’re all pretty scared of cows (having been chased in the past!) but that just led to another cow filled field with cows who were bellowing quite madly. We waited for a good 10 minutes for all the cows to move down fields so we could walk across without having to go through the herd. It all worked out in the end! We walked a gravelled, tree lined track through fields and then in to a wood, keeping out of the sun most of the way. We stopped in one wood to rest, take on board a snack and do some sketching. Eventually we did break cover to make our way across one very dry sun baked field and felt a wall of heat in front of us as we walked. The grass was full of small, fast moths which landed on our clothing as we walked and then flew away just as fast. We made it back in to the shade, walking in to the village of Winter and grabbing ice lollies as we went through. It was a final steep uphill to get back to Birchover but the sun was a little less intense as it was getting later in the day and the view at the top was beautiful! The things we saw and named on sight were: Rowan, Oak, Ash, Birch, Hawthorn, Elder, Goat Willow, Holly, Sweet Chestnut, Hazel, Sycamore and Beech Trees. We saw (or heard) Peacocks, Blackbirds, Sparrows, Crows, Chiff Chaff and Tree creepers. We had recorded a blackbird, wren and robin. Our plant today was one we could name on sight too - cow parsley.

Shreya has done various pieces of work, tables, illustrations, diary entries, definitions of words etc