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Bird Cake & Recycling
The children have been learning about recycling and looking after birds. First they used these oranges to make orange juice and then,...
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Mar 21, 20221 min read
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CATKINS
Last week in schools the children explored different catkins and they concentrated very well when using scissors to cut them off their...
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Feb 14, 20221 min read
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HAPPY HALF TERM
Last week in schools we were looking at catkins.If you are looking for half term activities how about going for a walk and seeing how...
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Feb 14, 20221 min read
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So lucky to have such positive comments
Evie-Mae (age 4) and I talked about why she likes coming along to your sessions and this is what she said: ‘I like raking the leaves,...
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Jan 31, 20221 min read
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Snowdrops
We have one space for our snowdrop rescue on Saturday from 10-12. If anyone would like to join in please email me and I’ll give you more...
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Jan 17, 20221 min read
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🎉🎉WILLA'S WINNER 🎉🎉
Happy New Year & I hope you were able to enjoy it and let's hope 2022 is a better one. Thank you to everyone who rented trees and also to...
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Jan 10, 20221 min read
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Children's Creativity
The children have been making Christmas presents for their families. They were all given a selection of objects from nature to chose from...
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Dec 6, 20211 min read
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Workshops in School - Camouflage
After talking about poppies and soldiers The children experimented with the camouflage concept by disguising the toy soldiers on leaves....
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Nov 29, 20211 min read
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Trees are for life not just for Christmas
Some of you know that we have a small farm outside Stanstead Abbotts and we are passionate about looking after the wildlife on it. We do...
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Nov 22, 20211 min read
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Baby Mice
While sorting out the scarecrows we noticed that the mice had been busy nesting in the scarecrows boots! I have never seen baby mice...
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Sep 27, 20211 min read
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Workshops
Our next workshops will be : Saturday 2nd October 2pm to 4pm. Friday 29th October 12pm to 2pm.
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Sep 21, 20211 min read
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Cucumber twins
We can learn all about contrasts in the Walled Garden, big little, fat thin, sweet sour…. Slimey dry….. Thank you to my lovely helpers on...
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Sep 21, 20211 min read
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Almost Ready
We are slowly smartening up our Scarecrow family. It’s the adults next ….
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Sep 13, 20211 min read
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Sustainable Schools
I was given a donation for my Nature Workshops in schools and I think it is very important that children learn from an early age about...
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Sep 13, 20211 min read
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Festive sustainability
Without wanting to mention the festive season at the end of the year. I want to draw your attention to what I believe is the most...
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Sep 6, 20211 min read
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Mr Scarecrow
Great team yesterday. Thank you for all your help. Daniel and Mickey got to work rejuvenating the scarecrows …
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Sep 1, 20211 min read
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We've received amazing feedback from our school workshops!
Look at the great impact that our nature workshops are having on our attendee's: "Joseph has loved attending your class, he is so excited...
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Aug 20, 20211 min read
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Listen to Gini Trower's interview with Knowing Nature where she tells all about her nature activites
Gini Trower, the freelance educator talks about her afterschool clubs and nursery groups and shares her experience getting started as a...
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Aug 16, 20211 min read
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Work In Progress
Monday 16 August. Can you guess which scare crow face won the competition at our last workshop On Thursday? So many inquisitive minds...
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Aug 16, 20211 min read
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Bedraggled Scarecrows
As you can see, due to lockdown, our scarecrows are starting to look very bedraggled. We have just had a cancellation for Thursday’s...
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Aug 9, 20211 min read
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