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We loved looking back at the school from above.

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5A enjoyed a walk outside the school grounds,

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5A made soup - it was DELICIOUS. We followed our own recipes that we made up.

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5A had a great time building shelters. We were pretending we had to survive like the German pilots who crashed on the moor in our book 'Friend or Foe'

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And here's a picture of the Nature poem!

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5A used natural objects to inspire them to write alliterative poems using chalk on the path.We're hoping one of them has uploaded as an audio filer here!!!!

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5A enjoyed looking at the 'Nature Table' on Monday. They were particularly interested in the wren skull and wing - they couldn't believe it was so small!

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5A were rather fantastic at cracking a phonics code, working out which natural object stood for which letter.

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4H have been consolidating their mathematical understanding of short division in the playground this morning.

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4H have enjoyed making colour wheels and exploring the school grounds to find things to match their colours

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We have been drawing sketch maps of our school grounds.

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Year 4 joined Bemma and other local schools in an Olympic themed African dance this morning.

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4H listened out for different sounds of nature in our Bluebell Wood.

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4H enjoyed pond dipping and classifying their findings!

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3M helped build the bedrooms for the exclusive Buxton Bug Hotel and got up close and personal with some of the guests!

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3M made their own banana and strawberry smoothies and discussed what makes a healthy snack.

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Year 3 enjoyed discovering all about the different species of animal that can be found around Buxton and further afield.

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3M enjoyed getting muddy and creating their own art using natural materials.

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3M visited the pond on Monday. We found and identified many living creatures and were lucky enough to see a baby frog!

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Year 6 learnt about healthy lifestyles and went outside to create their own informative television presentations.

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Year 6 measured the height and the girth of the trees, within our school grounds, which enabled them to calculate the age of the tree.

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3W explored the contents from the nature tables. It was great to touch the items and look at them closely.

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Here are 3W trying to identify the creatures found in our pond habitat.

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3W enjoyed pond dipping. They carefully identified the creatures we have living in our school pond.

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6H wrote and performed tree poetry in our very own bluebell wood.

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Here are 6H having fun and learning  in the woods. We identified 4 different species of fungus and 5 plants and used our knowledge of classification of genus and species!

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We found a horse chestnut tree!

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3W used the Woodland Trust Tree ID sheet and their app to identify the names of the trees on the school ground.

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3W used a meter stick and a tape measure to learn about the age of the trees on our school ground.

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Finally, we got to taste our smoothies!

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3W enjoyed making their own strawberry smoothies. After mashing the fruit, the children whisked the mixture with yoghurt and milk.

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3W enjoyed making their own strawberry smoothies. The second step was to mash the fruit.

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3W enjoyed making their own strawberry smoothies. First, they needed to cut the fruit.

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After building minibeast habitats, 3W used magnifying glasses to look more closely at a range of minibeasts.

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3W had a great time creating habitats for minibeasts.

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Once the children from 3W had collected twigs from the school ground, they inserted them into plastic tubes to create a home for the local minibeasts.

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3W helped build minibeast habitats. Before building, they collected twigs from the school ground.

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Seven soups cooked and sampled! Brilliant to see so many of 5CW try things they normally wouldn't, and some of our ingredients even came from the school grounds!

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5CW had a lovely time hunting bugs and dipping in the pond area.

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6BF used branch tree diagrams to identify minibeasts.

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Year 6 enjoyed an afternoon of bug hunting and pond dipping.

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Sharing our tree poems.

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5CW had a lot of fun building survival shelters in the forest school area, just like the German pilots in our novel Friend or Foe.

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Year 6 explored vertically opposite angles on the playground.

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Year 6 spent the morning learning about parts of a tree and took part in a drama and poetry activity. We performed our tree drama in Grinlow Woods.

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6BF had a fun adventure in Grinlow Woods and learnt lots about our woodland and identified plants and minibeasts.

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We all had fun pond dipping and exploring the pond area.

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Mrs Wakefield told 4D all about the things she had collected for her nature table.

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4D really enjoyed handling all the natural things from Mrs Wakefield's nature table.

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The rain didn't spoil the fun for 4D!

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5CW were captivated by wonderful storyteller Creeping Toad during the rainstorm. Ask them about the tree giants!

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4D didn't care that it was raining when we were exploring our grounds and looking for bugs.

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4D worked together to listen to the natural sounds in our school grounds.

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4D took turns and enjoyed discovering what is in our school pond.

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Miss Moseley showed 4D how to pond dip and take care of any creatures we found.

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We are so lucky to have a pond on our grounds as 4D discovered.

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4D had fun finding out what's in our pond.

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4D have enjoyed pond dipping and exploring the pond area.

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Year 6 spent a morning with Frances from Transition Buxton making flowerpot people and recycling materials to make wildlife survey equipment.

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Year 6 learnt how to cook healthily and made fruit smoothies and vegetable wholewheat tortilla pizzas.

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5CW braved the rain to look really closely at the numerous different  shades of colours in nature.  They used colour swatches to try and hunt natural objects in the school environment which matched almost exactly, not only in colour but by the shade of that colour as well.  They learned that nature provides a rich palette of different shades which can differ ever so slightly when you take a close look.

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5CW have explored Mrs Wakefield's nature collection.  They were lucky enough to handle and compare the skulls of a range of mammals including a horse, a dolphin, foxes and badgers.