Outdoor Learning Week

Nursery children engaged this week by learning to identify some of the trees in our school grounds such as holly, oak, sycamore, elder, horse chestnut, silver birch and willow.  We learned about the different parts of a tree, the importance of bark and how a tree gets its food and energy.  We also learned that acorns come from oak trees, conkers are found on horse chestnut, holly gets red berries in Winter and we can make a delicious drink from elderflower.  Holly is prickly but elderflower is soft “like a fairy”!