Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Haytor View

Community Primary School & Nursery

Learning together ~ enjoying success ~ aiming high ~ celebrating difference ~ enriching community

Well, we’ve got our first of many trips to Decoy Park this year successfully under our belt and the children have already planned another one later next year to find out and learn about which birds live in Decoy Park. We wanted to go to the park to learn about living things, trees, to experience the seasons and to enrich and enhance our Art learning.

What a cold, but sunny day it was! (see what I did there!) We walked down to the park, (finding and returning and abandoned shopping trolley on the way) and were greeted by an empty playground full of play equipment! We had no choice really but to give the children their snack and let them loose in the play area for a few minutes.

Once this was out of the way, we settled down to a delightful day of water colour landscapes (a la Turner), a sunny picnic and an investigation to determine which trees grow in Decoy park.  Even the youngest member of our party was inspired to pick up a pencil and sketch what he saw!

By the end of the afternoon, we were all ready to get back to the school to think and talk about what we had done, ready to bring the learning back into the classroom the next day.

The following day, the children worked on describing their experiences in a recount using exclamation and question sentences to engage their audience. Do you think it worked? Ask them to read them to you and you can make your own mind up.

 

In the afternoon, we grouped and classified ALL of the leaves we had found and brought back with us to get the evidence we needed to answer the question, ‘Which trees grow in Decoy?’

Can you predict which ones we found?