The Countryside Classroom

The Countryside Classroom is a series of outdoor tours of Leighton's estate and particularly the Woodland Walk. All enable children to see life cycles and life processes in action and, most importantly, encourage them to ask questions and be actively involved.

Themes include:

The Earthwalk

A guided tour into the woodland walk area, with a series of fun educational activities for the children. The theme is a greater understanding of nature

Pupils should learn

• An appreciation of the way in which all different parts of nature are connected.
• To be able to use their senses to observe things in more detail.
• Something about the various habitats they will find on the earthwalk

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Science and Nature

Numerous activities can be organised around the theme of science and nature like pond dipping, following sand tracks or mini beast habitat study.

These activities all fit in with aspects of the science national curriculum like the KS1 units on:

• growing plants (1B)
• plants and animals in the local environment (2B)
• helping plants grow well (3B)
• habitats (4B)
• life cycles (5B)
• interdependence and adaptation (6A)

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Free science and nature worksheets