A Grand Adventure



The Reception trip to Hampshire's Harold Hillier Gardens was a roaring success. The children started off the day with pond dipping. They found loads of creatures including water nymphs, boatmen, tadpoles and newts. After that they spent some time looking really closely at colours. They had to find ten different coloured pieces of petal to decorate their caterpillars. They were careful to use pieces of flowers they found on the ground rather than picking any flowers. Children used words such as paler, darker, lighter and more blue when talking about the colours they found. Then the children went on another walk around. The went over a couple of very wobbly bridges, being careful not to make too much noise in case they disturbed any trolls. Then they fed some fish and went through a bamboo forest before returning to the education centre for a picnic lunch. After they had eaten a good lunch and had a bit of a run around it was time to get on with more learning. They went on a caterpillar walk using their sense of touch to explore trees. Next they spent time matching leaf shapes to the trees that the leaves grow on. Finally they spent time looking up into the tree tops with mirrors and thinking carefully about the creatures who lived there. At the end of the session they went and got back on the coach to return to school. It was a tiring day for everyone. In fact some children were so tired they fell asleep on the journey back home. It was a great day.

 

Thank you to all the helpers who made this trip and our previous trip to the aquarium such a success. Without you we wouldn't have been able to go!