Gales, rain, thunder and Limehills School
On Monday 19th October Limehills Schoolchildren with teacher Kathy Turnbull braved some terrible weather to undertake nature studies at the Education Centre. Luckily we had Mark Oster to encourage them outside, while Chris and Bronwyn lead the potting up activities undercover in the Education Centre.
But first the children made a model of their school nature area – including live trees, tracks, buildings, and birds, insects, lizards, so they could explain to Chris exactly what their school area was like and Chris could then recommend the right native plants for their situation.
The children were also interested in the “community” aspect of the nursery as they had been studying “communities” – when asked what a community was one student said “good people make good communities”. Chris also introduced the idea of “volunteers” and “bartering” time in exchange for plants and one of the jobs for the class was potting up cabbage trees in exchange for taking plants from the nursery back to school to plant in the nature area.
Our grateful thanks to Mark Oster for making a trip into the gale force winds an “enjoyable” experience for students (and meaning that Bronwyn and I didn’t have to go outside the building!).
Posted: 22 October 2015