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The first session of your spring nature club begins with children sharing their existing knowledge of spring and looking carefully at nature in your space to see if they can identify the changes being undertaken on the way into this season.
Combine drama with nature in this fun outdoor session all about bees! Your group will have the opportunity to role play a bee hive and then work together to attract more bees to your school grounds.
In this outdoor session, your group will benign by taking on the role of various garden birds and identification if your grounds supply them with the food they need to survive in the transition from winter to spring. They’ll then use their observations to enhance your space for birds!
Have your group unleash their creativity with some transient art to represent the various stages of a peacock butterfly’s life. You’ll spend time together discussing this and also going on a search around your grounds to spot any signs of butterfly life!
Nurture your children’s love of nature and their compassionate side for wildlife using this outdoor session, all around caring for birds during nesting season. Your group will have the chance to observe various nest building techniques and use this to create spaces for birds in your grounds.
In this final session of your after school club, your group will focus on how the changing day length affects shadows in spring, as well as having the chance to recap their knowledge of young wildlife with a fun and active starter game. Finishing with a moment of reflection around their experiences over the past 6 sessions.