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Outdoor Learning
Summer 1 2024
Week 2
Week 5
Spring 2 2024
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Spring 2 2024
This afternoon Reception class have planted beans. We are planning to make a giant beanstalk. Who or what might we find at the top? Lots of discussion and ideas. Today we talked about what might happen to the bean as it grows. We used words such as root, stalk, stem, leaves …
Week 3
Spring 2024
Week 2
Spring 2 2024
Orange class outdoor learning focused on building ‘free standing’ bird hides. Super team work and cooperation shown.
Week 2
Spring 2 2024
Muddy Mondays in Blue Sea & Blue Sky
Week 1
Spring 2 2024
Red class have been using their knowledge of birds to answer Mrs Roberts questions- which bird has a different coloured male and female? Which colour cap does a Great Tit have? Which bird has the same name as the Newcastle football team?
The children were challenged to build bird hides to watch the birds at our feeders. They had to build structures that were free standing.
They also helped with starting off our fire pit area and making looms to weave with and their own ‘stick men’.
Week 6
Spring 1 2024
Jade Class have been using their knowledge from previous Outdoor Learning to draw birds we might find in our school grounds. They used their ‘sketching’ skills and techniques learnt in drawing such as hatching. Can you name any of the birds?
Week 3
Spring 1 2024
Yellow and Green class gardening club members made ‘Idea Boards’ to think about what we might plan later this spring. The flower cosmos was a firm favourite!
Week 2
Spring 1 2024
Reception class - Blue Sea & Blue Sky
Week 2
Spring 2 2024
Yellow class gardening club this term. The ground was frozen solid so we helped Mrs Roberts move some donations of wood slices and wood chip to the Early Years yard. We also added some new bird spotting posters to the Quiet area / gazebo.
Week 2
Spring 1 2024
Orange Class sketching in Outside Learning today. We used these sketches to inspire our own collages of buildings. The children designed hotels, water parks, houses, sky scrapers …
Week 2
Spring 2 2024
HOT CHOCOLATE TO END OUR MUDDY MONDAY SESSION TODAY
Week 1
Spring 2 2024
MUDDY MONDAYS in Blue Sea and Blue Sky class.
SPRING 2024
Week 7
Autumn 2
The last week of Gardening club for Orange class members. THANK YOU for all your help.
Today we finished weeding the flower bed in the School Raised Beds and then we enjoyed a short play in the EYFS yard.
Week 5
Orange Class Outdoor Learning
Land Art inspired by the artist Richard Long. Orange class collected leaves from the raised beds to make group art work based on his concentric circles.
Week 5
Autumn 2 - Gardening Club Red & Orange Class
Today we finished planting some last minute donations of daffodil and red onion bulbs. We hid the daffodils in the EYFS yard. They will bring lots of lovely colour in the Spring.
Autumn 2
Week 4
Autumn 2
Week 3
Yellow class outside learning - looking at our different school habitats and making our own Land Art
Autumn 2
Week 2
Purple class Outdoor Learning today involved making our own Andy Goldsworthy inspired rainbows.
Autumn 2
Week 2
Red and Orange classes turn for gardening club this term. Orange class conducted a litter pitch and we are pleased to say that we at Morpeth All Saints are good at using the bins as we found very little. Great job!
Red class carried on planting the bulbs for our BLOOMING BULB initiative. Where have they’re planted them?
Autumn 2 Week 1
Red Class Outdoor Learning
Taking inspiration from the artist Richard Long and his land art.
Autumn 2 Week 1
ECO Committee have been planting your donated bulbs. THANK YOU
Autumn 2
Week 1
Muddy Mondays in Blue Sea and Blue Sky
Autumn 1 2023
Week 8
Gardening club with Blue Sea
We planted some of the donated bulbs today outside Jade class. We cannot wait until they grow in the spring.
Autumn 1 2023
Week 7
Jade class had an inside Outside Learning. We combined learning about trees and completing our Art topic this term on drawing. The children added texture to their pine cones, beech, sycamore and red oak leaves.
Autumn 1 2023
Week 7
Blue Sea & Blue Sky
Autumn 1 2023
Week 6
Blue sea Gardening Club
Autumn 1
Week 6
Blue Sea & Blue Sky
Today we found out about our sense of TOUCH.
We started off by talking about two opposite textures - rough and smooth. Other words were suggested such as bumpy, knobbly, soft …
The children had to find something to go in both the sorting hoops. One rough and one smooth.
We then used Mrs Roberts FEELY BAG to sort other objects - wood, metal, plastic, material …
Autumn 1 Week 5
Blue Sea & Blue Sky
This week we explored the sense of TASTE. We had to decide which fruit we liked the best. Would it be blackcurrants (jam and crackers), strawberries (in strawberry yogurt) and homegrown cucumbers.
We used our maths vocabulary to describe which was the most popular in our class.
Autumn 1 Week 4
Blue Sea Gardening club
Clearing and tidying the EYFS yard garden today. We found mini cucumbers hiding and lots of worms under the old wood we moved.
Autumn 1 2023
Week 4
Autumn 1 2023
Week 3
Autumn 1 2023
Week 2
Red class explored using identification charts to identify trees, leaves and herbs. With the rain, some children decided to build their own shelters. Co-operation, sharing and compromise were very evident. We also had the chance to see a toad, up close.
Autumn 1 2023
Week 2
Gardening club for Blue Sea. The children planted a new corner of the EYFS yard. They planted Jasmine, Californian Lilac, a dwarf fruit tree and Ox- Eye daisies. Next year we will hopefully have lots of beautiful flowers.
Autumn 1 2023
Week 2
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Week 6
Summer 2 2023
CLIMATE WEEK 3RLT 2023
Week 6
Summer 2 2023
Week 5
Summer 2 2023
Today we hunted for mini beasts and creatures in the outside learning area. This learning followed the interests of one of our morning children the previous week. We found different ways of collecting the creatures. We laid a white cloth under the tree canopy and shook the leaves. We found, caterpillars, spiders, shield bugs, moths …
we also looked under logs, in the long grass …
Week 4
Summer 2 2023
Blue class outside learning today involved a challenge. Mrs Roberts asked the children to draw a map of the EYFS yard. Look at their fantastic maps.
Week 4
Summer 2 2023
Orange class year 3’s really impressed Mrs Roberts with their knot tying this afternoon. They showed perseverance and lots of patience.
Week 4
Summer 2 2023
Yellow class outside learning today involved lots of team games. The children then practised their knots, making their own natural materials mobile. They used a range of different objects, some collected from the OL area and others from the OL store.
Week 5
Summer 2 2023
Orange class gardening club weeded one of the raised beds to make way for some leeks. They also help clear some of the weeds that had grown in the pumpkin patch and in the Three Sisters bed.
Week 4
Summer 2 2023
Week 3
Summer 2 2023
Week 1
Summer 2 2023
Blue Sea and Blue Sky
The children were given two tasks. The first was to use their knot tying skills learnt a few weeks ago. The second was to make their own dens, using tarps and clips. The children were very inventive. They made tunnels on the trench, used branches up against a tree and the fence to hell make their own structures.
Week 6
Summer 1 2023
Week 6
Summer 1 2023
Jade class outdoor learning. We played the ‘Is this a stick game?’ Sticks became an electrical guitar, handle bars on a bike, a sword, a dancing cane …
pother activities involved bird watching (WE HAVE TWO LOTS OF NESTING BLUE TITS), crafting, tug of war, balancing, cinema building, mini beast spotting …
Super balancing
Week 6
Summer 1 2023
ECO Committee had their Summer 1 meeting today. Red class members shared their achievements on the THINK BIG challenge. They told us all about the compost bins and how we could help on the playground by telling everyone not to put their food waste in the bin but in the compost bin instead.
They helped plant the THREE SISTERS in the raised beds. They are sweetcorn, pumpkins and beans.
Mrs Roberts also explained about the up and coming CLIMATE FESTIVAL in July and asked them to make posters for the Toy and Book sale.
Week 6
Summer 1 2023
Week 5
Summer 2023
Week 5
Summer 1 2023
Green class gardening club today planted some new climbing plants on the trellis behind the shed on the playground. They planted the perennial sweet pea and a clematis.
Will they grow as tall as our gardening group members?
Week 5
Summer 1 2023
Week 4
Summer 1 2023
Week 4
Summer 1 2023
Week 4
Summer 1 2023
GREEN CLASS OUTDOOR LEARNING
Today the children had a chance to find out about the creatures they might find in our Outdoor Learning area habitat. They had to find to try and find all the mini beasts on the Woodland Trust spotter sheets.
They followed the rules about keeping both themselves and the mini beats safe.
Week 4
Summer 1 2023
Mrs Steeles class have been planting pepper seeds. They have popped them into the EYFS greenhouse to start off their growth. They will stay warm and cosy and hopefully grow big and strong.
they are joining our cucumbers and tomatoes.
Week 4
Summer 1 2023
Jade class were very keen to show Mrs Roberts their 5 butterflies. Tomorrow they are going to release them into the wild. What a great job they have done and what a super, first hand experience, watching the changes that have happened.
Week 4
Summer 1 2023
Green class gardening club started to weed the raised beds ready to plant out all the vegetables that we are currently ‘hardening off’ in the EYFS yard.
They also moved the leaves into our new LEAF LITTER composter and did some GORILLA GARDENING. They have hidden some nasturtium seeds - let’s hope that they start to grow soon.
Week 3
Summer 1 2023
Today was our first Outside Learning lesson and Blue class did a FABULOUS job helping Mrs Roberts plant a new hedge in the EYFS yard. We have added a real selection of plants from Holly to Beech and Buddlejia to Forget me nots.
The children also extended their learning about the very hungry caterpillar by finding lots of new ‘signs of Spring’. They could choose a spotter sheet and fill it in. They spotted blossom, bees, birds, new leaves …
Next week we will be using tools and learning how to safely work with spades, forks and trowels. We are also hoping to work in the school garden and maybe plant some vegetables.
Week 2
Summer 1 2023
RED CLASS are well on the way with their THINK BIG CHALLENGE.
Week 1
Summer 1 2023
Finally we had our Spring term ECO Committee meeting today.
Jade class explained how they had finished their part of the Think Big challenge and had built a SUPER bug hotel (palace!) in our outside learning area.
It gave everyone else a prompt to start / finish their challenge.
For our next meeting each class will explain how far they have come and what they are doing to complete their class challenge.
Week 1
Summer 1 2023
Today the nursery children helped Mrs Roberts dig over and plant new seeds in the wildlife raised bed. This can be found in the school garden. Please do ask your children to take you there and tell you what they have done.
Look at how much our seedlings have grown. We have sweetcorn, tomatoes, sunflowers, pumpkins and beans.
Week 5
Spring 2 2023
The boys from Blue class today helped spring clean / tidy the EYFS tyre beds. They also planted some bulbs and corms so we will have some lovely summer flowers.
Week 5
Spring 2
Nursery children have been making bird hides today and filling up the bird feeding station. We even noticed that we had new residents in one of our bird boxes - a pair of blue tits.
Some children helped fill the top layer of the bug hotel with suitable materials and others made trains, found dinosaur footprints, planted shrubs and even made their own sculptures.
We had a visitor to the nursery bird house today. Can you spot the robin?
Week 4
Spring 2
Week 3
Spring 2
In the nursery we have been planting lots of different vegetable seeds. We set up a little experiment to see if seeds would grow without light / sun or water.
Week 3
Spring 2
Week 2
Spring 2
Jade class have been very busy this afternoon. They helped Mrs Baker plant some new saplings. They also built their own slides for transporting confers, made balancing beams and found ways to stop them moving, built dens and made their own wands! Busy children! We are working on our listening skills and trying to promote ‘fair’ play in our games and activities.
Week 1
Spring 2
The start of a new term and a new science topic in Jade class.
Week 6
Spring 1 2023
WELL DONE JADE CLASS
The first class to complete our THINK BIG CHALLENGE. Never mind it being a bug hotel, I think we should call it the bug palace! Well done.
Week 6
Spring 1 2023
Jade enjoyed working outside with Mrs Baker and Mr O’Halloran today. Lots of new games, fun and laughter.
Week 5
Spring 1 2023
The boys in Blue class added a little bit of colour to our outside planters today. They also spotted lots of bulbs peaking their heads out of the soil.
Week 5
Spring 1 2023
CAN YOU SPOT A ROBIN? Today we learnt all about the bird called a robin. We even had one visit the bird table during our outside learning session.
Week 3
Spring 1 2023
GARDENING CLUB
Today the boys helped Mrs Roberts plant the conkers that the nursery children found yesterday. They also helped weed the planters in the EYFS yard and entrance.
REMEMBER
A weed is a plant but just in the wrong place!
We were making room for the bulbs to grow.
Week 3
Spring 1 2023
NURSERY experienced PUSHES and PULLS this week. We started off with the story of the Enormous Turnip, pretending to pull it out of the ground. In outside learning we remembered how to move heavy logs - by pushing them and making them roll. We used our brand new wheelbarrows and pushed materials around the site. Mrs Roberts and Miss Cameron even played 'Tug of War'.
MORNING NURSERY
Whilst moving some conkers the girls noticed that some of them had split open. Mrs Roberts told us that they are shoots. We kept some to plant. Do you think we can grow a Horse chestnut tree?
AFTERNOON CHILDREN
Our first session outside. Lots to explore and lots of new routines to learn.
Week 2
Spring 1 2023
Blue Sky have GARDENING CLUB this half term. Today the boys helped move the equipment from the old outside storage box to the new shed in the EYFS yard. We used the wheel barrow and our BIG muscles!
HIBERNATING FROG ALERT - we think we have a visitor under one of our decking panels. We have provided it with some more cover by covering it with dead leaves and also put up a DO NOT ENTER strip.
Week 2
Spring 1
Orange class outdoor learning produced some lovely art work in the snow!
Week 7
Autumn 2
Blue Sea gardening group today thought about what they would like grow in the early years raised beds next year.
They talked about what they might like to grow and where they would go. We have a fruit, flower and herb tyre and a super new, oblong raised bed.
Week 6
Autumn 2
Blue Class Gardening club
Today we took cuttings of geraniums and brought them into our new potting shed. Thus will hopefully mean than we have new plants for our tubs next year.
Week 6
Autumn 2
Yellow class have been investigating their THINK BIG CHALLENGE. They have been making posters to explain what it means and also seeing the difference 1 person, 25 people (our class) and 233 (our school ) could make if we went MEAT FREE on a Monday.
Week 5
Autumn 2
In nursery today we were challenged to follow the arrows and find red squirrel. He was hiding in the habitat pile. We also made trails to follow by scattering porridge oats.
Week 5
Autumn 2
Today Blue Sea and Blue Sky had a busy outdoor session. They thought of lots of activities to do. Filling and making trails, building dens, bridges and pirate ships, making Xmas decorations and stars. What a busy time they had. Can you spot the hedgehog who was hiding from us?
Week 4
Autumn 2
Blue Sea started gardening club this week. They helped plant some saplings in the nursery bed. They planted hazel, rowan, crab apple and elder.
Week 3
Autumn 2
Today with bad weather forecast we planned to involve the children on some Commando Joe activities. They were based around the event THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON. The activities promoted communication, listening, team work …
THEY HAD SO MUCH FUN!
Week 3
Autumn 2
ECO COMMITTEE
THINK BIG!
Week 3
Autumn 2
Today we looked at what the wind had done to our trees. The children helped make their own leaf kebabs. They collected leaves in a range of different colours and shapes and skewered them onto their own stick.
Week 1
Autumn 2
Children in Blue class have been using natural materials to make their own art work.
Autumn 2
Week 1
Today in their new Science topic the children were asked to observe and find out about mini beasts in three different habitats in our school grounds. They found, earthworms, caterpillars, beetles, spiders, slugs, snails …
Great news - our raised beds have been renewed. Thank you to the Cameron, Smithson and Roberts families for all your hard work over the half term holidays.
Conkers Bonkers - Fabulous Art Work
We used just conkers to make our pictures. Each class was tasked with making their own work of art. What can you see?
Week 6
Autumn 1
YELLOW CLASS Gardening Club
Clearing pots and beds, dead heading, finding mini beasts. We also added some of our cuttings to the Habitat pile in the OL area.
CONKERS BONKERS - You are all collecting a fantastic amount of conkers. THANK YOU
Autumn 1
Week 5 ORANGE CLASS
This week Orange class were FANTASTIC. They stood out with their listening skills and had very interesting ideas for their own play. We had sculptures that moved, dinner tables set with furniture, crockery and food ...
Mrs Baker set a challenge - to find and name three different leaves and lots of people persevered to make their own God's eye.
Autumn 1
Week 5
In the Early Years this week we have been focusing on talking about the natural world around us. What colours can we see and how are things changing around us at this time of year. Autumn has been what we have been looking for.
NEW SIGNS FOR OUR OUTSIDE LEARNING AREA
Autumn 1
Week 4 Yellow Class
Today we explored the trees in our Outside Learning area. We met some trees - the acer, rowan, beech and white beam. The children were asked to look carefully at the leaves and draw what they could see. Some added their seeds and fruit. We talked about adding tone and some hatching.
The children also had the chance to make God’s eyes (a simple weaving craft) and select their own activity. We had very imaginative den building - even adding security cameras!
Autumn 1 2022
Week 4
Blue Sea and Blue Sky
Today we met the tree called the ‘Acer’. We found it’s 🍁 leaves (shaped like a hand with five fingers) and it’s seeds.
Our learning today involved thinking about how to keep fit and looking after our bodies. We took part in an obstacle course laid out by Mrs Roberts. We had to go over, under, around etc. Mrs Roberts encouraged us to make our own courses.
Autumn 1 Week 3
Green Class: Today we met lots of different trees. The red oak, lime, rowan and acer. We found their leaves and some of their seeds / fruit. The children made some wonderful observational drawings and took part in other activities of their own choosing.
Autumn 1 Week 2
Purple Class: In Key Stage one this term we are talking about God's beautiful Creation and making 'God's Eyes'. These take lots of concentration and perseverance.
We are also using our drawing skills from art to undertake observational drawings of leaves. We have looked at the red oak, lime, beech, rowan and whitebeam.
Autumn 1 Week 2
Outside Learning with nursery and reception class. We were introduced to a beech tree and made bridges for the goats and ourselves to climb over.
Welcome Back to our new school year 2022 - 2023
'BIN IT TO WIN IT' entries displayed at the Town Hall in Morpeth July 2022
Over the SUMMER HOLIDAYS have a think. Would you like to be on the school's Eco Committee next year? We will be looking for new members in the Autumn term.
THANK YOU to the outgoing members of our ECO Committee. We had a picnic and afternoon of Outside Learning as a THANK YOU for all your help over the past few years.
Indigo Class - Week 5: Picking soft fruit in the school garden. Delicious strawberries and big, round blackcurrants.
Week 5: Summer 2 2022: Yellow class outdoor learning. Today we talked all about looking after ourselves, each other and nature whilst working outside. The children made a three stranded prompt to help them remember the rules, they were introduced to the LIME tree and could choose their own activities.
Week 4: Summer 2: Blue class gardening club helped clear and water the onion bed. We found some beetroot plants hiding! We also picked a box full of gooseberries.
Summer 2: Week 4: 2022: Today in nursery we went on a walk around the school gardens and playing field to find natural materials to go in our potions. We had read 'What is in the witches' kitchen?' by Nick Sharratt
"Make a potion, Make a potion, Stir it round, Stir it round, Sprinkle on some __________, Sprinkle on some __________, Whizz, Bang Pop, Whizz, Bang, Pop".
Week 3: Summer 2: Blue class planted nurseries bean plants and planted up the pots in our reflection area.
Week 3: Summer 2; Blue class gardening club. Today we cleared a bed in the main school garden preparing it in readiness for putting in the nurseries bean plants. We also dead headed the beautiful calendula flowers to make more grow!
We also spotted: gooseberries, strawberries and black currants. We gave them a water. With a little more sunshine they will be ready to eat soon!
Week3: Summer 2: Using maps in Indigo class today. The bear had hidden some treasure for us to find. We then made maps and hid our own treasure chests. 'X' marks the spot!
Week 2: Summer 2: THANK YOU to our local BEAVER (SCOUT) colony..
The Beaver colony offered to come and help in our Outside Learning area. They moved wood chip to mulch the new tree saplings, increased the habitat pile, dug the trench and played lots of games. We are looking forward to the next time you visit..
Week 2: Summer 2: Using SPOTTER books and sheets to record what we find in nursery Outdoor Learning.
BLUE CLASS: Gardening Club: Week 1 Summer 2: Today we added new seedlings to the EYFS raised beds.
Red class - Week 1 Summer 2: OUTSIDE LEARNING
Summer 1 Week 5 2022: Nursery Outside Learning: Using the outdoor space - creating houses for the three pigs (last weeks nursery theme), creating obstacle courses for jumping and balancing, hiding in the long grass, moving logs, going camping and even eating pizza! Wow - we were busy today.
Summer 1 Week 4: Look what is growing in our school garden; wild flowers, cabbages, carrots, leeks, beetroot, onions, strawberries currants ...
Summer 1 Week 4 2022: Today Jade & Purple class combined for Gardening club and helped weed the KS1 cabbage patch. We found some oak and calendula seedlings hidden in amongst the weeds. We also raised the netting to try and stop butterflies laying their eggs on our cabbage leaves. Look at the 'before' and 'after' shots. Well done.
SUMMER 1: Week 3: GREEN class Outdoor Learning. Fabulous creations made to day when given the challenge of creating a 'safe' place to keep an egg.
SUMMER 1 2022: Indigo class: Today the children decided what activities they wanted to do. Look at what they selected:
SUMMER 1 2022: Purple class Gardening club: Today we mulched the butterfly garden. Lots of co-operation and super manners when walking through the EYFS yard.
SUMMER 1 2022: PURPLE class outdoor learning. Today we made 'safe places' for the mystery creature inside the egg. The children had to think about the materials they used and also how to keep the egg safe from predators.
SUMMER 1 2022: Week 1: JADE Outside Learning: Moving out 'mountain' of wood chip and making gifts for our creature (in the mystery egg)!
The children made nests, toys, musical instruments, homes, slime ...
SUMMER 1: WEEK 1: Jade gardening club helped clean out and replant the pots at the entrance to our school. They added bulbs for spring next year too!
Summer 1: Week 1: Nursery planted woodland plants kindly donated to us for our new Forest School area. Mrs Cameron dug a trench and had lots of helpers planting and watering.
We also noticed lots of new growth!
THANK YOU to the Woodland Trust: We applied and were lucky enough to be awarded with over one hundred new trees, which will arrive in November 2022.
RED CLASS: OUTDOOR LEARNING WEEK 6: Thinking about our new Forest School area and moving the wood chip to make our new wood floor.
SPRING 2: WEEK 6: Planting seedlings and dwarf green beans
WEEK 6: SPRING 2 2022: A fantastic song from a blackbird spotted whilst nursery were bird watching this afternoon..
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Spring 2 2022: Week 5: Eco Committee took part in the Keep Britain Tidy Great Spring Clean Up.
SPRING 2: WEEK 5: Nursery class went on a 'MINI BEAST HUNT'. What did they find? worms, earwigs, millipedes, woodlice, spiders, beetles ...
SPRING 2: WEEK 4: Yellow class gardening club. Helping to move more wood chip and feeding the birds.
SPRING 2: WEEK 4: Red & Orange gardening club helped move the woodchip around our new saplings. They have been given a cardboard collar which will hopefully control the grass. The woodchip acts as a mulch to cool the soil and reduce evaporation. Plus it looks wonderful!
SPRING 2: WEEK 4: Purple Class have been using natural materials to make their own framed pictures of plants. This work is linked to their work in science about naming the different parts of plants.
THANK YOU to Mrs Baker for securing us a mountain of woodchip! We are going to use it to create a large shrub bed alongside the EYFS yard and also in the new raised beds in the EYFS area. Yellow class gardening group moved six loads. What a great job!
RED & ORANGE CLASS GARDENING CLUB: Clearing the herb beds together.
NURSERY OUTSIDE LEARNING: Today we used the story about Zach the duck as a stimulus to build nests. The children led their learning and we ended up making a nest for a pterodactyl!
RED & ORANGE CLASS Gardening Club: Week 2: SPRING 2: Working on the EYFS 'NEW' raised beds.
THANK YOU to all parents who donated their points to our school. We have bird boxes, bug hotels, new trowels, trugs and seeds to plant in the spring. Thank you to Ms Cameron for also putting them up in our outside area.
SPRING 2 2022: Nursery tried out a new way of hunting for mini beasts. We lay a white cloth under a tree and then shook the branches with long sticks. We found ladybirds, spiders, flies ...
The first day of SPRING - what a wonderful sight of new Spring bulbs in the EYFS yard.
SPRING 2 2022: WEEK 1: Red & Orange class GARDENING CLUB. Working on the EYFS new raised beds.
SPRING 2 2022: WEEK 1:YELLOW CLASS: Outside Learning. Today we found out all about how to recognise birds we might see in the school grounds. The children took part in a bird watch and made their own bird feeders.
SPRING 1 2022: Week 7: YELLOW CLASS GARDENING CLUB: Super help given tidying up the reflection area.
Spring 1 2022: Week 7: RED CLASS outdoor learning today. We made our own bird feeders out of natural resources and took part in some bird watching.
SPRING 1 2022: Week 7: Orange & Green Class Gardening Club. Today we worked on tidying the strawberry beds and continued our work on the new EYFS raised beds
SPRING 1 2022: Week 7: Investigating materials suitable to make an umbrella for Incey Wincey Spider.
SPRING 1 2022: Green Class Outdoor Learning
In OUTSIDE LEARNING Green class found out all about The RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch. They learnt how to identify birds that they might see and made bird feeders, to take home. They took part in the BBC Winter Watch Live Lesson and identified the different parts of birds, read and used information off bar charts and learnt how to use a classification key
SPRING 1 2022: WEEK 4: Exploring 'LIGHT' through nursery rhymes and outside learning.
SPRING 1 2022: Yellow Class: Learning how to use a spade
Digging over the old herb bed
SPRING 1 2022: Week 3: Purple Class Outdoor Learning today. We have learnt how to identify birds that we might see in our school grounds. We learnt new words to describe and classify them, such as crown, breast, claws .. We made bird feeders and also completed a bird survey.
SPRING 1 2022 2022: Red & Orange Class Gardening Club: When uncovering the herb bed today we found a family of field mice. We left the bed so they could move and find a new home.
So we started clearing the EYFS yard vegetable area.
SPRING 1 2022: Week 3: Nursery: Using the ipads to take and edit videos and photographs.
SPRING 1 2022: Week 2: JADE CLASS Outdoor Learning: We learnt all about the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch. This involved identifying and counting birds, making bird feeders for home and school and how we display data in bar charts
Spring 1 2022: Week 2: GARDENING CLUB with Red and Orange Class. Today we helped to tidy and prepare the 'Quiet Area' of our school playground for the children in Jade class. i
SPRING 2022: A beautiful start to this year. A robin sang to the afternoon nursery. WOW!
Getting ready for the:
Enticing the birds into our Outdoor Learning area.
AUTUMN 7: Gardening Club: Blue Sea and Blue Sky: Thank you to all of reception class for such great help this half term. We ended our last session by weeding the pots at the main entrance and adding a few new flowers.. They look fantsatic
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 7: Indigo Class 'Outside Learning' session. We enjoyed a number of activities today - decorating a stick Christmas tree, making bird food, icicles and planting trees. the children were very creative with their own independent play too!
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 7: Nursery class helped Ms Cameron plant a row of Silver Birch trees. These saplings have been donated by Northumberland county Council.
AUTUMN 2: Week 6: BLUE CLASS helped to clear the nursery wildlife garden. Hard work but lots of fun.
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 5: Tree Planting. Today Orange class helped plant a copse of Rowan, Wild Cherry and Hawthorn as part of our creation of an outside learning area.
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 5: Orange Class: Outside Learning / Science: Investigating soil formation and carrying out a 'fair test'.
AUTUMN 2: Week 5: BLUE CLASS: Preparing the circle for our planting of a copse of trees
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 5:Investigating how ice is made
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 4: Gardening Club with Blue Class
Today in gardening club we were preparing some branches to make a wooden, natural Christmas tree for our Outside Learning area. The children helped select and strip the branches of whips and then thread them into the frame made of string. Great job and lots of fun pretending to be reindeers on our way back to class. can you see them galloping through the arches?
AUTUMN 2: Week 3: Celebrating INTERFAITH Week by making our Mandala symbols out of natural materials.
AUTUMN 2: Week 3: Indigo Gardening club
AUTUMN 2 : Week 2: Indigo Class Gardening Club
Clearing the KS2 raised bed and harvesting the squash. We found lots of wiggly worms like in the song 'There's a worm at the bottom of the garden'.
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 2: Harvesting our carrots planted by last years GARDENING CLUB. Thank you - now you get to eat your own 'school grown' carrots.
Autumn 2: Week 2: BLUE CLASS Gardening Club
Today we were so busy. We had a new group of children from Ms Thwaites class. The boys helped cover the pond to stop it filling with leaves. Planting cabbages and harvesting sweetcorn.
Autumn 2: Week1: the first meeting of our Eco Committee this term. Please see the attached meeting agenda and job for this first terms meeting.
The pictures above show the area at the front of the school just behind the Early Years yard. Mrs Roberts already uses it on a weekly basis with the nursery but we would like to develop it more so that the whole school can use it as an Outside Learning space.
Each class has been asked to answer the questions below:
What would you like to see built here? We already have the hard standing for a fire pit. What else could we add? Let your imaginations go wild! Write a list or draw pictures /or a map?
Autumn term Meeting 1 (04.11.21)
AUTUMN 2: WEEK 1: A visit from a very cheeky, tame magpie. He even had a drink out of one of our tyres, only a metre away from the children watching
WEEK 7: GARDENING CLUB: JADE, PURPLE & GREEN CLASS
Thank you for all your help this term. You have been a fantastic gardening team.
WEEK 6: GARDENING CLUB: GREEN CLASS
WEEK 6: OUTDOOR LEARNING: An Autumn Walk for the nursery children
Today we went on an Autumn walk around the school grounds. We each had our own bucket and were asked to collect any items we found. We talked about the changes we could see happening and after we had eaten our snack we emptied our buckets and took a picture of what we had collected.
WEEK 5: GREEN CLASS: GARDENING CLUB
Green class helped strip and plant whips to make new arches for our outdoor learning area. These are an experiment to see if they will root and grow. Thank you - you worked hard, stripping the leaves from the whips.
MORPETH ALL SAINTS OUTDOOR LEARNING 2021 - 2022
ORANGE CLASS
Our first Outdoor Learning session this year!
Over the next three weeks Orange class will be learning ART and FRENCH through OUTSIDE LEARNING. In art we have been continuing our work inspired the artist John Brunsdon and looking really closely at objects and then the wider landscapes. In French we have been learning our colours and numbers in a 'colour' treasure hunt.
WEEK 5: GARDENING CLUB: PURPLE CLASS
WEEK 5: GARDENING CLUB: JADE CLASS
With the weather being bad and all the torrential rain we decided to look forward to next year. We thought about all the fruit and vegetables we might like to grow in our raised beds.
It made us think about where and how certain fruit are grown.
WEEK 4: GARDENING CLUB: GREEN CLASS
Today we have been clearing the leaves from the beds in the Reflection Area ready to plant bulbs. We found lots of interesting creatures and talked about hibernation (ladybirds, frogs, hedgehogs ...)
WEEK 4: GARDENING CLUB: Jade Class
In gardening club today we worked on making the Reflection Area look neat and tidy. We dead headed the flowers and planted some bulbs, that will hopefully grow next Spring.
GREEN CLASS - Gardening Club
Today we have been planting pansies (as requested by the children last week) in the planters we cleaned out in Wk2. We also planted strawberry runners in a new trough. This is a great idea - you do not need to buy new plants!
PURPLE CLASS - Gardening Club
Today we weeded and cleaned out the KS1 raised bed. It now looks fantastic and is all ready for winter. We even added a layer of manure to improve the soil.
We also snipped off the runners from the strawberry plants. this mean we can grow new ones next year.
WOW - this hedgehog had a lucky escape from being trampled on! He was curled up in the leaves on our school field. Thank you to the Dinner Nanny who rescued him!
LOOK what we found hiding in the raised beds. Some of the sunflowers have also grown taller than Mrs Roberts!
GREEN CLASS - Gardening Club
Thank you Green class members for helping Mrs Roberts clean out and replant the bulbs in the planters at the entrance to our school. Good job!
PURPLE CLASS - Gardening Club
Todays group helped Mrs Roberts take all the dead flowers off the plants in our Reflection area. We call this 'dead heading'. We had to be very careful with the scissors and also make sure we completed the challenge Mrs Roberts gave us. The challenge was to make sure they counted three dead flowers before they put them in the bin. Great counting team!
JADE CLASS - Gardening Club
Today we worked in the fruit garden and harvested the plums. We picked some off the tree but also sorted them into those that we could eat (edible) and those that had gone rotten. W had so many that we took them back into school and gave a bowl to Jade class and a bowl to nursery.
NEW SCHOOL YEAR 2021 - 2022
Harvesting our produce - Week 6 (2021)
Broad beans harvested by Nursery children. Thank you
(Mrs Roberts is unfortunately isolating this week so cannot be in school).
The red and black currants will be ready in the next few weeks so Mrs Ramshaw and Mrs Roberts will harvest and make jam to bring in to school for the children in September.
Why not take part in the 'Big Butterfly Count'?
The Big Butterfly Count is a nationwide citizen science survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment. It was launched in 2010 and has rapidly become the world's biggest survey of butterflies.
The Big Butterfly Count 2021 runs from Friday 16 July to Sunday 8 August. Just ask Mum or Dad to download the app. It takes 15 minutes to complete and can be done as many times as you want.
Even if you see no butterflies the data you log is really important.
Over 111,500 citizen scientists took part in 2020, submitting 145,249 counts of butterflies and day-flying moths from across the UK.
SUMMER TERM: Week 5: Green Class weeding the vegetable beds. We found lots of new growth: courgettes, strawberries, black currants and red currants
SUMMER TERM: Week 4 Red Class: We have had no rain for five days so today we watered the raised beds and the butterfly garden. We also weeded in amongst the vegtables.
SUMMER TERM: Week 4 Green Class: We have had no rain for five days so today we watered the reflection area and the raised beds.
SUMMER TERM 2: WEEK 4: Purple and Yellow group weeded the Reflection Area and planted oxe-eye daisies and penstemon plants that we had grown.
Summer Term 2: Yellow Class take part in the Radio 2 Design a Bee Garden competition
SUMMER TERM 2: Week 3: Orange & Red Class Gardening Club: Last term red class planted sunflowers. Only a few of them grew so today they were transplanted into the nursery bed of wild flowers. We have given red class some more sunflower seeds to have another go, growing at home!
SUMMER TERM 2: Week 3: Green Class Gardening Club: Today we helped water all the raised beds and tubs around the school ground. We have had no rainfall all week.
SUMMER TERM 2: Yellow Class Week 3: Planting seeds: Spring onions and outdoor cress.
SUMMER 2: Week 3: Purple Class: Planting out baby leeks and looking after the vegetable and fruit beds. Our first harvest of radishes. Where do the weeds come from?
SUMMER 2: Week 2: Green Class: Today we filled the planters around school with summer bedding plants.
SUMMER 2: WEEK 2: Red Class: Today we continued working on the Butterfly Garden.
WOW! Gardening club have been doing a FABULOUS job. Look at all the fruit and vegetables we are growing in our school garden.
Wildflowers in the Nursery Flower bed
SUMMER 2: Week 2: Yellow Class: Staking out the sunflowers and weeding the Nursery wildflower bed.
Summer 2 Week 2 Purple Class: Potting up lupin seedlings and watering the 'Reflection Area',
Summer 2 Week 1 Green Class Gardening Club
Green class gardening club helped Mrs Roberts weed the KS1 bed today. We removed all the weeds competing with our peas and broad beans. We also had to cover up the radishes that had been uncovered by the birds. After all our hard work we also watered all the vegetable beds. We have not had any rain for ages!
Summer 2 Week 1 Yellow & Red Class Gardening Club
Yellow and Red class gardening club members helped Mrs Baker in the ‘Butterfly Garden’ today. It has become very over grown and some of the shrubs need cutting right back. They worked super hard and seemed to enjoy their work.
THANK YOU to a young man in Purple class who has donated a Yuka plant to his classroom. It is a stem that broke off from a larger plant. We planted it into a bigger container after carefully looking at the roots, stem and shoots. Hopefully it will grow as big as the plant it came from.
SUMMER 2 Gardening Club Purple Class
Week 1 Today we weeded the sweetcorn and courgette bed. The lawn mower had thrown grass cuttings all over the soil so we cleared away that and all the weeds competing with our vegetable plants. They did a great job and then helped water them. It's hard to believe that the sweetcorn will grow as high as Mrs Roberts!
SUMMER 2 Gardening Club Yellow Class
Week 1
Today we spent our session clearing and weeding the KS2 vegetable bed after the half term holiday. We talked about our own experiences of gardening - from planting sunflowers in nursery, broad beans in Purple class and also how we garden at home (sunflowers, strawberries, pumpkins ...)
The children also helped water a few beds due to the lack of rain recently.
Summer 1 Week 7
THANK YOU to both Red class and Jade class for your efforts in Gardening Club this term. You have been great! The Reflection Area looks fantastic and we have lots of fruits and vegetables starting to grow.
Good work
Mrs Roberts
Summer 1 Week 7: Yellow class Gardening Club
Summer 1 Week 7: Purple Class Gardening Club
Summer 1 Week 7
Purple Class
Today we weeded all the vegetable beds. We have had lots of rain which has made the weeds grow tall. We need to remove them so that are seedlings will have room to grow. We are growing peas, broad beans, radishes, lettuce, carrots, squash and sweetcorn.
We also planted some flowers – Cosmos and Calendula and Jenson brought us a tomato plant from his Grandma’s greenhouse. We put it in a bigger tub so that it has more room to grow. Thank you Jenson (and your Grandma too!)
Yellow Class
Today the boys did some ‘GORILLA’ gardening. They have planted sunflowers in a secret part of our school grounds (helped by Walter – the cat!)
See if you can spot them starting to grow.
NEW GROWTH - Look at what we are growing in the school garden:
Summer 1 Week 6 Yellow Class Gardening Group
Week 6 Gardening Club
Purple Class
Today we went on a 'secret' mission sowing seeds around the school grounds. Hopefully you should spot lots of sunflowers in the next few months.
Yellow Class
Today the boys, very carefully potted on some Ox eye daisy seedlings grown by Mrs Roberts. We looked carefully at the plant structure and discussed why we had to be SO careful when transplanting the seedlings. All the boys followed the instructions well and all the seedlings survived. Thank you.
Summer 1 Week 6 Purple Group Gardening Group
Summer 1 Week 5 Jade Gardening Group
Week 5 Gardening Club
Red Class
The boys and Mrs Baker have been doing a fabulous job replanting the 'Reflection Area'. we have lots of new types of plants that should hopefully fill the space and give the children a more varied range of plants to study throughout the year.
Jade Class
Today the boys planted out the sweetcorn and squash that they grew from seed. We know what they need to survive and linked our work to this terms topic in Science.
Summer 1 Week 5 Red Class Gardening Group
Summer 1 Week 5 Purple Class Gardening Club
Summer 1 Week 5 Yellow Class Gardening Club
Gardening Club Summer 1 Week 5
Purple Class
Today we renewed the pots of flowers that you see when you come into the main school yard. We emptied all the existing beds and hunted / dug out all the bulbs that were hiding in the soil. We then replanted the bulbs and some geraniums that last terms gardening club grew.
Hopefully they will make a lovely display in a few weeks time.
Yellow Class
Today the boys planted lettuce and carrot seeds in the Key Stage 2 raised bed. The boys watched Mrs Roberts explain and then did their own row independently. They then split into two groups. One planted some of the geraniums in the flower bed in the Early Years yard and the other planted some more radishes, kindly donated by Mrs Branwell.
Summer 1 Week 4 Gardening Club Red Class
The boys planted broad beans that had been grown for us by Mrs Branwell. Mrs Baker showed the boys how to carefully transplant the beans into the correct position in the raised beds. The boys watered them in and hopefully they will produce many beans.
SUMMER 1 Week 4 Gardening Club Jade Class
Today we moved the lavender plants and used them to line the path to the reflection area. The boys helped to dig the new holes and carefully dig up the plants. We found lots of worms, a sign of healthy soil.
We also planted some primulas that have kindly been donated to school.
Summer 1 Week 3 Gardening Club Red Class
Summer 1 Week 3 Gardening Club Jade Class
Our work this week has been on tidying up and replanting the 'Reflection Area'. The boys in Jade class planted some radish and broad bean seedlings today in the Key Stage 1 bed and the boys in Red class, plated some new shrubs behind the bench. We will take another photo when all our hard work is complete.
THANK YOU to The Morpeth Litter Group for all the hard work cleaning up our town. A member of Jade Class was interview by Look North (29.04.21)
Nursery Class finding about about God's Beautiful World and cleaning up the litter that makes it untidy!
Summer 1 Week 3 Gardening Club
Today we focused our efforts on the 'Reflections Area'. We have decided not to put the poppy stones back down and to recycle them in our butterfly garden (Which we are revamping this summer with the ECO COUNCIL).
Purple class helped moved the stones to a central area and then careful, using trowels dug up, any other stones they could locate, hiding in the butterfly garden.
They showed fantastic co-operation and quick thinking, using their own ideas to move the stones in a more efficient way. We learnt about why some materials work well, because they are waterproof and also about bulbs. We planted some grape hyacinths that had been taken out of a tub by nursery (recycling!).
Yellow Class learnt how to use the large forks, to turn the compacted soil. It was tricky and we had to remember our safety rules. These keep us and others safe. The boys helped clear leaves and prune the rest of the shrubs in the area. It was hard work and we didn't quite finish but we worked well as a team and had great conversations about: why we kept finding worms, planting bulbs and plants that may be harmful to people.
Summer 1 Week 3 Gardening Club Yellow Class
Summer 1 Week 3 Gardening Club Purple Class
EXCITING NEWS - We think we have birds nesting in our swift boxes. See if you can spot them.
Emerging new seedlings - sweetcorn and sunflowers
Summer 1 Week 2: Jade class - today we were finding the poppy stones hidden in the refection area border, ready to clean and replant. We also planted sweetcorn seeds.
Summer 1 Week 2 Red Class Gardening Club: Clearing the reflection area of leaves, pruning buddleia plants and weeding the border.
Indigo Class: Planting sunflower seeds in the nursery raised bad and the tubs outside their yard.
Summer 1 Week 1
Today the new members of club had a quick tour of the school garden. They found out about all the different plants and what each raised bed was growing.
Today’s jobs involved weeding one of the fruit beds and watering the wild flower bed, strawberries, peas, lettuce and carrots.
PURPLE CLASS
The children found lots of interesting mini-beasts, discussed the blossom and what it might turn into and also their own ‘gardens’ at home.
YELLOW CLASS
The children helped finish off the weeding of the fruit bed, they gave the lavender a ‘haircut’ and then replanted them. They also planted some flowers called ‘cosmos’. The boys also helped water other parts of the garden that were dry. The boys told me about their gardens and were asked to name a plant that grew there. They talked about jasmine, sunflowers, strawberries, bamboo and apple trees.
Thank you for your help
Purple Class Group
Gardening Club: Purple Class members
Yellow Class group
Gardening Club: Yellow Class members
Gardening Club: JADE Class - Today we weeded the fruit bed in the school garden. We found a caterpillar hiding on the soil. RED Class: The boys had a choice of tidying the fallen leaves or repotting sunflowers and pumpkins.
Summer Week 1: INDIGO CLASS Over the past few weeks children in the nursery have been preparing the nursery bed in our school garden for sowing wild flower seeds. Look at all their wonderful work.
THANK YOU to all last terms 'Gardeners' for all your help last term.
This week in gardening club we caught up with the seeds we'd planted before the Easter break. Our sweetcorn, pumpkin and squash are growing well. Our sunflowers have grown a little too tall due to too much heat but we should be able to recue them by keeping them cooler now we are back at school. unfortunately our cauliflowers died due to lack of water (they were thoroughly watered before we broke up).
Today Purple class cut back the lavender and started to dig over the Key Stage 1 bed. They planted peas.
Yellow class repotted some sunflower seeds and planted carrots and Lollo Rosso lettuce seeds.
Great co-operation, kindness and team work shown by all. Thank you
Summer 1 Week 1: the last week of gardening for our Spring term group.
Monday 22.03.21: Planting the potatoes we have been 'chitting; in Purple class. Which will grow the best? In a plastic bag or a metal pot?
Week 4 Gardening Club: Planting seeds and a sweet potato! Apparently you can grow a houseplant from a sweet potato. Just sit its bottom in water and watch it grow!
The children were all involved in assessments at gardening time this week so Mrs Roberts prepared some pots ready for sowing seeds and the children came and helped during their dinner hour (THANK YOU)
Purple class planted a huge tray of sweetcorn.
Yellow class planted: sunflowers, pumpkins, squash and cauliflowers.
Hopefully after Easter we will see some new growth!
HABITATS: Purple class clearing the pond area of leaves after our class lesson about the pond and the creatures and plants who live in it.
Week 3 Gardening Group
Today we worked on the school garden. Our first job was to plant some geraniums to cheer up the planters around the school. The children were shown how to do this and then encouraged to do this on their own.
Our next job was to clear the strawberry bed, started on the herb bed and pruned the currant bushes. The children found snails, millipedes, worms, woodlice ... and worked well taking the dead plant material to the compost bin and back.
WELL BEING & NO SCREEN DAY (Friday 26th February 2021) Today we started to clear the Reflection Area of dead leaves and planted some trees / saplings into the patch of grass next to the rear yard exit.
YELLOW CLASS helped to plant a hedge of mixed evergreen and deciduous saplings at the side of the 'Quiet Area'. Here is a 'BEFORE' photo.
Here is what we did - and an AFTER photo.
Well Being and Screen Free Friday (Friday 26th February 2021)
We looked before and after, Mrs Baker had cleaned out the school pond. We talked about why the pond needed cleaning, what was found living in the pond, the design of the pond and why it was different levels and why we were leaving the leaves on the side of the pond over the weekend.
SPRING 2 (Tuesday 23rd February 2021)
Today we finally completed pruning and clearing the grass from the two hedges just around the early years yard. I must say that the children have done a brilliant job and even though it has taken us three sessions to complete we have had no moans.
Super co-operation and teamwork shown by all. Fantastic manners and consideration for others (including Mrs Roberts)
Look at all their hard work. THANK YOU
Look what we grew! Rocket and broad beans
Week 4 (Tuesday 9th February 2021)
The weather conditions were still poor today.
Ground frozen and covered in snow. Forecast: Snow showers
Both classes set up experiments testing the best material for growing seeds in: cotton wool, paper towel and kitchen towel.
They also created a bean stalk viewer so they could see the growth of roots and stems through the side of the container.
Purple class planted rocket seeds and broad beans.
Yellow class planted basil, corriander, rocket and broad beans.
Week 3 Gardening Club
This week we continued the work from Week 1. Purple and Yellow class worked very hard, pruning all the tall hedging plants, cutting up the sticks and clearing them away. We talked as we worked about:
*how clearing the grass and leaves would mean that the shrubs would have more light and therefore grow stronger.
*how thinning out the stems and making them shorter would mean that they would grow thicker and create a great habitat for birds, small mammals and various mini beasts.
Super conversation and team work. Everyone working together. The group could see the result of their hard work and should be very proud. NEXT WEEK we will start on the Reflection Area.
Week 2 Gardening Club 2021 (19th January 2021)
RAIN RAIN GO AWAY!
Today we went out to look at the school raised beds even though it was pouring with rain. The idea was so the children could understand that todays job involved 'planning'.
We looked at what was already there:
Bed 1 - Nursery / Flowers
Bed 2 - Key Stage 1 (Jade / Purple / Green Class)
Bed 3 - Key Stage 2 (Yellow / Orange / Red Class)
Bed 4 - Fruit Trees
Bed 5 - Herbs
Bed 6 - Fruit bushes and strawberries
Purple class were asked to think of something they wanted to grow in the KS1 bed that was not already there. We discussed whether it was suitable - did it need to grow in a greenhouse (Grapes! Something that we may do in the future)?
The children decided on: sweetcorn / blueberries and broccoli.
Yellow class decided on: peas & cauliflower / sweetcorn * carrots for the KS2 bed.
Some great ideas for us to think about for the up and coming growing season.
THANK YOU for your help.
GARDENING CLUB 2021
Week 1 (12th January 2021)
Today was our first session working together. Our task was to start pruning and clearing underneath the hedge, we planted two years ago (this runs adjacent to the EYFS yard).
We started the session with a discussion about safety – clothing and tools.
Great listening and sensible suggestions made.
Whilst working we discussed what/ why we were doing this job (to promote growth at the base of the hedge, reduce its height and therefore encourage more wildlife to use it).
FANTASTIC work - we managed to clear half of the hedge.
PURPLE CLASS
YELLOW CLASS
NURSERY - The children in morning nursery helped Mrs Roberts pick the delicious eating apples off our miniature fruit trees. We hade a visit from a robin. Can you spot him? We even ate the apples for our snack!
We have covered the beds to keep the soil warm and prevent weeds growing over the winter period. We will be working in small groups to cut back the herb and fruit beds in the next few weeks.
The end of the growing season 2020 - empty beds!
Autumn 2: Purple class have been learning about how to record the weather. We made a rain gauge. We also noticed that we have wind vanes out in the playground. These measure wind direction.
Autumn 2 (2019) Out of tiny acorns mighty oak trees grow! In the nursery today we collected acorns from an oak tree on the school playground. We took them back to nursery and all planted an acorn of our own. We gave them soil, water and will keep them warm. We hope they will start to grow soon!
We have had two beech trees donated by a local firm to the school as part of the scheme 'Gift a Tree'. At the moment we have bedded them into a temporary home but are thinking of where they might fit in our school garden. THANK YOU
New school year - 2019 to 2020. Today the nursery children went on an AUTUMN walk around our school grounds. We found lots of exciting natural materials. We found conkers, acorns, beech nut shells, sycamore seeds ...
End of term - today we picked all our broad beans, strawberries and red currants. Thank you Purple Class for all your help!
Produce from our 'Fruit' bed - black currants and strawberries.
July 2019 Today we started to think about cleaning out our school pond. Unfortunately it is covered in duck weed and algae so we made and added barley straw 'sausages' to the water. This acts as a natural algaecide and kills the algae.
Week 5 - THANK YOU to Mrs Taylor for putting up our new OUTSIDE LEARNING posters in the 'Quiet Area'. They look great. Have a look next time your passing.
They are based on the five senses.
Week 4 - Today we planted some beetroot and leeks during our Outside Learning lesson. We also took part in the Woodland Windows and Summer Spotter sheet activities.
THANK YOU for all your batteries. We have had one barrel collected and the next is over half full.
Introducing the new posters and information for the Quiet Area of our playground. Mrs Roberts showed us the new resources that will be displayed in the Quiet Area. We talked about why they had been chosen, where they would be displayed and how we should look after them.
The display boards are based around the five senses: SIGHT / HEARING / TOUCH / TASTE / SMELL
Morpeth Swifts celebrate their collaboration with Morpeth All Saints.
THANK YOU to Mr Sorrie. Our Swift boxes have arrived!
Our school vegetable beds are starting to produce ??? KS1 are growing broad beans and have also planted a 'green manure' so that we can feed the soil for next year. The fruit bed plants are going to give us a bumper crop of black currants and strawberries. All we need now is lots of sunshine to ripen the fruit!
24.05.19: Mr Sorrie came to school to tell us all about SWIFTs. We learnt lots of information. In the half term holidays Mr Sorrie will be fixing them to one of our school walls. Can you spot them?
May 2019 - Setting up Fungus Lab. In purple class we were given a kit to grow our own Fungus. Today we set up the mycelium and stored it in a dark, warm place for the next four weeks. We are hoping to grow our own mushrooms.
WIINERS of the Morpeth Market Competition. We had to design a postcard celebrating and welcoming people to visit Morpeth Market. Well done.
We have been given four 'swift' bird boxes to hang in our school grounds. We have painted them four different colours and painted two of them black, inside. We will hopefully be finding out if the colours make a difference - will the birds nest in a particular box? W e can't wait to find out. Thank you to Mr G. Sorrie for the kind donation. We will be having a school assembly on Friday 24th May to find out more. Watch this space!
We are collecting old baterries as part of a recycling challenge. All the children have taken home a small cardboard box to fill at home. Please bring them into school at the end of May so we can return them in our large battery!
Today in KS1 we went on MINI BEAST hunts in three different habitats around our school. Look what we found:
We completed the RSPB bird Watch today. Before we started we made our own bird hides.
KS1 took part in the BBC Live lesson today from Winter Watch. We learnt about: Living things and their habitats /Seasonal changes and adaptations and Ecosystems
INDIGO class have been learning the name of different birds and making their own bird feeders.
KS1 are taking part in the BIG SCHOOLS BIRD WATCH at the end of January. We started to learn how to identify birds and how WE need to behave to watch them!
Nursery used the story STICKMAN as a stimulus for creating their own stick pictures. Can you guess what they have made?
Red Class - The children used natural materials from the outdoor areas to make their own skeletons.
Lunch time play - The boys created their own miniature house. They showed lots of skills especially of co-operation when others wanted to join them. Well done
Nursery afternoon children helping Mrs Roberts weed the vegetable beds.
October 2018 - Identifying trees using their leaves. Purple class had to find three different leaves: an oak, a horse chestnut and a beech leaf.
The Nursery children cleared all the vegetable beds. THANK YOU for all your hard work. Look at what they found?
Winners of the 'LOST WORDS' Competition. Well done.
This term PURPLE CLASS had to make the OUTSIDE LEARNING display board in the hall. We created our own 'NATURAL' ABC...
The Nursery Outdoor Learning Display Wall
Listening Walk - Today in Outdoor Learning the nursery used their ears to: STOP and LISTEN. We heard lots of interesting sounds and found lots of autumn objects around our school grounds.
KS1 OUTDOOR LEARNING COMPETITION - Your children will have brought home one of the letters below (see copy below). The deadline is: Friday 28th September 2018
What have we grown up this year?
Fresh strawberries from the school fruit and vegetable beds. Enjoyed by all the MORNING nursery children who have been looking after the school garden this term.
Taking cuttings from our mint plants to make plants to sell at the summer fayre. We also continued to work on weeding the school vegetable beds.
Purple Class planting, weeding and moving top soil. Preparing the KS1 bed.
OUR VEGETABLE BEDS at the start of the growing season. Now is the time for us to start planting out fruit and vegetables. Mrs Cameron and the nursery children have been hard at work clearing all the beds of weeds. THANK YOU for the kind donations of plants and seeds. Watch what will happen in the next few weeks. I hope we have green fingers!
CLEAN AIR PACKS - Today we have set up two clean air monitoring tubes in the school grounds. CAn you spot them? Over the next two weeks they will register the quality of the air around our school. The data will be sent off and analysed and then returned to us. What will it show?
MORNING Children preparing the nursery vegetable plot - planting carrots, lettuce, beans, sunflowers ...
AFTERNOON nursery children
Preparing the vegetable beds ready for spring planting
Outdoor Learning - Today we took part in a 'Rainbow Treasure Hunt'. The children had to find objects that match the colour on their rainbow strip.
Northumberland Hedgehog Rescue say 'THANK YOU'
After a visit from the Northumberland Hedgehog Rescue Trust we decided to raise money for the charity as a thank you. The children collected copper coins and we used them to make pictures of different British Wildlife. Well done & a great big THANK YOU
Thursday 1st February 2018 - Today we took undertook a 10 minute bird watch. We saw wag tails, crows, wood pigeons, seagulls ... The children were very excited. We camouflaged ourselves under the fort.
You can take part in the RSPB Garden Bird Watch at home. All children in Key Stage 1 have come home with a form explaining what to do. GET BIRD WATCHING!
Getting ready for the RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch - Jan 2018. Today we have been making cheerio bird feeders ready to hang out for the birds when we do our bird survey. This will be on Thursday 1st February.
Thursday 7th December 2017 - Today both Jade and Green class planted some more saplings. Helping in the creation of a hedge for our new fire pit area in our school grounds. THANK YOU for your help
A VISIT TO THE LOCAL WOODS The children in KS1 walked to Scots Gill Wood. We completed a circular walk along the river. The children used all their senses to observe the woods on a beautiful autumn day.
Staff and children from our school collecting the award for our 'Highly Commended' project at Alnwick Gardens - July 2017
CONGRATULATIONS to Morpeth All Saints for being awarded a Highly Commended in the Love Northumberland Awards 2017. We have won a bench that we will be placed under the Buddy / Friendship Stop and £50. We will spend this on resources for the outside area.
Caring for the pond. We have added barley straw to the water to help clear the algae. July 2017
July 2017 - Collecting blackcurrant and strawberries from our fruit bed
The WINNERS of our potato competition - GREEN CLASS 2017
RESULTS of 'Grow Your Own Potatoes' Competition 2017
KS1 find out the results of the Grow Your Own Potato Competition 2017
ORANGE CLASS had a Den Building morning
PURPLE CLASS ( Year 1 and 2) We took part in four activities: Mini beasts on the Move / Woodland Windows / A Scavenger Hunt / Tree Giants
Morpeth All Saints Updates
Welcome
As Headteacher of Morpeth All Saints Church of England First School, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to our vibrant, caring and happy school. At Morpeth All Saints we strive to enable all children within our care to achieve their very best, fully utilising their God given gifts and talents.
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Morpeth All Saints Church of England Aided First School Pinewood Drive, Lancaster Park, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 3RD UKT: 01670 512803 E: admin@mafs.cheviotlt.co.uk Read More contact details
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- Attendance Winners 2022 / 2023 26th May 2023
- The benefits of registering for Free School Meals 30th January 2023
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