Preston Lodge HS - SfL goes Global
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In French recently our theme of the Garden for Life has found its way conveniently into our lessons with Ms Russell. We have been finding out all about “des legumes”.
Please see the attached link for details of the new vocabulary we have been learning.
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As part of our gardening programme we will be looking at what happens to living things during the winter time. Last year we successfully fed the birds in the school gardens with home made fat balls, milk carton feeders and juice bottle water troughs.
We are repeating this exercise this year - we still want to [...]
This week in ELP Gardening we celebrated the season by going on a lovely walk looking for conkers - so that we can have a fantastic conker competition with Mr Cruickshank very soon!
We also spent time with Mrs Binnie cleaning out and carving pumpkin lanterns to ensure our room is the best dressed room in [...]
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This week we will be looking at whether all plants need to grow from seeds, if they all need soil to grow in - and if they have to be planted in something conventional?
Using root vegetables that are common and popular to eat in the autumn, we will be investigating some of the questions above
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common-garden-bugs-that-we-might-find
Today in ELP Gardening we went on a Big Hunt!
Whilst looking for different kinds of trees (and leaves) last week in ELP Gardening, we discovered that many of the deciduous tree leaves were the home to a number of creepy crawlie critters… This discovery prompted an afternoon of more in-depth bug hunting and our pupils [...]
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This week in ELP Gardening we are looking at the coming of autumn and its effect on the garden, especially the trees.
Click on the autumn leaves link above to find out what we are getting up to!
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Mrs Fitzpatrick has a lovely apple tree. It grows in her garden and it produces lots of lovely cooking apples. She very kindly asked if we would like some of these apples for our Gardening and Social Studies lessons and - as we are looking at growing our own food in both classes – we didn’t [...]
making-a-prickly-garden
This week in gardening we will be making a different kind of garden…a prickly garden!
The attached work sheet and instructions lead us through the lessons on creating a cactus garden in the classroom - giving us an indoor green space of an unusual nature! ELP gardening is not simply going to be about weeding and [...]
where-does-our-food-come-from
In this series of lessons we will be looking at where our food comes from. The children were introduced to the idea that food stuffs come from different places (and often more than one place) on the planet using the attached worksheet.
Examples of the food stuffs were brought in for them to look at, smell [...]
This year in Social Studies the pupils will be undertaking a project called The Garden for Life. In this project we will be covering a wide range of issues and will be tying them back in to the work we did last year in Science (The life of plants) and our Gardening lessons this year.
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