20/05/2026
Today we’ve had a wonderful Outdoor Learning Day focused on wildflowers! 🌸🌿
The children began with a walk around our local environment to spot bluebells and other beautiful wildflowers growing around us. They showed great observation skills and curiosity as they explored nature around school. Between the showers, we spent time drawing and painting the flowers we had found, carefully looking at their colours, shapes and details.
We also enjoyed some outdoor writing, creating our own bluebell poems while sitting amongst the bluebells, inspired by The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris. The children used rich vocabulary and their senses to capture the beauty of the woodland around them.
Using plant identification charts, the children worked hard to identify and name some of the wildflowers growing within our school environment. Later, they enjoyed having a go at the Japanese dyeing technique Hapa Zome, using flowers and leaves to create patterns on calico fabric.
Some of our Explorers and Discoverers then took their learning even further by transforming their decorated calico into textile projects such as bookmarks, purses and pillowcases, using a range of sewing techniques they have learned throughout the year.
