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Exploring Nature: How we can protect and care for the land. Walliston Primary School,Claire Davenhall and Nathan Bushby Year 5

by Claire,

Session 8

DATE 26.6.25

Warm Up (one photo)

After a quick demo and constructing our boxes for our book nooks, we headed outside for a scavenger hunt to find things to make our habitats with. We limited the time to 10 minutes to look for things for our animals to hide under, leaves, rocks, sticks, etc…

Main Activity (one photo)

Creating habitats. We challenged the students to work out a creative way to use their boxes to showcase their animal in its habitat best, linking to the poster they made last week and the research they did on their field books. It took 1 student to ask for a circle to be cut out in the middle of the box, for most of the class to switch on “that's a good idea”, and suddenly everyone had little portholes of light flooding in their boxes; they looked better than I had expected. We had a few albino snakes (they had missed the painting session), which are very rare reptiles!

Reflection with the students (one photo)

We spent the last 10 minutes with a gallery walk; they had to think of something they liked about another person's box and explain how they had used the creative habit to get the box finished. It was interesting to hear their explanations and admiration for each other's work and learning journey. They was only a few stunts that found it difficult to pick one of the 5 habits and just claimed they were creative! Which was fine, the teacher and the creative were able to help them more specifically.

Paste your photo here. After the session: Planning with the Teacher

(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

That was the final session. They will be displayed in the library, along with their books. No EA today, which we had hoped for as it was full on getting boxes custom made.

Working with students

(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

They all seemed very engaged in the activities and took pride over their work. I’m not 100% sure where the whole class is up to and if they managed to finish everything, we can take a better look once they are on display.

Ideas moving forward

(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

We have a planning meeting on Friday to discuss next term's project… something to do with Asia, dragons and the Indian Ocean

Resources

(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Bring ideas