The weather was more than kind for the visit of all 86 children of St Lawrence School, Stone Street
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| A perfect day on the plat |
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| Not a cloud in the sky |
The older children walked the mile or more through footpaths and up the steep hill of
Mote Road....
....arriving in great time for the visit, whilst the younger ones were brought by parents' cars.
A programme of eight different activities had been planned at different points around the plat, with volunteers guiding each one.
With the children sorted into eight groups they set off to tackle as many as they could in rotation.
If the rotation was sometimes a bit confusing and out of
sinc, no-one got too fussed and in the end each group
covered at least three of the activities before it was
time to stop for packed lunches on the open ground.
The volunteers too were glad to take a break.
Then it was time for more discoveries and creative work getting around another three or four of the stopping points. What follows is a photo gallery of the different activities on offer:-
Learning about bumblebees and the wild flowers that
they like
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A bowlful of seeds to sow
Building a stack for wildlife
Learning about cobnuts
More activities and more photos in Part 2 (next post!)
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