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The Horstead Centre – Outdoor Learning and Charcoal Making

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Challenges at Home:

Activity 1: Creating a Fantasy Forest Creature

  •  Could you create another type of creature who lives in the forest?
  •  Could you label the features of your creature e.g. curly horns, a long beard?
  • You might want to invent a name for your creature: this could be its type e.g. centaur or its actual name e.g. Desador.

Activity 2: The Book of Crimes

  • Gather the resources needed for this activity (slides 20-25)
  • Make your paper look ancient– adults will need to help with this!
  • Tear small pieces from the sides of the paper to make it look even older. Use your fingernail to make small tears or holes in other parts of the paper.
  • Using your stained paper create and write the names of the mountain creatures, the crime they committed and the length of time they were sent into exile.
  • When back in school make The Book of Crimes out of everyone’s pages.

Activity 3: A Magical Tree

  • Have a think about some of the trees that you have seen. Could they be magical?
  • Could you try to draw a magical tree?
  • Think about the features the tree has and what makes it different from the other magical trees in the story.
  • Around the tree make a note of the magical powers this tree possesses.
  • Only the older and wiser creatures know where these trees are, who in the forest knows about your particular tree?

Activity 4: The Forest Warden’s Job

  •  Imagine you’re a forest warden.
  • What kind of jobs might you be doing from day to day?
  • You could make a list, so you don’t forget all the jobs that as a forest warden you need to do.
  • When your list is finished you can get up and start to move about the room. Then move to other rooms in your house, acting out the various jobs you have listed.
  • You might decide to hold an imaginary net and start fishing the rubbish out of an imaginary river.
  • If it’s a dry day, pop on your coat and wellies and continue your pretend woodland conservation outside. If there are lots to still do take your adult with you!

Challenges at School:

Episode 1: Strange Creatures

Episode 2: The Mountain

  • Look carefully at the image of the mountain on slide 14.
  • What features do you notice?
  • How is it different is the mountain landscape from the pictures of the forest in Episode 1?
  • What dangers do you think might lie on the mountain?
  • Using a spider diagram use as many words as you can to describe what you see and feel about the mountain in Episode 2.

Episode Three: The Magical Tree

Episode Four: The Forest Wardens

Broads

An Introduction To The Broads – Landscape Character Assessment

The Broads Authority – Water of Life

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Norfolk Wildlife Trust – Bretts Wood

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Forest School in Norfolk

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Challenge at Home:

  • Find a woodland near you, using the Woodland Trusts website.
  • Go out to explore a local woodland – have a wander, see what natural treasures you can find, build some dens from sticks, balance on logs and climb trees. 
  • Do some of the activities from the ‘Introduction to Forest School Course’ – sessions 2 and 4 in particular have a variety of outdoor activities that could be done together as a family.

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Anglian Water

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The Conscious Consumers

https://discoverytrust.co.uk/project-conscious-consumers/

The Conscious Consumers project enables young people to explore topical issues that span the boundaries of agriculture, food and society. Focussing on three topics (plant-based diets, food miles and personalised nutrition) use the resources to consider what it means to be a conscious consumer and think about how the choices we make everyday impact on the environment and our wellbeing.


Who is it for?
This project is open to independent learners and schools and we invite young people aged 13 – 19 and teachers to download the PowerPoint presentations and activity documents for free. While the resources were made with year 9 PSHE students in mind, we feel the project is of general interest to young people and in a school setting, would make a valuable addition to several areas of the curriculum.

The Conscious Consumers project was only made possible with funding from the Chadacre Agricultural Trust and by working in partnership with some of our supporters. We joined forces with the Science, Art and Writing (SAW) Trust,the Youth STEMM Award (YSA) and Linking Environment And Farming (LEAF) Education. We are very grateful to all involved!

Amazing Orchards

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Challenge at Home:

  • Find an orchard near you and check out their recipes.
  • Try this baked apple recipe
  • Lots of apple based recipes here. 
  • Try printing with apples
  • Can you peel an apple in one piece? Why not have a family challenge to see who can create the longest piece of apple peel from a single apple, for the adults it has to be one piece for the children it can be several pieces combined.
  • Have a go at apple bobbing but do take care and supervise young children carefully.
  • Try tasting different types of apple. 

Challenge at School:

  •  If you can’t find an accessible orchard, many of the ideas could also be completed in a woodland area. Most of these KS2 activities can be adapted to match KS1 curriculum objectives.
  • Practical activities are linked to Science, English, Maths, History, Geography, Art and Design and Design Technology. 
  • Also take a look at Countryside Classroom and School Gardening.
  • Apples and Orchards. The Learning pages on this partner organisation ‘The apples and orchards project’ has more lesson plans and details of how you can order fruit trees for you school)  
  • Find details of free orchard and hedgerow packs to plant in school. Register now for the Winter 2021/ Spring 2022 season.

Our School: Our World – Bishop Graham Usher

The Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, has accepted the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury to lead the Church of England’s Environment Programme with a charge to lead bold, deliberate, collaborative action across the Church to tackle the grave existential crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
w: dofn.org/eco-schools

About the Project

How can we help to care for the planet?

This updated resource Our School: Our World by the Diocese of Norwich Education team outlines practical ideas from Christian and other perspectives to develop stewardship of God’s world in schools.

Our School: Our World Booklet