We came here to look a little bit more in depth at the way trees work, and try to establish how
you can work out the age of a tree just by looking at it and measuring it. It covers
in a practical way what we do in the classroom. I also think that for 21st century children, it
is very important to know more about nature, more about your environment. You can't ask
children to recycle and be all green if they don't understand why we need to look after our planet.
I want each team to make up a little mini-play or a presentation you're
going to make to the rest of the class showing what you've learned about that particular period of time.
May the hunting begin!
The best thing about being in the Forest is that
you get to enjoy yourself and you can see lots of different habitats.
It's fun because you get to, like, clean it up and you get to do work with your friends, do teamwork.
For our children, it's a really special day, it brings their learning very much to life,
and it gets them really hands-on with the things that we're talking about so that they
can really relate to it - and it gets them very excited and very motivated. And by the
time they're back in the classroom and really thinking and looking carefully at what they've
been outside to see, they really, really want to learn and to find out. It's really, really
fun to be learning with them like this.
Miss! Look in our pot!
We put our nets in the water and it's, like, we had to slide it all the way around and it was really cool!
It was fun! Whatever we did was fun!
We... are very lucky that our school is near Epping Forest.
The children get to learn about the science and about the history of the local area, and
the geography of the local area - so it links to all areas of the curriculum.
We provide educational, hands-on learning for young people in a safe, enjoyable environment.
(You can site your results next to each measurement...)
Today, they were doing their fifth module for the Discovering Epping Forest project.
They were building on what they've done before
and looking at how people impact on the Forest today, and some of the negative and positive impacts that visitors bring.
BAT!
I think it's fantastic to be able to engage with environments
close to them, and come to the Forest and learn hands-on with discovery learning.
So that shows that if you were a bat and you were next to a source of noise pollution,
okay, that noise pollution would affect your ability to find food and things like that.
Right guys! You've done really well!
I definitely recommend this trip to the teachers. It's brilliant, and it's a really nice experience for the children to come out and experience
it close at hand and be made aware of things that they've probably never really taken notice of before
in their everyday lives - especially some of the children, who never really come
out to the Forest and don't benefit from what's right on their doorstep.
We came for the first time in September and we've been going all the way through the school year until now.
This is our final one, I'm sad to say!
I'd recommend it to any school, to come here,
because they'll learn so much about the Forest, about nature and about how to look after it.
And preserve it.
When I grow up, I'll bring my children here and have fun and have picnics
and I'll never forget Epping Forest.