Hawkesbury School Visit June 2012
Visit to Inglestone Common by Yr 5/6 Class from Hawkesbury CE VC Primary School
The aim of this activity was to link the children from Hawkesbury Primary to the historic working landscape around them. The work that the children produced as part of the visit can be used in a display at the Hawkesbury flower show. The school has been given copies of the resources needed to run the activity themselves in following years.
The children were taken on a guided walk from their primary school through different habitats to Inglestone Common and into Lower Woods. Different types of countryside management were explained to them along the walk and the impact of this management on different habitats was talked about. By walking to the common from the school the children were able to get a sense of how connected the landscape is and think about how animals might move from place to place themselves.
Once on the common the children took part in the following activities;
Nature pallets - The children created collages from fragments of leaves and petals that they found as they walked though the common, encouraging them to look at the detail and diversity of plants on the common.
Sounds of the common - The children learnt to identify common birds that they would hear singing on the common.
Commoners game - In this game children worked in groups to act out small plays which described different words associated with commons and commoners rights.
Grassland plants - The children drew pictures of the different flowering plants on the common and used cameras to take pictures of the plants and features of the common like anthills and scrub.
During the day children had the chance to talk to two people who make a living from the common. Neil Lodge from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust talked to the children about the management of Lower Woods and how this management is good for wildlife. He also talked about commoners rights in the woodland and how the common and the woods were linked. Christine Chancellor, who runs her cows on the common talked to the children about her herd and how the commoners cooperate to manage their cows together. She also talked about what it is like to live on the common as she has done for a number of years.
Meeting people who manage the landscape now in a similar way to how it has been managed for hundreds of years was a valuable experience for the children as it created a living link with the past and helped to demonstrate that the landscape can be used to produce goods in a sustainable way.
An education learning pack can also be seen by clicking on the following link
The aim of this activity was to link the children from Hawkesbury Primary to the historic working landscape around them. The work that the children produced as part of the visit can be used in a display at the Hawkesbury flower show. The school has been given copies of the resources needed to run the activity themselves in following years.
The children were taken on a guided walk from their primary school through different habitats to Inglestone Common and into Lower Woods. Different types of countryside management were explained to them along the walk and the impact of this management on different habitats was talked about. By walking to the common from the school the children were able to get a sense of how connected the landscape is and think about how animals might move from place to place themselves.
Once on the common the children took part in the following activities;
Nature pallets - The children created collages from fragments of leaves and petals that they found as they walked though the common, encouraging them to look at the detail and diversity of plants on the common.
Sounds of the common - The children learnt to identify common birds that they would hear singing on the common.
Commoners game - In this game children worked in groups to act out small plays which described different words associated with commons and commoners rights.
Grassland plants - The children drew pictures of the different flowering plants on the common and used cameras to take pictures of the plants and features of the common like anthills and scrub.
During the day children had the chance to talk to two people who make a living from the common. Neil Lodge from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust talked to the children about the management of Lower Woods and how this management is good for wildlife. He also talked about commoners rights in the woodland and how the common and the woods were linked. Christine Chancellor, who runs her cows on the common talked to the children about her herd and how the commoners cooperate to manage their cows together. She also talked about what it is like to live on the common as she has done for a number of years.
Meeting people who manage the landscape now in a similar way to how it has been managed for hundreds of years was a valuable experience for the children as it created a living link with the past and helped to demonstrate that the landscape can be used to produce goods in a sustainable way.
An education learning pack can also be seen by clicking on the following link
|
|
|