Wilder School - Somerleyton Primary School

This was our first session at Somerleyton Primary and we worked with the Year 3, 4 and Year 5 chidlren.  We started off by carrying out an audit of the school grounds and the existing habitats. We measured the size of the playground and the learning area and counted the number of trees. We then explored the allotment and recorded how many minibeast homes, log piles, nest boxes and pollinator pitstops were already there as well as measuring the area of the flowerbeds. 

In the afternoon, we did a bug hunt  in the allotment and then created a natural collage from collected materials. We also thought about how to fundraise the project and came up with lots of fantastic ideas. 

During our second visit to Somerleyton we started off the day by working with the reception children. We hunted for bugs in the learning garden and then had a think about how we can encourage more bugs into the area. We then created journey sticks from the natural materials we could find. 

The rest of the day was spent with the year 5 and 6s, where we constructed a new bug hotel for the allotment, thinking carefully about the materials to add to it and what invertebrates may take up residence. We also built a hedgehog house and weeded the vegetable beds so our produce can thrive.