This year’s RSPB Big School’s Birdwatch was carried during January and February. We have taken part in this national survey for the last eight years. Each class completed one survey with all children having the opportunity to take part. The surveys lasted … Continue reading
The moth trap was set up by the bird hide on the evenings of 10th and 11th June and emptied the following mornings by Year 2 and Year 3. The children photographed and recorded the moths caught and uploaded photos … Continue reading
General Election Day is also the last day to vote for Britain’s national bird. Choose your favourite from a shortlist of 10 birds and cast your vote on the Vote National Bird Website by midnight on 7th May. Ask your parents … Continue reading
The school’s bird boxes have been cleaned out ready for this year’s nesting season – thank you Mr Marriot for helping once again! All the boxes showed signs of having been used; six had nests in them and the rest … Continue reading
This year, the RSPB has given schools from 5th January to 13th February to do their Big Schools’ Birdwatch surveys. We have taken part in this national survey for the last seven years. This year, each class completed one survey … Continue reading
Once again we had a very successful Big Schools’ Birdwatch and managed to submit four sets of results, with all the children having the opportunity to contribute. We saw a grand total of 23 different bird species and 275 birds … Continue reading
I would like to say a massive thank you to Mr Marriot for helping me clean out all the school’s bird boxes today. It managed to say mostly dry all morning but our fingers were numb with cold by the … Continue reading
Once again we had a very successful Big Schools’ Birdwatch and managed to submit four sets of results, with most children having the opportunity to contribute. We saw a grand total of 28 different species of bird, surpassing even last … Continue reading
We will be taking part in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch again this year 21st January – 1st February. If you wish to send in binoculars for your child to use, you may hand them into the School office (please make … Continue reading
We had a hugely successful Big Schools’ Birdwatch this year, with all children taking part over three days. We are very lucky to have such fantastic school grounds with a variety of habitats, including mature trees such as Alder, Sycamore, Silver Birch … Continue reading
This year we took part in the Big Schools’ Birdwatch on 1st February. Many enthusiastic children helped me complete our list for the survey which involved recording the maximum number of each species seen at any one time during one hour. … Continue reading
