Upper Key Stage 2

Collect, classify and discover how pond animals are adapted to their habitat.

Collect and classify woodland invertebrates, investigating how they are adapted to their habitat.

Make and light your own camp fire to do some simple cooking.

Build a shelter in the forest. Would it keep you dry if you had to stay in it overnight?

Full day. Discuss the importance of natural resources in relation to climate change, biodiversity and sustainability. Includes our 'Trees and Carbon' activity and our Climate and Sustainability Map Challenge.

Can you use a map and compass to navigate your way around the trail in our grounds?

Hands on session to handle and investigate how our animals are adapted to their habitats.

Investigate which insulating materials are best for keeping our homes warm.

Take your net through a forest meadow to discover how the animals living there are adapted to this habitat.

Why is compost important for the planet, how is it formed and what makes it?

A navigation challenge in the forest, use your map and compass skills to find your way with your group.

Discover the different stages of plant life cycles whilst exploring Epping forest.

Discover the life cycles of animals living in the pond.

Test your team work with a series of fun, short challenges.

Can we plant our way out of the climate emergency?

Climate change is affecting rainfall patterns, what has that got to do with you?

Investigate and measure the local Hillwood stream, finding out about the processes of erosion and deposition.

Inspire greater physical, mental and emotional wellbeing, with a toolbox of approaches that pupils can apply in their everyday lives. (Supports PSHE.)