Outdoor Literacy and Numeracy at Shakespeare School

We were with Shakespeare primary school bright and early for a sunny spring morning of numeracy and literacy with year 1 and year 5.

With their welly boots already on, the year 5s were keen to walk to Woodland Woods to learn how to think about words and numbers outside the classroom.  We learnt how to work out the age of a tree in the numeracy session: it turns out the oldest tree (a beech tree who we called ‘Grandpa Tree’!) was a staggering 128 years old! We then used our senses in the literacy session to describe the nature around us, and come up with some amazing haikus:-

Birds tweeting softly-

ivy leaves swirling up the

trees, twisting around.

and

Crunchy leaves laying

silently on the soft ground-

squirrels hop around.

We then went on adventures in the school grounds with the year 1s: we thought about numbers whilst doing a scavenger hunt to find and count the number hidden, hibernating creatures. Followed by using our imaginations and the story cubes to come up with stories about the different creatures and plants we find in the nature around us (Wendy the butterfly and Freddy the fox were the stars of the stories!).