Room 16: Working Towards the John Muir Award

In Room 16 we have been working on our John Muir Award all year. This focuses on Outdoor Education.

In order to achieve our Bronze Award, we have to do 4 days work in our chosen outdoor space.  We chose our playground, as we felt it was a bit bare and it was readily accessible to us.

Our plan was to blur the boundaries between the indoor and outdoor spaces.  Here’s what we’ve done so far:

• Learned about the Scotsman John Muir and his work protecting natural spaces in North America.
• Explored our playground in different seasons and from different perspectives.

• Planted lots of bulbs, seeds and seedlings in science lessons.

• Planted flowers.

• Experimented with flowers in science lessons

• Used natural and recycled materials in craft projects.

• Been for lots of walks in the local community, to the shops, duck pond, parks and outdoor fitness area.

• Fed the birds (ducks, robins and sparrows) at the local duck pond.
• Decorated milk bottle plant pots for house plants in our classroom, which the pupils look after.

• Made a sound sculpture with pots and pans in the playground, for pupils to play with.

• Hung up a large thermometer in the playground for everyone to use.

But we are not quite finished yet.  We are in the process of making some more interactive and noisy sculptures for the playground.

We would like everyone to be able to enjoy using the outdoor spaces in school more, so here’s hoping for some dry weather!