Year 4 were totally ‘wowed’ as they spent the day outside taking part in a carousel of activities to introduce them to their new topic, ‘The Attenborough Effect’, which is based on the work of David Attenborough, sustainability and climate change.
Our Griffins were Go-for-it Gorillas as they explored our Forest School area where they played a game of ‘Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle’, here children were given a range of scenarios and in their teams they had to decide and justify which ‘R’ it was – this produced many interesting discussions. In pairs, children then took part in a scavenger hunt and had to find lots of different things in the forest!Our Griffins then got dirty potting up all the plants that had sprouted from the seeds the whole school planted before the Easter holidays!
Children then littered the school field – yes, you read that correctly!! They discussed how seeing all this litter made them feel and the words ‘disgusting’, ‘gross’ and ‘angry’ were commonly mentioned. We then talked about the recycling bags that are used in Dudley homes, and recycled the litter into the appropriate bags before chatting about what happens to it once it is collected.
Their final task was taking part in an immersive Now Press Play experience where pupils were a child based in York. Their house flooded due to a river bursting their banks. They were saved by a climate scientist who was trying to prove climate change and together travelled around the world to prove it! Our Year 4 Griffins travelled to Australia to experience the bush fires, visited the Arctic to experience melting icebergs and rising sea levels before finally visiting Parliament to submit evidence to the politicians where they manage to win a vote in favour of banning fossil fuels in ten years’ time.
We all had so much fun, but also learnt so much!
