The Year 2 children have had a wonderful trip to Ashridge. They were blessed with warm, but not too hot weather and thoroughly enjoyed exploring the habitats there, learning to identify and name a number of trees including sweet chestnut, holly, hawthorn, oak and beech. The children enjoyed exploring the habitat below the logs and leaves and found many minibeasts including centipedes, harvestman spiders and rove beetles. It was a very exciting day and the children were superb, with one parent commenting ‘I am absolutely blown away at how well behaved and engaged the children were today. They are an absolute credit to the school’. We are very grateful to the parents who were able to accompany us to Ashridge, without whom we could not have run the trip.
We-amazed-Elizabeth-with-our-answers 
Ready-to-go-on-a-walk-to-identify-and-name-trees 
What-trees-will-we-find-today? 
Its-a-sweet chestnut-tree 
We-loved-the-name-of-this-flower-a-foxglove 
Maybe-its-another-of-the-hundreds-of-beech-trees-that-we-saw 
Can-you-see-the-centipede? 
We-really-did-find-a-rove-beetle-which-was-very-exciting 
We-collected-a-small-number-of-minibeasts-to-help-us-identify-them 
Sweep-the-net-along-the-grass-and-see-what-you-can-find 
We-even-collected-a-cricket.-in-the-net 
Collecting-insects-in-the-grassland-habitat. 
Using-a-net-to-collect-minibeasts-in-the-grasslands-was-great-fun 
How-many-children-can-you-spot?