Suggestions for pupils’ activities in each of the four seasons of the year

Autumn

• Nature outings linked with various activities, observing and experimenting, for example seeds and fruits may be collected and used appropriately in art and design technology lessons.

• Making displays (exhibition) of products of nature (display of mushrooms, fruits, leaves). Making herbariums of tree leaves, prints of leaves and tree bark, and using them for a variety of art activities.

• Collecting of seeds and fruit for winter supplemental feeding of birds and wildlife, for example conkers, acorns, beechnuts, rosehips, rowan berries, maze, grass seeds etc. Making boxes and bird feeders pro supplemental feeding of animals.

Winter

• Replenishing of food in bird feeders, replenishing hay racks with collected fruits and seeds.

• Observing signs of animals’ presence (dens, burrows, shed antlers, remains of food, paths, tracks, bite marks on trees etc.),

• Getting to know the snow properties when making a snowman etc., observing ice on water and its properties (floats on water).

Decorating Christmas trees and making Christmas presents for their families and classmates

Spring

• Gardening in the school’s garden, planting of plants into flower boxes and flowerpots.

• Egg colouring, making a braided whip from pussywillow twigs, making of whistles etc.

• Trip to farms, watching the young of domestic animals

• Observation of life outdoors, recording of first spotting of bees, arrivals of birds, presence of animals which were hidden in winter, etc.

Summer

• Collecting of meadow herbs and leaves of trees for a herbarium.

• Outing to a pond, observation of aquatic birds, fish and insects.