29
Jun
Year 1’s Okra Flower Printing at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden
This week, Year 1 enjoyed printing flowers with okra at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden....
Curve Garden
15
Jun
Year 1’s Leafy Learning at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden!
Year 1 had an exciting time at Dalston Eastern Curve Garden again this week, learning about different leaves and their names. They made observational drawings of leaves and also enjoyed making 'fossils' using clay with leaves. They measured the plants and had lots of fun!...
04
May
Year 1’s First Dalston Curve Garden Trip
This week, Year 1 had the first of their trips to the Dalston Curve Garden. The children thoroughly enjoyed meeting the lovely gardeners who tend to this wonderful local setting. The children explored the gardens, looking at all of the beautiful plants and flowers and...
13
Sep
Wiggly Worms and Snazzy Snails Art Gallery in the Curve Garden with Year 2
We visited the Curve Garden for a one off gallery session in which our artworks are exhibited! The exhibition was called 'Wiggly worms and snazzy snails' and featured collage pieces relating to plants and mini beasts that live in the garden. We also took a...
21
Jun
Year 1’s Mini beast hunt in the Curve Garden
During their visit to the Curve Garden this week, Year 1 went on a mini-beast hunt and then created blot paintings using coloured ink and kitchen paper. We spotted many mini-beasts including ladybirds, spiders, flies, aphids, ladybird larvae and snails....
03
May
Reception trip to the Curve Garden
We had a fantastic time at the Curve Garden. We spent time smelling, touching and looking at the beautiful flowers in the garden. We used our magnifying glass to look at the different parts of the flower. We drew and labelled our favourite flowers. We...
17
Jul
Making fruit smoothies and enjoying the Curve garden in Year 1
It was our final session at the Dalston Curve Garden this week! The children had the chance to make their own fruit smoothies and discuss all of the information they have learnt during the entire project. Furthermore, it was wonderful to see the children receive...
12
May
Art and Science during Year 1’s visit to the Curve Garden
During our visit to the Curve Garden, we had a cross curricular Art and Science lesson. We had great fun creating clay presses and rubbings of Maple, Oak and London Plane leaves....
28
Apr
Planting seeds in Dalston Curve Garden with Year 1
At the Dalston Curve Garden, Year 1 looked closely at the life cycle of plants. We planted our seeds and added the finishing touches to our Nature Journal front covers. We cannot wait to add diary entries in the future!...
27
May
We have been developing our Scientific skills by exploring different types of leaves in Year 1
As part of our Science focus on plants we have been using the skill of close observation. Whilst at the Curve Garden this week we studied leaves and noticed what was similar and different about them. There is such a great variety of shapes, sizes...