It may have been raining rather a lot, but year 3 had a fabulous time carrying out some scientific field work on their residential trip to Juniper Hall. They worked really hard to think about the adaptations of the animals and plants in the various habitats and took part in a great range of activities. They set humane mammal traps and were very excited indeed to find a vole or two. The voles ran away very quickly, but not before we managed to get a good look at them. Many invertebrates were collected using sweep nets, sheet traps and pooters in the meadows and under the trees. We were amazed to find that our invertebrate colour predictions turned out to be correct. It was great fun to then go pond dipping and look at what we found under microscopes. Thank you so much to the Field Studies Council – it was an amazing trip! Year 3 will tell you which of the teachers had the best invertebrate “moves”!
