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Oak Class absolutely loved searching for invertebrates last week. There were squeals of delight when centipedes or millipedes were discovered. And each group became quite competitive about the length of earthworms! Look forward to repeating this in October.
Bees are essential for your community, and the whole world! They keep flowers alive and well, flying and pollinating,buzzing around. Bees polinate trees, bushes, flowers, and vines, so like I said, essential.🐝
Reflection In fields where silver rivers run, And dawn awakens leaf and sun, The whispering wind through oak trees weaves A hopeful song through emerald leaves. The soil remembers every seed, Each careful hand, each gentle deed, For earth is more than ground and stone— It’s every life the roots have known. Among those voices, firm yet kind, Are hearts that keep the future in mind. Mary Creagh, from Coventry’s land, Takes a stand with caring hand. For greener paths and skies more clear, For forests strong year after year, Where rivers laugh and wild things roam, And every child can call Earth home. So let the wind and branches say: Protect the world we share today. For when we guard the soil and sea, We guard tomorrow’s harmony. 🌿🌍
Our estate manager Mr Robinson wrote to the Woodland Trust to get some saplings to plant them on the edge of the school grounds . So that they can reinforce the hedges and bring more habitats to the school grounds. So the Eco Ambassadors planted these saplings in the hedges by the driveway.
This year, as in past years, the Ballard Eco Ambassadors participated in the ‘What’s under your feet?’ campaign, which is a citizen science project in which we researched what was in the soil so that scientists could find out why some birds have been disappearing in some areas. During our search, we didn’t find many invertebrates in the soil, which is worrying.
Ballard School’s Eco Ambassadors have been taking part in tree numbering in the year of 2025. They have a club every Thursday for 45-60 minutes. The equipment that they are using are suitable for extreme danger like hammers and nails. The Eco Ambassadors have done other activities as well. Tree numbering is so that every staff member and student at this school can talk about a number instead of having to explain or walk over to the tree. This was to help the estates team keep trees healthy.
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The Eco Warriors at Garlinge Primary School and Nursery once again set out on our dig to unearth invertebrates under our feet! Here are our results: 5 worms (10cm or longer) 2 worms (8-10cm) 1 ladybird Our efforts were observed by: 1 gull We noticed that we had much longer worms this time and less millipedes! We hope that our findings will be useful to the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
