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Exploring The Natural World
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Exploring the Natural World

A visit to Suntrap and Epping Forest for under fives will encourage children to experience the natural world using all their senses.

 

 

Curriculum Guidance for the Foundation Stage Links

Personal, social and emotional development

• Be confident to try new activities

• Respond to significant experiences- showing a range of feelings when appropriate.

Knowledge and understanding of the world

• Investigate objects and materials by using all of their senses as appropriate.

• Find out and talk about their environment and talk about those features they like and dislike.

• Look closely at similarities and differences between animals.

Physical development

• Move with confidence and in safety.

• Move with control and co-ordination.

• Travel around, under, over and through balancing and climbing obstacles.

 

 

In the classroom children will be given an opportunity to handle some of the "Suntrap animals" e.g. trees frogs, hissing cockroaches and rabbits.

They will then be taken on a sensory walk in Epping Forest which may include; a paddle in the stream, climbing over logs, collecting natural materials or looking for small animals under the leaves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Risk Assessment

 

 

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