walk to pitchcroft following a leaf treasure hunt

Following up on the pupils art lesson of drawing leaves, we walked to pitchcroft following diagrams of different shape and named leaves. The pupils showed an interest in finding the various leaves which were placed on the ground and high up in the trees and marking with a pencil the ones they had found. Whilst we were walking, we talked about where the leaves came from, what term we were in and why the leaves change colour. We then talked about how old each of the trees were and how you would be able to tell. The pupils said that there are circles in the tree stumps and guessed that the tree was 200 hundred years old.