Migrating to William Marshall Primary School
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On a lovely warm day in late September, the Flock Together project migrated down the road to William Marshall Primary School in Welney village.
The pupils of William Marshall were well prepared for our project as they were currently learning about birds and even have swans as part of their school logo. As so many of them lived in the local area it was lovely to hear all their personal anecdotes of swans flying over their houses and seeing the swans in the fields around them.
As it was such a nice day we did the first part of the session outside in the school yard. Using a giant map pupils literally walked across the world to find out where different types of birds live. We then covered how birds are able to fly with several volunteers demonstrating the adaptations that allow birds to fly and survive in their wetland habitats. Pupils got hands on with a pair of whooper swan wings and took a closer look at a birds bone to see what makes them so light.
For Karen’s part of the session we returned indoors for some wetland calligraphy. Pupils used wetland plants such as reeds and willow to write down what lives in a wetland using the wetland associated colours of blue, green and brown. We then collected in the main hall to read our words aloud and see all the wildlife and other wetland words we were able to come up with.
