KS1 Story stick trail
Pupils go on a trail around the Wakehurst gardens collecting fallen plant materials to attach to their own story stick.
Level
Key Stage 1
Duration
45 minutes
Allocated space
30 pupils per group
Pupils get creative and make a story stick using materials collected in our wild botanic garden. The story stick can be used as memory jogger back at school to follow up on the Wakehurst visit.
Learning outcomes
We design our sessions to match the learning outcomes in the national curriculum. All our sessions have a cross-curricular approach and are tailored to suit the educational needs of your group.
We aim to give pupils opportunities that are difficult or impossible to create in the school environment.
This session offers pupils the opportunity to:
- Ask simple questions.
- Identify and name the parts of plants and trees.
- Recognise that some plants lose their leaves during the winter and some do not (deciduous, evergreen).
- Select and collect suitable material.
- Understand the need to choose only fallen plant material.
- Creatively construct the story stick.
Curriculum links
This KS1 visit supports and enhances the Science curriculum offered in schools but could also be linked to other parts of the curriculum e.g Art and Design.
Year 1 - Plants
- Identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees.
- Identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees.
