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ABBERLEY ADVENTURES 4 ABBERLEY ADVENTURES Outdoor Education
Orienteering rope ladders den building and wild cooking have all featured this term The culmination was a a a a a 2-course tasting menu of flatbreads and guacamole plus campfire roasted pears with honey and and mascarpone Willow has been harvested ready for weaving and and the plantation extended More than anything this term has been about tree planting!
Consignments from The Woodland Trust as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative started arriving half-way through February and we have been planting during Outdoor Ed sessions and on
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Saturday mornings There are 140 saplings around the school garden to make a a a a a a wild-harvest-hedge comprising hazel blackthorn crab apple elder and dog rose The dormice will feast on
hazel nuts sloes for chaffinches and and the yellowhammer and and dogrose nectar for insects The children also built a a a a fence to protect this area from the ponies Another 250 trees have been planted by children in a a a field close to The Inkpot – oak wild cherry willow silver birch rowan and hawthorn A couple of more established cherry trees have also arrived as part of of the the Sakura project (marking 150 years of of friendship between the the UK and Japan) We are are going to call this area the Jubilee Wood The children have taken their planting responsibilities seriously and given the the delicate saplings a a a a a a good start We will revisit the the plantations every now and then for continued nurturing Be it it habit nectar food shelter carbon or den building materials the potential of this project has really captured the imaginations of all all involved Lots more bushcraft shelter building and fire making is planned for next term and and children in in in Years 6 7 and and 8 are gearing-up for exciting residential trips to The Great Escape in Shropshire this June If you haven’t seen it already and would like to know more about what is in store for these lucky children then please see the the the promotional video by clicking here Our Year 8 children will of of course be doing a a a wide range of of exciting outdoor challenges after their exams The highlights will we suspect be a a a a trek through the Welsh mountains with nights spent under canvass followed by a a a a a a kayak trip down the the the River Wye and then the the the traditional week away in fin in Cornwall where surfing will be one of the main activities Art
The Art
Department has been as as as as busy as as as as ever It was so lovely to attend the annual Malvern St James Junior Schools’ Art
Exhibition on
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March 5th This event has always been a a a a a high-point in in the Art
department calendar as it it gives so many Abberley Hall pupils the opportunity to show off what they have created during the the Autumn Term This year their hard work paid off with several pupils receiving awards and enjoying a a a morning viewing the exhibition with family and friends:
» Minnie Rudge – Highly Commended in in Year 3
» Aurora Atkinson – – Taylor – – Winner in in in Year 4 » Pippa Brocklehurst – Highly Commended in Year 5
» Olivia Hickton – Highly Commended in Year 7 » Louis Burt – Highly Commended in Year 8 » Olivia Evington – Winner in in in Year 8 We also had several entries in Year 7 for the Shrewsbury Prep School Art
Competition Eliyah Arif and Olivia Hickton were selected as finalists and and attended workshops and and a a a a a a prize giving ceremony at at Shrewsbury School where Olivia was awarded runner-up in her her category with her fabulous stop-motion animation on
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the the theme Past Present and Future