• 1

Poems for learning by heart, poems for performance but, best of all, poems to inspire. 

Cut out the caterpillar cards and place a piece of double-sided sticky tape across each caterpillar. Ask the children to sticky tiny samples of woodland materials onto the caterpillar.

Give your local trees a clean bill of health with these official-looking, class-issued 'Clean bill of health' certificates.

Amadeus’s search for his father has taken him from chip shops to Sherwood Forest and now to infinity and beyond. Is he really going to find his dad in space?

Choose a tree, head out with pencils, crayons and a measuring tape and fill in the boxes to create a record of it.

Use the map on your whiteboard to help children visualise the key events in A Thumping Great Rabbit.

Use this slideshow for inspiration when telling woodland stories or reciting or creating woodland poetry.

Bel Deering takes us through some useful minibeast basics – very useful for when you are out and about on your bug hunt.

Arm your class with magnifying glasses, notebooks, cameras and viewing jars and head out and about with these sheets to find out if your local trees are under attack.

Use these data sheets with the woodland animal shapes resource.

Page 5 of 6

Hermes topic

Welcome