Explore real local wildlife through captured footage, focusing on how badgers live within their environment. Pupils investigate behaviour such as feeding, movement, and patterns over time, and consider how habitats provide what animals need to survive.

They are encouraged to ask questions, make observations, and use evidence to explain what they see, building a clear understanding of how animals depend on their surroundings.

Identify common trees using leaves, bark, and visible features. Pupils compare similarities and differences between species, group them, and begin to understand how plants grow, survive, and change through the year.

The session builds observation skills and introduces simple classification, helping pupils recognise how plants fit into the wider environment.

Investigate how animals leave signs of their presence in the environment. Pupils explore tracks, feeding evidence, and habitats, learning how to recognise patterns and link clues together.

They use this information to make simple conclusions about which animals are present and how they live, developing skills in observation, comparison, and reasoning.

Explore how ponies were used in everyday life across Britain, including farming, transport, and mining. Pupils learn about the role of pit ponies and how animals supported work and communities in the past.

They compare how this has changed over time, building an understanding of local and British history and how people and animals worked together.

Pupils learn about biodiversity in woodland environments, exploring the wide range of plants, animals, and smaller organisms that live together and depend on each other within a habitat. They begin to understand how these living things are suited to their environment and how changes within the habitat can affect what is able to survive there.