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Garboldisham school at Scarfe Meadows © Di McDonald
In this section of the website you can find activities, quizzes and puzzles and other resources to help teachers, parents and children enjoy and learn more about the headwaters of the Little Ouse valley. Scroll down the table to find downloadable presentations and activity sheets under a wide range of topics.
Garboldisham Primary School work closely with the LOHP on their local sites and much of the material here comes from their work. Both Garboldisham and Hopton Primary Schools work with the LOHP on creative arts projects; a whole school art project at Hopton School is described here. Nicky Rowbottom and Reg Langston wrote the material on this page which is based on their work with the schools, together with work inspired and run by artist Rosemary Humphries, by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, teacher Tamsin Young and the Goldfinch Foundation. The LOHP is grateful to them all, as well as to the Heritage Lottery Fund for supporting this work.
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All about peat |
web page |
Info for everyone on the amazing peat beneath our feet in the valley fens |
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| Children’s surveys - plants and minibeasts |
info, activity sheets, tally sheets |
(1) Using quadrats to compare plants in school grounds and a conservation site. |
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| Making homes for animals |
info + activity sheets |
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| ID sheet of plants on Broomscot Common |
info + picture sheet |
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Quizzes & puzzles |
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| Who’s been here? |
presentation with questions |
Animal droppings, homes and signs |
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| Wildlife in close up (1) |
presentation with questions |
Pictures + text with missing letters |
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| Wildlife in close up (2) |
presentation with questions |
Stunning photos, questions and fascinating facts. |
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| Word searches, and definition matching (simple) |
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| Word searches, and definition matching (trickier) |
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| Answers to word definition matching |
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Landscape |
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| A special landscape |
presentation with questions |
The Little Ouse Headwaters put into context. A bit of history and a quiz. |
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| A special landscape - notes and answers) |
notes |
Background notes and answers to the questions in the Powerpoint |
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| Changing scenes: Same places: different times |
presentation with questions |
LOHP and school’s use of fixed point photography to record change |
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History |
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| Children investigate peat as a fuel |
presentation with questions |
Description of project |
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| What was it like here? |
info sheet + questions |
Extracts from the oral histories recorded by people who have lived in the area a long time |
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Habitat management |
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| Children’s gorse experiment |
presentation with questions |
Various measures tried out to prevent damage to gorse – posed as a mystery. |
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| Restoring Broomscot’s pond |
presentation |
Description of process |
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| Working with willow |
presentation |
Description of process |
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| Restoring the river Part 1 – what was done and why? |
presentation |
Description of process |
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| Restoring the river Part 2 – Who did what? |
presentation with questions |
Description of process – focus on the people |
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Creative arts |
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| Hopton Primary whole school project |
presentation |
Description of project – strong art focus |
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| Birdswing | presentation | Description of a project – children recording and mimicking birdsong |
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Geocaching |
presentation |
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| Memories (Mervyn Cater) | Memories from the 1940s |
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Planning for keeping safe |
presentation with questions |
Exercise for children to start thinking about keeping safe |
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Other links |
list |
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