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  • May 21st, 2015Field trips
    A trip to Gibraltar Point in Lincolnshire

    Last month I took a little time off from my books and visited Lincolnshire. As a bird watcher from my

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  • May 18th, 2015Field trips
    Year 5 experience owls and falcons at close hand

    As a follow up to the owl pellet dissection in Year 5, a visit was arranged to the Play Barn

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  • April 28th, 2015Field trips, Natural World Photo Gallery
    A Fossil Hunt on the Jurassic Coast

    The Jurassic Coast is England’s first World Heritage Site. Liesl had to write a diary entry as part of her

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  • April 9th, 2015Field trips
    A Tree Walk With Year 1

    Just before Easter I took Year 1 on a tree walk as part of their plant studies. We walked around

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  • April 7th, 2015Field trips, Science Around Us, Science Exhibition Gallery, Teaching Tips
    How to make a rain gauge for measuring rainfall

    In my last post I described visiting Towneley hall and seeing Richard Towneley's rain gauge which was built in the

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  • April 2nd, 2015Field trips, History Of Science
    Richard Towneley and the rain gauge

    For my occasional series of "Science is nearer than you think" I went three miles from home to Towneley

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  • March 18th, 2015Field trips
    A visit to sharks for British Science Week

    This week is British Science Week. There are lots of events taking place all over the country, so there's bound

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  • March 6th, 2015Field trips, History Of Science
    Science is nearer than you think

    To most people science has always been done in laboratories and local areas cannot have any connection with it. This

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  • November 2nd, 2014Field trips, Natural World Photo Gallery
    Salmon jumping in the North of England

    Tabitha aged 9 has sent in this picture and description: "One day, we went to see salmon jumping. It was

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  • August 21st, 2014Field trips
    Filey Brigg – then and now!

    And so it begins! Sixty years ago on Filey Brigg in East Yorkshire I discovered brittle stars. They are different

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Ken Walker

This website is dedicated to Ken Walker who was my first head of science back in 1971 who set me on a journey writing educational materials by asking me to make a booklet for 250 children visiting a zoo. He often reminded me of this but more importantly he was my mentor back in those days, letting me set up brand new science laboratories and run field courses at the schools outdoor pursuits centre and his advice stayed with me as I progressed in my teaching career and into my writing career too. Thanks Ken.

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