Autumn at The Bramptons Primary

The children learnt about what happened in the autumn

The pupils at The Bramptons Primary School in Northamptonshire have been making the most of what autumn has to offer.

Class One pupils took part in a host of activities including a nature hunt.

They have also been working on a project to introduce wildlife to a conservation area in the school grounds.

Nature hunter Jasmine said: ''We found a lot of conkers, we like going around the field and finding things.''

The School backs onto countryside in the pretty village of Chapel Brampton and pupils, aged between four and seven years old, were eager to get out and about to see what they could find in an autumn nature hunt.

Thanks to there being a number of horse chestnut and fir trees in the village, the nature hunters found a wealth of conkers and fir cones as well as feathers, bark and apples.

Maisie who's six said: ''We went on a nature walk along the field and we are just drawing objects that we collected. We found acorns, leaves and berries.''

Science

On their expedition they also found a number of crawling insects and wildlife, but anything that moved (even just a little bit) was allowed to continue on its way.

Anything that didn't move was collected in a bag and taken back to the School for further study.

Back in the classroom, as part of a science lesson, the children were given the chance to look at their objects under new microscopes. They plug into the computer like a mouse and show the image highly magnified on the screen.

There were lots of excited children and a few 'wows' as they saw how amazing it was to see a fir cone in the greatest detail.

Making things

The new microscopes allow the pupils to see objects on computer screens

In art class, the youngest members of the school were having great fun mixing paints and leaf printing with all the traditional autumn colours of red, orange, yellow and brown.

Pupils got a chance to share their ideas for the refurbishment of the school's conservation area.

Sam, in Year Six, thought it would be a good idea to put in some bird feeders and a bird house.

Ellie, also in Year Six said: "We could put more nature areas up, like pieces of wood for little animals to go and live in."