When we arrived at Scotswood Gardens, we gathered under the shelter and discussed the different parts of the life cycle of a flowering plant. We had to match up the definitions by finding our partners, then we put ourselves in order.

After that, we went into the woods and used the natural materials we could find to make models of flowering plants and we labelled the parts.

At Scotswood Garden, they have beehives, so we played True or False with facts about bees. Did you know bees pollinate a lot of the food we eat? We need them to help us grow our crops!

After that, we had a chance to explore the gardens, including the ponds, beehives, willow dome and vegetable gardens. We all had a sticky bee to try and collect pollen from the flowers. It was so peaceful.

After lunch, we had a chance to do some different activities in the woods: den-building using branches and tarpaulins, potion-making in the herb garden, tie-dye using natural materials, and we all got a chance to make a newspaper plant-pot and plant our own sunflower or bean.

We had such a fun day and learnt so much about plants!