Butterfly World

The whole of year seven visited Butterfly World in Hertfordshire.

  

On the 12th and 13th May, we took our Year 7's to Butterfly World in St Albans. We were very lucky with the weather and managed to enjoy both days without getting wet, with the students producing some beautiful study sketches.

We gave each student a piece of A3 paper and told them to fold the paper to create a constantine styled booklet. When opened up the students would be left with a full A3 page study sheet.

A students sketch of the Giant Ant!

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Miss White leading the observational drawing of the ant.

At the end of the students (and staff!) were lucky enough to be involved in insect handling. This involved stick insects, giant African snails and cockroaches!

During the insect handling we were able to see where the life of a butterfly begins. We were even lucky enough to see some breaking out of their chrysalis'

During our visit we also walked around the decorated, unsual, beautiful gardens, where the students could continue with their observational drawings.