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Foster a love of gardening with Peter Rabbit this summer!
We’re celebrating 120 years of Peter Rabbit with this Grow with Peter Activity Pack, designed to spark children’s interest in growing plants while providing them with fun, hands-on gardening experience.
Gardening is great for wellbeing; it has positive physical and mental health benefits and anybody can do it.
Whether your school has a large vegetable plot, a small outdoor area or just a sunny windowsill, there are gardening ideas in this pack for your class to try!
This resource pack includes:
There are four sessions in the pack, each with a starter, discussion prompts and activity. The sessions are flexible and can be adapted and scaled to the needs of your children across KS1 and LKS2.
1. What is gardening?
Objectives: To consider why people garden; to understand that anybody can be a gardener; to identify fruits and vegetables that might be grown in a garden.
Activities: Read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, identify the fruits and vegetables Mr. McGregor grows in his garden; design a garden; start a class Gardening Club.
2. Looking at growth
Objectives: To describe how a seed grows into a plant; to make and record observations.
Activities: Plant a bean seed, watch it germinate and record observations.
3. Grow your own
Objectives: To sow seeds and care for seedlings; to write a short instruction text.
Activities: Grow some radishes to eat; write a set of instructions on how to grow radishes.
4. Upcycling in the garden
Objectives: To know what ‘upcycling’ is and why it is good for the environment; to use a range of construction skills to make a plant pot.
Activities: Make a plant pot from an old drink carton; plant and care for microgreen seeds.
Puffin Schools has been created by the children’s publisher Puffin to help bring together all the inspiring content we create for schools into one place.
The books on this website will range from those for EYFS through to primary and up to lower secondary school. You can discover our full range of books at puffin.co.uk
Puffin is an imprint of Penguin Random House, the world’s number-one publisher representing a vibrant community of publishing houses marked by unparalleled success. Through our world of stories, Puffin aims to open up the world to every child. Our mission is to inspire children to feel they can be and do anything, and to create readers for life.
Puffin started out as a non-fiction publisher, with its first title appearing in 1940. As the most iconic and well-known children’s book brand in the UK today, we are always on the lookout for innovative ways to tell the world’s favourite stories and for brilliant new debut talent and brands that connect with today’s young readers, from newborn up to twelve years old.
We publish a diverse and wide range of fiction, non-fiction, picture books and children’s classics. Our list includes some of the world’s favourite authors, illustrators and licensed brands, such as Eric Carle, Helen Oxenbury, Nadia Shireen, The Snowman, Doctor Who, Roald Dahl, Tom Fletcher, Jeff Kinney, Rick Riordan, Robin Stevens, and Jacqueline Wilson to name but a few.
Ladybird, Puffin and Penguin are imprints of Penguin Random House UK. Across their extensive list, we believe there is a story for every child, everywhere.
You can find information about books for all ages at penguin.co.uk
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We’ve re-named Puffin Virtually Live so that it’s easier for new teachers to discover it as part of Puffin Schools and to acknowledge that the show now premieres on show day, rather than being streamed live.
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