You may be aware that this week was Science Week at St. Matthew’s and, throughout the school, several exciting events took place organised by Mr Peck (our Year 5 teacher and Science Coordinator).

Here in the FSU (Foundation Stage Unit), we wanted to think of a project that would link with our current ‘Out of the Egg’ topic and eventually decided to set ourselves the challenge of building a bug hotel!

Once planning permission was granted (i.e. we chose a suitably flat, sheltered area in the nursery garden!) we began to gather together our building materials.  Many thanks to Mrs Morgan & Mr Peck who kindly sourced several pallets for us and to Mr Norris who donated lots of bricks.

Work on the bug hotel began yesterday during our mix-up session (when the Nursery & Reception children play together) and quick work was made on completion of the first floor ‘leaf’ rooms and the second floor ‘twig’ suites.

Next week, we will be starting work on the third & fourth floors.  Who knows, we may even be able to add a penthouse suite!  We hope it will eventually look something like this…

If you happen to have any of the following at home, we would be most grateful for donations:

• Old garden pots (ceramic) – broken is fine.
• Old roof tiles or ceramic guttering/pipes – again broken pieces are fine.
• Broken pieces of kitchen or bathroom tiles
• Corrugated cardboard
• Pine cones
• Bark & small logs
• Straw & bamboo sticks
• Long cardboard tubes (kitchen roll or longer)

Many thanks!