Mark out a nesting territory, roughly half the size of a football pitch for around thirty learners aged seven to ten.
Gather the learners and ask for a volunteer to be the predator, giving them a water squirter and a blindfold.
Gather the learners and ask for a volunteer to be the rabbit, who stands facing away from the group.
Mark out two lines about ten metres apart.
Half fill pairs of small containers with different natural materials, such as ash keys, small stones, water, twigs, hazelnuts, sand, dried leaves or wet mud, so each pair of containers sounds identica
Spread a set of animal picture cards face down on a level surface.
Agree a start and finish point for a short walk, and agree that from the first step to the last nobody will speak.
Gather the learners and inspire them with a story about a roe deer, which might bound over fallen trees to evade predators, or jump straight up, called pronking, to get a better view of the landscape
Divide the learners into groups of four or five.
Explain that owls are silent hunters with exceptional hearing, able to detect a mouse moving under three hundred millimetres of snow, thanks to ears hidden beneath their feathers that stretch from the