Nettlecombe Revisited

The Lynton Green Ambassadors joined the Bridgwater Heritage Ambassadors for a joint residential trip the Field Studies Council centre at Nettlecombe Court. The weather was not as sunny but the group made the most of it and took part in activities such as rocky shore exploration and natural crafts.

Nettlecombe Court Revisited Glen’s version

Nettlecombe Court.

Last time…

• Got there at lunch time.
• Team games, battleships, welly wanging and that step thing.
• Stream dipping, searching for different types of freshwater animals, bugs etc.
• Setting out mammal traps to be opened the next morning.
• Went for a night walk around the grounds to see if we could find any tracks from animals.
• Free time J watched TV played games etc.

Next morning…

• Breakfast, fry up.
• Went to open the mammal traps and Aaron found a wood mouse.
• Left…

This time…

• Settled in
• Played team games outside, welly wanging, thing with a drainpipe and an orange…
• Nature walk around the woods, looking for tracks and listening for bird and animals.
• Setting mammal traps in the back garden to catch mice or voles etc.
• Free time

Tuesday…

• Opened the mammal and found 4 wood mice, most of them found in the dark and sheltered bushes.
• Went to classroom and talk about the things we would find at a rocky shore.
• At 10.45am we went on the bus to the beach at watchcet and looked for rocky shore animals we found crabs, anenomies and limpets and a lot of sticky mud.
• At 1pm we had jacket spuds with a selection on toppings after lunch we wrote our blog  for the website  (which is this)
• At 5 we did arts and crafts in the class room were we decorated tiles using things we had found on the nature walk and down the beach.
• At 6pm we had dinner of pizza and chips.
• At 7.30 we went out for a bonfire.
• At 8.45pm we came back into the centre (good timing it was just starting to rain).
• 9.00 we socialized with the other people enjoying the last night at Nettlecombe.