Today we walked around the village, stopping to explore walls, snails, drains and ditches, mud, and a horse - encouraging the children to use all their senses and giving them chance to translate the learning from and interest in tubes/pipes and inside/outside spaces into the context of the real world.

Coversations grew up around the snails sheltering in a drain pipe and the path of a drainage channel that ran alongside the road, and individual children used their bodies to follow routes mapped out by landscape features such as kerbs, gravel patches and dry ditches, noting the sounds and textures that they found along the way, and recording their finds with cameras.