There is a saying about March:

“In like a lion, out like a lamb”.

This old saying suggests that if March 1st is a windy day, March 31st will be calm…

This March 1st, however, has been a glorious day – so we’re a bit worried the lion is yet to come!

This week we will be beginning our spring weather project in ELP Junior Science and the week beginning March 1st seemed as good a time as any to make inroads into this exciting new piece of work. We will be concentrating on the different kinds of weather in our introductory lessons – building a wall bank of words to describe the changing conditions. We might even find a few more old weather sayings to go along with it. Most people will also have heard of the expression “red sky at night, shepherd’s delight”…

There has been an awful lot of weather this winter! Most of it has been of the cold kind and we will be finding out just how unusual that has been…or has it? We will be looking at some extreme weathers with the weekend storms in France and Portugal providing us with a timely reminder that the elements can be a very dangerous aspect of everyday life.

We will also be looking to build our own weather station from recycled materials and then site it in the school garden to use it to monitor Preston Lodge weather between now and the end of the summer term. We will also be able to combine what we do in Science with our work on our Gardening course.

Bringing you our very own “local weather forecast” podcast will be great fun indeed! Michael Fish, eat yer heart out…