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The London plane tree is, as its name suggests, a familiar sight along the roadsides and in the parks of London. An introduced and widely planted species, it is tough enough to put up with city…
Great North Wood
Families - Outdoor learning
Discover one of south London’s best kept secrets, the Great North Wood
The Great North Wood was a vast wooded landscape, which once covered the low hills that rise between Deptford, Streatham, and Croydon. Much of the old Great North Wood was swallowed up by…
Outdoor Learning - Lessons in Nature
London Wildlife Trust provides practical education lessons centred within nature. These sessions are directly linked with the National Curriculum and can be tailored to suit a range of abilities…
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Celebrating and Exploring Outdoor Classroom Day by Keeping it Wild Trainee Max
Outdoor learning is, perhaps surprisingly, nothing new. Children have been learning outdoors for thousands of years – it is truly an enriching and interactive experience allowing children to…
Mushroom Magic in the Great North Wood
Enter the weird and wonderful world of fungi in south London's Great North Wood.
Birds of the East
East London, a hot pot of culture bubbling away at our feet. It’s well known for wonderful diversity, amazing food and some of the best pubs in the city. But what can we see when we look harder?…
A 'thank you' to London Wildlife Trust's Great North Wood team
A guest blog by Vicky Bruce, from the Friends of Biggin Wood group
Autumn colours in the Great North Wood
In a blog exploring the autumnal Great North Wood, project officer Edwin Malins celebrates a wonderful time of year to discover this ancient landscape in south London.