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It’s National Insect Week! 🐛🐞🐜

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To celebrate this National Insect Week, Year 8 pupils from New Mills School have been busy creating drawings inspired by last week’s virtual trip to the Manchester Museum’s Beauty and the Beasts… Falling in love with insects exhibition:

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Here are a few awesome museum specimen drawings that have been submitted so far:

I am looking forward to receiving more of these gorgeous specimen drawings! Currently I have been spending the last couple of days observing and rescuing(!) Peacock Butterfly caterpillars who are on the move from the nettles next door… Here is a lovely little poem that sums up this week perfectly:

NMS does 30 Days Wild!

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As part of the Wildlife Trust’s 30 Days Wild campaign, 1-30 June 2020, I set Year 8 pupils from New Mills School the challenge of completing an Act of Wildness each day over ten days: for their health, for their wellbeing, and for the planet.

I have been so impressed by the effort and resilience of these pupils. Below are the super creative and top-quality results of these ten Acts of Wildness:

ACT OF WILDNESS: 1

ACT OF WILDNESS: 2

ACT OF WILDNESS: 3

ACT OF WILDNESS: 5



ACT OF WILDNESS: 6


ACT OF WILDNESS: 7


ACT OF WILDNESS: 8

ACT OF WILDNESS: 9

ACT OF WILDNESS: 10


🌸 Natura Insects 🦋

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“Just like living life, it’s about appreciating the present and making the best out of it.” [Raku Inoue, 2020]

For a project titled Natura Insects, creative photographer Raku Inoue arranges a variety of leaves and blooms to create the delicate components of stag beetles, butterflies, and other insects. Inoue uses real flowers which he then photographs…

As part of their home learning Art lessons, Year 8 pupils from New Mills School created their own botanical insect photography inspired by the work of Raku Inoue. Here are the amazing results:

“Here are the pictures of the insects we made. My dad had a go too, I really enjoyed doing this.” [Hazel]