If a tree falls…
| Links to the story | Key Stage 2 and 3 programmes of study | Possible learning outcomes | Big ideas |
| If a tree falls… | recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things (KS2, Year 4); the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem, including food webs (KS3) | Know that the loss of trees provides new opportunities for growth in the wood | adventures in time and in space autumn stories flow and recycle being and becoming |
From the birth of leaves, we move to the death of a weakened ash tree, felled during a storm. All things in the wood are continually being (staying alive) and becoming (moving to the next stage of their lives). Eventually death is the next stage of life. We can mourn the loss of a favourite tree, (and see the Sycamore Gap tree for a more national recent example), but the loss provides opportunities for new growth, new life and new possibilities for Nowhere Wood.