Examples of the Curriculum Work from Moira House School, Eastbourne.

A rainforest poem! by Georgina Cutler (age 13) & Eleanor Sharp (age 14)

The vines all sway in the tropical breeze,
As monkeys call beneath the trees.
The emergents climb up to the sky,
While Amazon birds between them fly.

The humid air is heavy and hot,
It helps the fallen matter to rot.
This enriches the moist forest floor,
Which grows the food for the Hyacinth Macaw.

The river harbours a bounty of life,
Piranhas with teeth as sharp as a knife.
Tree frogs with eyes that are ruby red,
And plants that grow up from the riverbed.

All is not perfect amongst the bright flowers,
We add to the ‘Extinct’ list every hour.
Golden frogs have disappeared over time,
The last time they were spotted was in 1989!

In 1651 we lost the beautiful coda,
And shortly after he was joined by the moa.
Nearly 35 species become extinct every day,
Do something about it or carry on your way!!!

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Amazon Rainforest by Victoria Howells (age 13)

Many different animals live in the rainforest (over 800). 300 of these are mammals. Many useful drugs have come from the rainforest. These have been very useful in curing certain diseases. The Amazon covers about 40% of South America and covers about 8 different countries. There is something like 300 species of tree in the Amazon Rainforest. Trees in the Amazon are continually being chopped down for money and about 356,200 square kilometers has been lost so far.
Amazingly high amounts of nuts, vegetables, oils, drinks, flavorings, fruits and other foods come from the rainforest.

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Scarlet Macaws by Jo Wilkins (age 13) & Issy Kelvin (age 13)

These are large and colourful, and live in South America and Central America. Some scientists believe that the Central American macaw is a sub-species of the South American macaw. The South American scarlet macaw is a red and yellow bird with white patches on its face and green patches on its wings. The Central American scarlet macaw is also red and yellow with white patches on its face, but it is larger, and has blue on its wings instead of green.

The Central American macaw is found in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, while the South American macaw is found in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Scarlet macaws prefer undisturbed rainforest. They eat fruits, nuts, flowers and nectar, and they often eat unripe fruit and nuts that other animals avoid.

These macaws also eat clay from riverbanks, but no one is sure why they do this. One hypothesis is that clay helps parrots to digest poisonous acids in the unripe fruit they eat.

A pair of scarlet macaws raises one or two young each season in a tree cavity nest. The young birds often stay with their parents for up to two years. The adult parrots will not rear another clutch until the young have left the nest. This means that the number of macaws increases slowly.

Deforestation has a big impact on the scarlet macaws. Without their natural habitat, they stop building nests and producing young, and have difficulty finding food to mange. A lot of scarlet macaws are sold as pets. We are finding out how to conserve these beautiful birds.

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One Life - Rainforest by Raisah Owasil (age 13)

Across the world a life lies hidden
To the human eyes that do not know of hardship
A life that blooms with strength during adversity
A life that is nearing the end of its time

Before I used to see a whole world
The trees would rise and tower above me
Plants of tender green would frill at my feet
As the water they bore dripped from their tips

I can remember the talk of nature
As monkeys and birds flew from tree to tree
My senses had been brought to life
While the beauty seemed to seep through the forever and the beyond

The atmospheric peace was in tune with the world
Nothing touched nor disturbed
Rain would fall in connection with a dream
The cycle not yet broken

Now the life is slowly being cut away
As machines which carry blades enter its corner
Now what lies is a barren plane
In years to come will our life be the same.

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Facts About The Rainforest by Hannah McNamara (age 13)

R are species are in the rainforests! There are millions of animals including tree snails, sloths, macaws and the rhinoceros beetle.



A ll the rare trees are being chopped down. They are used for mahogany and rosewood furniture.


I t is ruining the visual effects of the rainforests. They are beautiful but they are being destroyed.



N ew discoveries show that another type of plant, the Bromeliads, are related to the pineapple family.


F or all the wood that has been chopped down in the world, more that ½ of it is from the rainforests.


O ne fifth of all the world's plants and birds and about one tenth of all mammal species are found in the Amazon rainforest. This is the largest tropical rainforest in the world



R ainforests also offer some medicines for illnesses that humans can get.


E ventually, there will be no rainforests left in the world because people are ruining them


S tranglers are members of the fig family. They are plants in the rainforests. They help preserve the rainforests


T odays society is ruining the beautiful rainforests just for wood!

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The Amazon Rainforest by Amanda Feast (age 13)


The trees in the Amazon rainforest have four layers, the emergents, the main canopy, the under canopy and the shrub layer.

The emergents are the few trees that grow very tall to get as much sun light as possible. The canopy is where most of the trees grow and is normally around 30m above ground level. The under canopy is where most of the younger trees are, waiting for a space so that they can grow tall enough to join the main canopy. The shrub layer is very close to the forest floor. In the shrub layer is the lowest layer of plants on the forest floor.

The trees in the Amazon Forest have no leaves or branches on the tree trunks to allow the trees to grow taller and gain more sunlight also, at the base of the tree there are buttress roots, these give more support to the trees to allow it to grow taller. The leaves on the trees have drip tips to make it easier to shed the heavy rainfall, if the leaves did not have the drip tips then they would snap under all of the weight from the rainfall.

Animals that live in the rainforest are monkeys, butterflies, parrots, frogs, jaguars, piranhas, alligators and anacondas. Most animals live in the main canopy, the under canopy, swamps or in the shrub layer. In just one average 10-kilometre section of rainforest there would be around 750 species of tree, 400 species of bird, 150 species of butterfly, 1,500 species of flowering plant, 20 types of animal, 100 types of reptile, 60 types of amphibian, and countless amounts of insects and fish. That is well over 2,980 different species!

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WILL