A-level students from John Kyrle High School, Hereford Cathedral, John Masefield School in Ledbury and Newent Community College joined forces at JKHS on Friday, 18th March for a PE Revision Day. This is the fifth year running that such a course has taken place.

Two national speaking lecturers, Dave Cornel and Diane Skelly, both of whom have written A-level text books and examination questions as well as being chief moderators for physiology and psychology exams ran the day's events.

Pictured below, Mike Tiahan, Jenny, Sam and Deb getting the angle right. (I would have taken an interest in PE at school myself, had I known it was that much fun!) Later, the whole group joined in another practical exercise to revise the flow of blood through the heart.

Above. The first laying of frog spawn by Common British frogs of the amphibian family, Ranidae in one of my garden ponds was reported in the January edition of Nature Watch. I never touch this pond and so nature takes its course in the natural way. Progress towards tadpoles hatching from the spawn seems to have been slowed due to the recent spell of cold weather but the photograph above, taken on Saturday 19th March, shows that tadpole shapes are now beginning to develop.

Below. Frogs have also begun to spawn in the other larger and slightly less natural pond. This pond is shared with fish, is much deeper and has a pumped water circulatory system with a stream.