The children in the Junior Room are learning about the life cycle of the frog. It has been fascinating to watch the tadpoles hatch from the frog spawn and begin their development into adult frogs.

To facilitate nature studies in schools around the country a blanket licence allows teachers to collect frog-spawn for use in the class-room. Frog eggs, laid as spawn, gradually turn into tadpoles and they in turn go through metamorphosis – the process whereby aquatic tadpoles turn into juvenile frogs. Frog spawn kept in glass tanks in class allows the children to observe and learn about the development stages of the frog.