The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is the country’s largest nature conservation charity and aims to inspire everyone to give nature a home and secure a healthy environment for wildlife. They are currently working in partnership with Aldi to connect young people with the natural world. They are offering free 90 minute school outreach sessions to primary schools and early years settings whereby trained RSPB educators visit schools to work with staff and pupils within the school grounds. So far over 1000 schools have taken up the offer which is funded by Aldi through the government’s single use carrier bag levy.
Sessions for primary schools are:
Wild Words
Exploring your school grounds through the eyes of an animal, collecting natural things and generating ‘wild words’ that can be used as a stimulus for literacy work.
Giving Nature a Home
Designed to help your pupils map and score your school grounds for nature - identifying habitats that already exist and spotting opportunities for creating more.
Bioblitz
We’ll help your pupils hunt for plants and minibeasts under every rock, bush and doormat.
Sessions for early years settings are:
Wild Words
Travel around your outdoor space thinking about the journey of an animal. Collect natural discoveries and use ‘wild words’ that can be used as prompts for retelling the experience.
Habitat Explorer
What marvellous minibeasts do you know about and where would you look for them? Find minibeasts in your grounds by identifying habitats that already exist and spotting opportunities for creating more.
Sensing the World
Explore your outdoor area using your senses. Make your own nature’s colours collection, discover and describe textures as we create a piece of wild art.
The sessions are currently on offer in selected cities and surrounding areas: Aberdeenshire, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bradford, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Gateshead, Glasgow, Greater London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Poole and Swansea. If you are interested, simply fill out their online form and somebody from the RSPD will get back to you.
