Education and Kidszone
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust embarks on several projects to help inspire and aid children's exploration of the natural environment through hands on educational activities. We currently have two childrens projects (Wildlife Watch and Running Wild) operating which allow interactive hands on experience with the natural environmental. For more information click here;
Wild about York!
We are now coming to the end of our two year Wild about York project. The main aim of the project was to provide high quality outdoor education on green spaces around York for schools and the community, in order to promote a greater appreciation of the green spaces in York. This project aimed to deliver educational sessions on local green sites or on school grounds.
The project involves the production of an education pack, which will be a high quality resource for teachers to use when delivering outdoor education on local green sites or on school grounds. The education pack will allow teachers to be fully equipped with everything they need to conduct an exciting and effective outdoor education session. It will contain lesson plans that will support the National Curriculum objectives for Key Stages 1 and 2 and will be linked to the QCA schemes of work. The pack will also contain risk assessments, maps of local green spaces and furthermore provide lots of stimulating ideas. Lesson plans within the pack will cover a wide range of subjects from Science and Citizenship to Music and Maths.
Our education pack has been incredibly popular, here are just some of the comments we have received:
Having just started in my role with Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust as Ed officer I’m on the look out for some new ideas. A college recommended your Wild about York pack. Its brilliant! It would be really useful for me to get some ideas and inspiration from it. Katie Gee, Education Officer, Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust/Ymddiriedolaeth Natur Maldwyn
I am on a mission to try and put together an educational programme that will wow all Radnorshire schools into visiting our reserve at Gilfach.When I saw your Educational pack on line I could only dream of having time to talent to draw up such an incredibly professional and inspiring document.Suzie Fraser,People and Wildlife Officer, Radnorshire Wildlife Trust
Download the Wild about York Education Pack - due to the size of this document it needs to be downloaded in sections:
For futher information please contact Vicky Harland