my wild school

How The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country can bring the natural world to your school.

Protecting wildlife where you live

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The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country aims to make environmental education available to every child. Learning outdoors allows children to explore, be creative and imaginative, develop confidence and self-esteem and feel com-fortable taking risks in a safe environment. The physical and mental benefits of spending time in the natural environment are well documented.

“The world is mud-luscious

and puddle wonderful.”

— E.E. Cummings

Every year up to 15,000 children participate in our exciting and inspirational environmental education activities. From minibeast trails and pond-dipping, to day conferences, forest schools, role-playing and debate we can tailor a package to suit your needs.

1.Hands-on [learning outside the classroom] activities led to improved outcomes for pupils and students, including better achievement, standards, motivation, personal development and behaviour.” - Ofsted, Learning outside the classroom: How far should you go? (2008)

“Imagination is more important

than knowledge.” Albert Einstein

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BRING A CLASS TO OUR ENVIRONMENT CENTRESECOPARK: SMALL HEATH BIRMINGHAM has many different and exciting demonstration features. There is wind and solar powered energy generation, a demonstration wildlife garden on the scale of a typical suburban garden - complete with a wonderful fig tree that produces a huge harvest of figs each summer. There are reedbeds, used for ecological water treatment, banks of compost bins, a tree nursery, the famous ‘telepole wall’ and there are always a variety of new and different activities depending on what our young visitors have been up to in recent weeks.

MOORCROFT ENVIRONMENT CENTRE: MOXLEY WALSALL is situated next to Moorcroft Wood Local Nature Reserve, owned by Walsall Council. Planted just over 100 years ago on a former colliery site the reserve is an amazing illustration of how diverse and exciting urban wildlife can be.

The mature woodland offers great opportunities for youngsters to experience and study nature, the large lake allows them to discover a whole new world of waterbirds and minibeasts.Moorcroft Centre offers national curriculum linked environmental education activities to schools across the Black Country.

At both sites our environmental education experts offer national

curriculum linked activities to schools and groups.

Options include one off sessions to regular visits from a few hours to a

whole day.

We also offer teacher training in various aspects of environmental education and a comprehensive range of Forest School activities.


Book a session at ECOPARK / MOORCROFT ENVIRONMENTAL CENTRE t ) 0121 454 1199 e) [email protected]

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LEARNING THROUGH FUN. LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM.

The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country offers a wide range of fun, exciting and engaging activities, regular sessions and events. Getting children outside the classroom provides challenging, exciting and different experiences to help them learn. They are involved in practical activities exploring, investigating and enjoying the wonders of the natural world.

“Children learn best through

everyday experi-ences with the

people they love and trust, when learning is fun.

The best place for these experiences is outdoors, in the

natural world.” — Centre for Families, Communities,

Schools and Children’s Learning.

SCHOOL GROUPS

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All sessions provide an unforgettable experience and can be tailored to you. Our staff can deliver activities on one of our reserves, at our environment centres, or in your school grounds. Our activities enhance and compliment the curriculum. We can offer programmes around specific areas of interest – history, maths, science etc, or provide cross-curricular activities.

To book a session with our EDUCATION STAFF contact us: t) 0121 454 1199 e) [email protected]

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THE SESSIONS WE OFFER INCLUDE: •Forest Schools: up to 15/20 children

•Outdoor learning experiences for larger groups

•Wildlife Watch is the junior branch of The Wildlife Trusts & the UK’s leading environmental action club for kids. We run sessions, help pupils achieve Watch Awards or set up a group in your school.

•After School Sessions (can be with parents)

•Habitat creation sessions with pupils: planting trees, sewing meadows,

•making bug hotels


Our passionate Forest School staff can provide one-off or regular programmes of activity that encourage independence, teamwork, confidence and self-esteem in children and young people as they explore and experience the natural world for themselves. Forest Schools are fun and child-led, involving hands on learning experiences in a local woodland environment.

All sessions can be tailored for different key stages, and multiple sessions or extended programmes of work can be designed to have built-in progression from one session to the next, tailored to the experience and understanding of young people.

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TEACHER TRAINING: we can put together a bespoke training package for teachers to feel confident delivering inspirational sessions in the natural environment. Contact us for more details.

SCHOOL GROUNDS: HABITAT CREATION, OUTDOOR PLAY AND LANDSCAPING•Our team will work with you to make space for nature and wildlife on your grounds.

•Develop projects that can include pupil involvement such as creating a wild patch, making bird/bat boxes and other hands on activities,

creating a pond, a woodland walk, a willow dragon, bug hotels, small meadows or woodland.

•Design and build environmental education spaces within school grounds or community areas.

•Reshape your outdoor space: constructing outdoor classrooms, shelters, wildlife areas and creating larger wildlife habitats.

•Make your school grounds a Nature Improvement Area by enhancing the wildlife habitats that are already there or by creating new ones. We can work with teachers and children to undertake wildlife surveys and produce a wildlife management plan. Our team has experience of creating woodlands, hedgerows, meadows and ponds across Birmingham and the Black Country.

•Offer services such as tree safety surveys and landscape design.

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

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For more INFORMATION and to ARRANGE A QUOTE contact us: t) 0121 454 1199 e) [email protected]

Being part of the Wildlife Trusts we want all our projects to be as beneficial to wildlife as possible, thus most of our natural resources are sourced within a 50 mile radius of Birmingham from wood-

lands managed for a wildlife benefit.

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Ten half day sessions with a Wildlife Trust staff member delivering outdoor education sessions

Two full days with Trust staff working at your school site or one of our educational sites. This could be working with pupils, creating habitat at your school site or teacher training sessions.

One school assembly on wildlifeand nature conservation tailored to appropriate key stage

Two session plans for outdoor education activities relevant to priority key stages.

One full day with Trust staff working at your school site or one of our educational sites. This could be working with pupils, creating habitat at your school site or teacher training sessions.

BBC Wildlife Trust School e-newsletter

Your school name on our website

Our Wild School Membership Certificate with Wildlife Trust branding

Your school name in our Annual Review

Wildlife Focus and Natural World members’ magazines three times a year

Wildlife Watch (for kids) and Wildlife Link (for educators) Magazines four time a year with ideas and resources for outdoor education

BRONZE SILVER GOLD PLATINUM SUPER PLATINUM +

BENEFITS BENEFITS £75 £250 £500 £750 £3000


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Your local Wildlife TrustBirmingham & the Black Country is the place where the Urban Wildlife movement began. We were established in 1980 from a campaign to save treasured green spaces from development. Now The Wi ldlife Trust for Birmingham & the Black Country, with the help of over 10,000 enthusiastic members, continues to work to make the urban environment a better place for wildlife and people.

Unique Urban WildlifeThe wildlife of Birmingham and the Black Country is as rich and varied as that of any other part of the United Kingdom. The rare and the special are here, from scarce mammals like otters and water voles to bright dragonflies and horned beetles.We want wildlife to thrive so future generations can encounter, experience & enjoy our natural heritage.

Green spaces we all can enjoyFrom the gnarled, ancient trees and wetlands at Moseley Bog, to the astounding wealth of grassland wildflowers and butterflies on The Rowley Hills we manage our Nature Reserves for the benefit of wildlife and the community.We support communities and friends groups to help them look after and enjoy their local green spaces.

CONTACT US: T: 0121 454 1199 E: [email protected]

The Wildlife Trust fo r Birmingham & the Black Country,16 Greenfield Cescent,EdgbastonBirmingham B15 3AU

© Photo by Amy Lewis

© Photo by Vicky Nall

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