These are usually based on working directly with one
class group for a period of approx 1.5 hrs, for example, up until first break,
between first break and lunch-time or in the afternoon. All of the workshops
are environmentally themed and include a range of Environmental Education
techniques, catering for all styles of learning.
Workshops can be booked individually or a as a series. Special offers may be available for multiple bookings.
Creative Recycling - Waste Worriers Workshop
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This is a lively workshop in which the key aim
is to increase awareness of problems caused by waste, where waste is coming
from and what we can do with it instead of throw it away. Within the primary
school programme this workshop asks participants to think through their own
contribution to waste problems and learn about different materials found in
our waste before embarking on an exploration of waste and reuse in a crafty
creative recycling session where. Within the first part of workshop
participants are guided to learn by focused games and activities. In the
second part a creative space is provided and learning is participant led.
This is concluded with recap games and a chance for participants to think
about how their creative recycling has also helped reduce waste. This is a
really great workshop for any school trying to implement recycling in the
classroom and grounds.
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Flower Power Workshop
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This workshop introduces participants to
natural systems through the idea of the powerful life of a flower.
Participants are encouraged to realize what a flower needs to sustain life
and what it gives back to the system it is in. They can make connections
between the flower and themselves. At primary level this workshop includes
elements of game playing listening to storytelling art and craft.
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Wonderful Water Workshop
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Water is one of the most wonderful elements on
Earth, not only does life depend on it but it behaves in weird and
fascinating ways. This workshop gets participants engaging with water in its
different forms and thinking about the water cycle in simple ways. They will
also think about how we use water and explore what it would be like without
all the water we use. In this workshop participants will interact with
demonstrations and media, they will also use role play and creative drama to
imagine different ‘water worlds’. This is fun workshop that fits excellently
with primary curriculum on science and nature.
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Feed Me! Sustainable Food Workshop
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This is truly participant centered workshop
that looks at the values of want need and choice from an individual perspective
about food. Food is possibly becoming one of the more sensitive and contested
issue of modern life as we are increasingly aware of global disparities and
more health conscious in regards the impact on our own bodies of the food we
eat. As well as looking at these socio-physiological functions of food there
is a recognized need to reconnect the idea of food production and consumption
with environmental protection and enhancement. At primary level food
sustainability is a sensitive and difficult subject to broach because of the
displacement of the ‘choice’ factor in young children. At primary level this
workshop highlights that food is part of nature and reconnects the personal
relationship between food-self and nature looking at each of us as a active
agent in a food habitat. This workshop can be ideally adapted for any school
with a garden.
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The
Wacky Wild Nature Workshop
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There is so much about
nature to fascinate us, from the wonderful to the grotesque. This workshop
introduces the participants to some of natures more unusual creatures in an
imaginative and fun way. It has elements of gaming, creative play, movement
to music and craft with plenty of space to hear from the participants in
group story telling.
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