• Workshop or Training
• 13 Oct 10:00 am

“Awareness and Connection to a shared Environment and Space”

Dennett Valley Children Investigate:

“Awareness and Connection to a shared Environment and Space”

Dennett Interchange will Coordinate and offer the P6 and  P7s of the two local Primary Schools the opportunity to take part in our Good Relations week event. The Schools will come together and learn about their shared local natural environment and how they are connected to such.

Who are the target audience
The target audience will be the P6 and P7s of the two local primary schools in Donemana/Dunamanagh village. This will equate to around 33 children, with staff added, the event will cater for around 40 participants.

What will happen:
Dennett Interchange will deliver an environmental education workshop with the Donemana and St Michael’s Primary 6 and 7 school children. This will be a shared environmental education workshop, with children getting the opportunity to get up close with the local creatures of the Dennett valley. During these workshops an emphasis will be driven through that describes biodiversity loss in this area of the country. The link between biodiversity and climate change are now unquestionably linked. Children will get the opportunity of see how changes in their everyday lives and habits can help to combat some of the negative impacts that are adding to climate change and biodiversity loss. Thus allowing the participants the opportunity to connect with the natural world on their doorstep.

The workshop is split into two main themes; practical action and species identification.

Practical Action: Children will get the opportunity to connect with the local aquatic river resource, helping to get hands on with a survey and sorting of the various nymphs and their families.

Species Identification: The children will spend 10 minutes identifying the aquatic bugs that inhabit the river Dennett, 10 minutes, identifying 5 native tree species that exist along the river corridor, and the final 10 minutes will be spent identifying and investigating the fish species that frequent this area of the river and depend upon the bugs as their primary food source (Their very own little shopping mall).

We have noted that there is a certain request within the proposal to address hard- hitting and current theme issues. It is our belief that the climate action emergency and biodiversity decline locally and globally is very hard hitting, within our delivery we will not feather around the issue, added, it is also our opinion that the very food-chain and how nature actually interacts is being misrepresented, we want to highlight the real world around us, this workshop offers us the very opportunity to do just that.

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