Dennett Valley Children Investigate: “An OpportUNITY to Share Environment and Space”

Dennett Valley Children Investigate: “An OpportUNITY to Share 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. Dennett Interchange are planning to 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 come together and get up close with the local creatures of the Dennett valley. During the workshop the emphasis will be to create a greater awareness and educate the children about the living organisms that exist under their feet, with a core theme that explains biodiversity loss factors in this area of the country. The link between biodiversity and climate change are now unquestionably linked. Children during the workshop will be involved in practical activity and 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, for us all. The workshop is split into two main themes; practical action and species identification. Practical Action: Children will get the opportunity to construct their own Bug Hotel boxes, which they can take home and put in their gardens. Species Identification: The children will spend 10 minutes identifying the bugs that will use the hotels, 10 minutes, identifying 5 native tree species that the local garden bird use as their sanctuary, and the final 10 minutes will be spent identifying the birds that use the bug hotels as their food source (Their very own little larder/fridge).