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Back to schools

17th Jan 2023

During Covid, Living Uplands FREE Education Resources were a popular download for home learning. Now there has been the opportunity to use these valuable learning materials in the classroom.

Local schools are once again welcoming the Education team from Durham Wildlife Trust, after a long period when in-person visits to school were impossible, due to Covid restrictions and then time spent on lost learning catch-up.

Towards the end of 2022 there was an opportunity for Living Uplands Short-eared Owl education resources to be used in the classrooms of Frosterley Primary School and at Stanhope Barrington.

John Hayton, Education Projects Officer at DWT, spent time with the pupils using Living Uplands education resource materials to explain the living environment of our endangered upland birds. He used giant Jenga to help the young people learn what happens when habitats are compromised or removed.

Pupils at Frosterley Primary School learning about food chains using FREE education resource materials from Living Uplands.

Pupils at Stanhope Barrington learn how changes in the food chain or living environment impact on wildlife in the Weardale uplands.

There was very positive feedback from the sessions, with more visits planned over the coming months. For Science Week in March, John has requests to visit and use the Living Uplands FREE Source to Sea education resources to talk about plastics in the environment.

Living Uplands has a range of FREE Education Resource packs available to download from its website: on Black Grouse, Curlew, Short-eared Owl, and Source to Sea (plastics in the environment).