Sharing and Celebration Day
Sadly, today was the final day that we worked with our amazing group at Torquay Academy. They have achieved so much during their time with us and today gave us an opportunity to reflect on what they had done and learned. Today’s session was to share their achievements and learning and the group worked on […]
Conservation day 2 at Berry Head
This weekend, our students headed over to Berry Head for their second active conservation day. After we parked up, we hurried over to the headland because Sarah Matthews from DolphinZone was waiting for us and there was a pod of common dolphins offshore! This was incredibly exciting and Sarah was able to tell us all […]
Creating a Wildflower Meadow
For the last two weeks the group have been hard at work creating a wildflower meadow in the school grounds. Its right by the headteacher’s parking space so we hope that in the summer Mr Margetts will be welcomed to school with a lovely display! More importantly, the meadow and bug boxes will provide a […]
Conservation Day at Berry Head
Today was a wonderful day where our students took part in some practical conservation at Berry Head! First of all we made our way to a patch of ground where we would be clearing gorse to make a better habitat for the local invertebrates. The group was shown how to use secateurs, loppers and bow […]
Bug Boxes
We have had a really busy couple of weeks on the project! Amy and Eve from Life on Edge brought in a load of materials and we have all supported the group in making some bug boxes. We had a demonstration piece and along with school teaching staff we’ve worked to put together the bug […]
Invertebrate Research
The first part of the Life on the Edge project is an educational element where the group are finding out about the south Devon coast and why it is special. We’ve used information sheets from LotE as information stations and the group have circulated with a time limit to gather as much information as they […]