This week we have started our rock pooling season with school groups.  Portfield school came with us to Lydstep Haven and Broad Haven school searched their local beach for lots of different creatures.  

Over one hundred pupils from four different schools attended our Science Aglow event as part of National Science and Engineering Week 2012.  The pupils each took part in four workshops provided by the Marine Conservation Society, Eco Centre Wales, Silent World To You and Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.  The day ended with a fantastic presentation by Sarah Beynon [...]

21 pupils from St Aiden’s School in Wiston spent the morning kick sampling in the river next to St David’s Cathedral.  

We took the pupils from Little Elms to explore Dale.  First of all we did some seine netting in the estuary then we headed to the beach for some rock pooling!  

On 15th January 2012 William McNamara  was at the South Pole and he was kind enough to collect some ice for us!  As St Florence school have been learning all about our frozen planet we took our melted ice to show them and to find out what they had learned about the polar regions.  

Elly Morgan from Oriel Y Parc delivered a workshop on Mongolia to children from Roch after school club.  The round house at Oriel Y Parc has been converted in to a traditional Mongolian ‘Ger’ which is the home of a nomadic herding family.  The exhibition is called Tsagaan Sar (White Moon) and it is celebrating [...]

Silent World aquarium brought their travelling collection of reptiles, amphibians, marine creatures and mini beasts to the Merlin Theatre in Pembrokeshire college.  The event took place over two days with four schools attending.  The pupils participated in three different work shops each before finishing the session off with some snake handling. Mary Immaculate  

Pembrokeshire College hosted a variety of activities as part of the BBC Stargazing LIVE season.  120 primary school pupils linked to the Buzz club took part in a rocket building workshop as well as a session in the Planetarium where they learned all about our solar system.

On Saturday 3rd Decemeber we spent the day at Heatherton world of activities with a group of young carers aged 12-17.  The morning was spent completing the high ropes adventure course, the afternoon was spent on the various activities that Heatherton offers such as archery and lazer clay shooting.

Students from Van Hall Larenstein the University of Applied Sciences in Holland braved the weather and headed out on the Milford Haven water way with us, Dailing Sailing and geologist Sid Howells. The students explored the geological features of the Haven as well as the industrial ones.