18 pupils from Monkton school came with us to Lydstep Haven for a rockpooling session.   Keep Wales Tidy also came along and helped us out.   Rockpooling was followed up with a plankton and microscope workshop.  The pupils learned about life cycles and food chains.  They examined plankton samples under the microscope and made drawings of the different [...]

Year’s 5 and 6 from Haverfordwest VC took part in a mini beast hunt and microscope workshop on Friday.  We managed to get a video of a beetle eating a woodlouse, check it out below.

The pupils from Little Elms came with us to Lydstep for a spot of rockpooling followed by a microscope workshop.  They had the chance to look at all sorts under the microscope – including their own snot!!!

Ysgol Llanychllwydog & Ysgol Bro Ingli each had a workshop on microscopes and plankton.  They looked at some local plankton and made some drawings of the different larvae that thay saw.  The pupils had the opportunity to look at what ever they wanted to under the microscope – dead bugs were collected from the playground, [...]

Years 3 and 4 from Hakin school all participated in a follow up workshop to their day litter picking at Gelliswick.   

68 pupils from years 3 and 4 at Hakin school had a successful day litter picking at Gelliswick!  

30 pupils from Cilgerran VC school came with us to The Welsh Wildlife Centre which is part of the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales.  Half of the morning was spent pond dipping and the other half was spent on a bug hunt with a chance to look at the creatures under a microscope.

Year’s 3 and 4 came with us to Gelliswick to take advantage of the 0.26 Metre low tide on Thursday 29th September.  They found a huge selection of creatures including 8 different species of crab!    

An afternoon was spent at Newport Sands with Ysgol Bro Ingli and Llanychllwydog.  We rummaged around the rock pools before seine netting in the shallows.   

We took the juniors from Wolfscastle School to Brandy Brook in Newgale to do some kick sampling and river profiling.   The creatures that were found during the kick sampling were recorded and the biotic index was calculated during a follow up workshop.