Your Winter Bird Garden
Teachers, wondering where to start with your winter garden lessons?
Register for the BirdWatch Ireland Webinar on Monday 17th January at 7pm.
NESC has also provided a recorded tutorial for schools to support them in developing, maintaining and learning about a winter bird garden.
This tutorial can be used directly in the classroom.
Outdoor Learning Free Resources & Guidelines
Worksheets trails and quizes to download
The Year Round Organic School Garden - A Guide to Designing, Creating and Using an Organic School Garden has been updated and reprinted, it is now available through Irish Seedsavers.
The beauty of Barn Owls showcased in a new children's book
Susan O'Donohoe SNA in Holy Family Junior School, Ennis and former Heritage in Schools Expert presents a free online book about Barn Owls. Designed to be shown to students on the whiteboard. It has a reading age of 9 yrs + but can be read to younger children also. The book was commissioned by Galway County Council and Creative Ireland.
Access Birdwatch Ireland's press release and read the book here
