Class 4L at Hawes Side Academy in Blackpool, UK has been researching habitats and wildlife found in the UK. They compiled this information into a book to share with their partner school, Igwamiti Primary in Nyahururu, Kenya. Hawes Side also holds conservation weeks to teach students about protecting biodiversity and wildlife. They have sensory gardens, growing beds, fruit trees, and a wildlife garden with a pond to encourage natural habitats in their school grounds.

1. Hawes Side Academy - Blackpool - UK
Igwamiti Primary School - Nyahururu - Kenya
Wildlife Conservation & School Gardens Project.

3. Class 4L have been busy
researching the habitats
that can be found in the
UK

4. They found out
about the different
types of animals
which are unique
to the UK

5. They learnt about
the different
organisations
which help protect
UK wildlife.
All this
information has
been collated in a
book for
you, our partners
in KENYA.

6. We recently
help a
conservation
week in
school.
Children
learnt about
how humans
are have a
profound
impact on the
diversity of
wildlife in our
world.

7. Humans are
destroying habitats as
well as hunting
animals.
We all need to work
together to help
protect the diversity of
our planet.

9. Art work by the Infants

10. We invited a wildlife photographer into school, and learnt about the
plight of orang-utans in Borneo. We raised enough money to adopt
four baby orang-utans who had lost their mothers through poaching.

12. This is our sensory garden. It has a variety of
plants which you cam smell, touch, see and
hear.

13. Our growing beds allow children to
grow food that can be used in school.

14. We grow onions, courgettes, sweet corn,
potatoes, carrots, lettuce, radish and even
beetroot.

15. We grow lots
of fruit
Including
Raspberries
Strawberries
Blackcurrants,
gooseberries
and rhubarb

16. We have a
range of
fruit trees
Pear
Plumb
Cherry
Apple
And baking
apple

17. In 2010
we
planted
over 400
trees in
schools
grounds
to make
our own
native
woodland

18. We have a wildlife
garden
With pond, which
children like to visit.

19. We have reared our own
chickens and look after
them in school.

20. We try to encourage wild life in
school.
We have bird boxes, butterfly
and insect homes

21. Our children enjoy
playing in the school
gardens.
When it is warm and
dry we eat lunch
outside.