Courses & schemes
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Ambassador schools
The National Park Ambassador Schools are carefully planned units of work incorporating literacy and numeracy frameworks while helping schools to become ambassadors for their areas and the park as a whole.
The quality outdoor learning experiences have strong links to physical adventurous activities. The well-being curriculum is greatly enhanced and respect for the outdoor environment is promoted.
There are ample opportunities for teachers to grow in confidence in using their outdoor areas at school, in their local communities and further afield in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park area.
Outdoor learning course
28 April – 4 May 2025
More information will be announced soon!
Short outdoor active learning ideas to help learn about Curlews:
Build a nest!
You will need:
- Outdoor space with natural materials
- Leaves and twigs
- Challenge your pupils to collect natural materials to make a nest for a ground nesting bird. Work in groups or one big team!
Extend: Provide pegs, tweezers, pairs of chopsticks or lollipop sticks to use to mimic the beak movement of a bird.
Take a photo of your nests! How many people can you fit in your nest?
Dig it!
Curlew use their long beak to poke through soft mud to find their food.
You will need
- A spade or trowels
- Outdoor space with soil
- Dig a small area of ground. How many worms can you find? Imagine how hard Curlews have to work to dig out their food!
Camouflage game
Curlew’s speckled plumage helps them stay camouflaged in the grassland. Play some games to help emphasise the effectiveness of camouflage.
You will need:
- Cut pieces of wool of different colours into ‘worms’ and place around your outside area.
- Challenge your pupils to find the wool ‘worms’.
- Gather the wool worms in.
- Count how many of each colour.
- Ask which colours were easiest/ hardest to spot?
Create Curlew Art
- Collect natural materials to create a collage of a curlew.
- Take a photo of your Curlew!
- Colour in a Curlew egg – Colouring template
- Colouring template with speckles
- Play Curlew Countdown Game
LoveOurRivers
This #WOLW24 we’re asking you to pledge your allegiance to our rivers — by promising to love them and by making some everyday changes that will help us in our wider mission to improve water quality.
Young ambassador award
We are encouraging all children to become National Park Young Ambassadors. By becoming an Ambassador, you will have learnt something new about the Bannau Brycheiniog and you will have thought about something that you can do to make a difference.
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