Education

A key area for the Parks Service is our work with schools. Our aim is to promote the use of parks and open spaces as outdoor classrooms for wildlife, heritage and environmental education.

Dave Beveridge, our Urban Environment Awareness Coordinator who is based in Morgan Jones Park, offers curriculum based activities for pupils and advice for teachers designed to maximise children’s understanding and enjoyment of their natural environment.  Site visits are available by arrangement throughout term time at a park or open space close to your school. For further information contact Parks Services.

Dave also works on projects to enhance the wildlife in the parks with help from local volunteers, university students and local business.

So far the completed projects include:

• Planted a wildflower meadows in Morgan Jones Park
• Created and erected over 200 bird nest boxes and 100 bat boxes with local school children
• Built an otter holt with Fleur-de-Lys Primary School
• Cleared an area of scrub to create a reed bed with Cardiff University
• Created a woodland glade with Cardiff University

Dave also runs regular activities in parks, which include,

• Pond dipping
• Guided nature walks
• River sampling
• Butterfly transecting
• Surveying wild flowers
• Sponsored bird watching
• Looking at almost any part of the natural world