Environmental Education
Starling Learning have been providing environmental education for schools and other groups since 1996.
School Workshops
We can visit your school to carry out workshops in the classroom and playground. Topics include:
- Bird watching
- Biodiversity
- Minibeasts
- Would a Gruffalo live in your playground?
- Stick Man – lots of stick activities including nest building, a web weaver for spiders.
- Shrek – mud and minibeasts in your playground
- Using your senses
We also offer STEM activities on an ecology/environmental theme.
Cost is £90 plus VAT for a half day and £150 plus VAT for a whole day.
Ecoschools
We can give advice and workshops on a variety of Ecoschool topics including biodiversity, improving the playground for wildlife and recycling. We also offer workshops for eco days of action.
STEM
We offer a wide range of activities on science, technology, engineering and maths, all within your playground. Topics include The Gruffalo, Big Bird Bake Off and Minibeasts Go.
Wildlife gardening
We can help you plan and construct garden improvements for wildlife including minibeast hotels, ponds, raised beds to grow flowers for butterflies and bees. We can also build you a mud kitchen. Please get in touch for details of costs.
Building a hogitat
Investigating the pond in winter
Mia with a very interesting minibeast
Eilidh going off to plant a forest of Aspens
Lochwinnoch RSPB Wildlife Explorers Group building Stock Dove nestboxes
Fionn learns bushcraft skills