Practical conservation days at Bell Heath. Building willow and hazel fences, planting trees, planting seeds and much more.

John Muir Award is a national award, but not every pupil will get it, most do! You have to show team work skills, determination, enthusiasm for the environment and how to conserve nature.

There are four elements:

Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share.

A sample timetable from a John Muir week can be obtained from Jeff Herbert.

We also run teacher courses:

Teacher Course: John Muir Approach to Environmental Education

at Bell Heath Study Centre.

Courses can be provided for whole school INSET days or keep looking on Web-site for dates.

Lead Teacher: Jeff Herbert.

Cost: £150

 Please bring clothing and shoes suitable for working outside.

Course outline: To provide participants with some practical activities that they can take back and use in schools to promote learning in the outdoors. To show how environmental education can help to promote the outcomes of Every Child Matters, Sustainable Schools, the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto and the requirements of the National Curriculum. To introduce the approach used by the John Muir Award to environmental education and to provide participants with contacts and resources to develop environmental education in their schools.