In Service Learning, we (me and the other service learning teachers) provide projects to give our students the opportunity to support both local and global communities. This year we’ve explored fast fashion, climate change, have supported our school’s charity drives and provided a winter wonderland fair with activities for lower grades. This term we have explored our local environment, especially the woodlands and low heathlands, and the wildlife found there. We’ve gone for walks trying to identify animal tracks and traces, bird sounds and trees. After this fieldwork and research, they created informative posters to raise awareness and appreciation of our local wildlife. I hope that learning about what lives just outside our classroom doors, the students will gain a deeper connection to, and responsibility for, our local and global environment.

Next up will be researching trees and making art in the woods!