Wetlands Week 2007

Look how much fun we had during Wetlands Week 2007 with over 200 school children looking for bugs and pretending to be a flounder. Wetlands Week is funded by Leader+ and delivered by Island 2000.








We all had an absolutely corking week learning about wetland habitats and wildlife. Four Island schools participated during the week and attended workshops run by Ian, Hannah and Jo from Island 2000, Jill Mears from the Environment Agency and Kathy Grogan from Wight Wildlife.



Jill's Minibeast Safari went down a storm, with all the children scouring the hedgerows for bugs and insects to view in their magnifier pots. We used the excellent FSC field guides to identify everything that was found.














Look at all the weird and wonderful minibeasts that the children made using arts materials brought by Island 2000's Arts team.


















Kathy Grogan and her team from Wight Wildlife laid on some exciting games and activities to show the children how different species were adapted to life in wetlands areas. We all had great fun pretending to be frogs eating flies and curlews eating worms.