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LEEFletAutumn/Winter 2010

LEEFlet

Newsletter of London Environmental Education Forum Autumn/Winter 2010

Contents

News & Events

Woodland craft training a fun learning weekend 1

LEEF AGM 2010: Habitats for frogs 2

A sunny invitation to teacher champions 2

Wildlife Gardening Forum 2

Seed gathering in London 2

What the Bee Sees Childrens art competition 2

Urban gardeners questioned! 3

A fruit adventure in London! 3

Let Us Feed Your Senses 3

Training

Training: Managing Challenging Behaviour 4

Carbon detectives in schools! 4

Facilitation for Learning for Sustainability 4

Engaging volunteers in visitor studies 4

Winter Tree ID Course 4

Woodland craft training a fun learning weekend

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Native American Proverb

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

Urban gardeners questioned!

Garden lovers and school and community gardeners questioned their way to urban gardening enlightenment at LEEF Urban Gardeners Question Time at the Garden Museum in London on 4 November 2010.

The participants dug into the brains of some of Londons most inspiring urban gardeners:

Catherine Miller(Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens)

St. John Stephens(gardening expert, BBC London)

Dusty Gedgeand John Little (Londons green roof experts)

Richard Reynolds(guerrilla gardener and author of On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries)

Lia Leendertz(The Guardians gardening correspondent)

Lydia Davis (Landscape Design and Projects Manager, Trees for Cities)

Elaine Hughes(Wildlife gardening expert, London Wildlife Trust)

Helen Babbs(writer and journalist, an aerial, edible gardener, author of My Garden, The City and Me: Adventures in the Wilds of London)

A fruit adventure in London!

Abundance London held its first Abundance Fruit Day in Chiswick on 16 October 2010.

Abundance is a team of volunteers who harvest city fruit for distribution for preservation (e.g. jam) or for selling the surplus to local restaurants and shops on a not-for-profit basis. The money goes back to the project or to local charities.

Abundance Londons Fruit Day was a celebration of the joint efforts of three groups schools, restaurants and residents. For this Day, working together with local primary schools (staff, children and parents), Abundance London picked over 1000 kilograms of surplus fruit from 65 local trees. And local residents showed up with bags and sometimes barrow-loads of apples.

The big juice press, the star attraction, pressed over 800 kg of apples into juice. And hitting the stalls were a variety of products, such as chutneys, preserves, cordials and cakes all made from fruit that would have otherwise rotten into waste. And the contests ranging from rhubarb baton relay race to the longest fruit peel contest added fruity aroma to the great atmosphere.

Next year - more trees, more fruit, more schools, more jam, more juice, more fun...

More info:

Karen Liebreich and Sarah Cruz

HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected]

Photo from HYPERLINK "http://www.abundancelondon.com" \o "http://www.abundancelondon.com" \t "_blank" www.abundancelondon.com

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Robert Orben

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

Bishop Mandell Creighton

Froglife: Froglife is a national wildlife charity committed to the conservation of amphibians and reptiles from frogs to lizards and saving their habitats. Established in 1989, Froglife coordinates a number of national and regional projects, such as the Frog Mortality Project, Toads on Roads and Green Pathways.

HYPERLINK "http://www.froglife.org" http://www.froglife.org

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

Erich Fromm

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

LEEF AGM 2010:

Habitats for frogs

The AGM of the London Environmental Education Forum (LEEF) was held at the ZSL London Zoo on 15 July 2010.

Jules Howard, a guest speaker from Froglife, discussed how to enthuse children on the subject of habitats and showed how to create a frog-friendly habitat in a school playground. Before that, the zoo education staff took the members on a tour of different habitats in the Zoo, discussing how these areas can be used for engaging children.

LEEF members had brought habitat activities they use with children and there was time for sharing of such resources as well as mingling. No, none had brought any frogs!

A sunny invitation to teacher champions

Your school lacks some fresh rays of solar education? Why not turn to Sunny Schools from Solar Aid?

The Sunny Schools programme, open to eco-coordinators and KS2 teachers, helps teachers bring to life the science of renewable energy and climate change with a global perspective. Participants will be entitled to an education pack containing hands-on, investigative activities, a class set of practical solar kits and a twilight training workshop exploring these vital issues and how to teach them.

Solar Aid invites potential teacher champions committed to a sustainable London to teach the Sunny Schools programme at their schools.

Solar Aid, an innovative charity, tackles global poverty and climate change, enabling the worlds poorest people to gain access to clean renewable power.

More info:


HYPERLINK "http://www.solar-aid.org/" http://www.solar-aid.org/

Wildlife Gardening Forum

The Wildlife Gardening Forum held its International Year of Biodiversity conference in London on 17 November 2010. It highlighted the first results from the Forum's Plants for Bugs study at Royal Horticultural Society Wisley, and the national launch of Dr Jennifer Owen's new book Wildlife of a Garden: A Thirty Year Study.The conference was the Forums contribution to the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity.

More info: HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]" [email protected]

Let Us Feed Your Senses

Let Us Feed Your Senses Conference took place in London on 29 November 2010.

Opening the conference, Dr William Bird, Natural England's Strategic Health Advisor, focused on the benefits of the natural environment for physical and mental health and general wellbeing. This special day of presentations and workshops was hosted by people involved in Let Nature Feed Your Senses. They shared a selection of special moments of engagement and insights from recent farm and nature visits.

More info: HYPERLINK "http://sensorytrust.us1.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=23764d0d3f63686562cbbe029&id=673a04946a&e=d1fedd92f9" \t "_blank"http://www.letnaturefeedyoursenses.org/letnature/Conference

Photographs from HYPERLINK "http://www.letnaturefeedyoursenses.org/" http://www.letnaturefeedyoursenses.org/

LEEF Woodland Craft Training Residential Weekend took place at the Lambourne End Centre in Essex on 4 and 5 December 2010.

At this programme, the participants learnt woodland crafts, willow weaving and traditional woodland games from a team of trainers, including Tony Sharp (Lambourne End Centre), Geoffrey Sinclair (The Woodland Trust), Antony Chadwick, Ute Villavicencio and Alison Pelican (Wimbledon Common Nature Club). The skills would be useful in making Christmas presents and could be passed onto young people.

For the participants it was a memorable weekend in a beautiful countryside setting as they enjoyed food from the farm in the warmth of the bonfires.

Engaging volunteers in visitor studies

The Natural History Museum and Association for Heritage Interpretation organised a workshop on Engaging volunteers in visitor studies on 12 November 2010.

It was based on the Museum's successful 'Evaluation Volunteer Programme' now running for the second year. The participants benefitted from meeting the Learning team from the Museum and discovering the benefits of running a volunteer programme that engages volunteers in visitor studies.

More info: HYPERLINK "http://uk.mc290.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]" \t "_blank"[email protected]

Training: Managing Challenging Behaviour

LEEF training on Managing Challenging Behaviour was held at Holland Park Ecology Centre on 25 November 2010. It was conducted by two experienced trainers Sam Lewis LWT Senior Youth Officer and Beth Jones FSC Trainer for working with secondary schools.

Carbon detectives in schools!

The Southwark Council conducted a free training session for teachers under the Carbon Detectives scheme on 19 October 2010.

The first half of the session focused on raising the profile of school associated carbon emissions and how teachers and school staff can lower them. The second half focused on the Carbon Detectives scheme and the toolkit and offered teachers with guidance on how to make the best use of the scheme in reducing their schools carbon footprint.

The training session introduced the Carbon Crisis and the three issues that the Carbon Detectives scheme focuses on energy, transport and food. It covered several related aspects, from carbon calculators to action planning.

More info:

Tracey Franklin


020 7525 3758, 079 3268 3305

Winter Tree ID Course

The Field Study Council in association with the South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) conducted the Winter Tree ID training session in Lambeth on 9 November 2010.

It focused on improving participants identification skills of common London park trees using bark, buds and seeds. They were enjoyed the opportunity of trying out range of activities suitable for secondary schools.

More info:


Facilitation for Learning for Sustainability

SEEd (Sustainability and Environmental Education) will conduct a four-day course titled Facilitation for Learning for Sustainability in London in January-March 2011.

The programme consists of four facilitated training days and a supported action learning project. Participants will have the opportunity to try different techniques under the guidance of Ann Finlayson, an experienced facilitator and educator.

Dates: 25 & 26 January and 29 & 30 March 2011

Location: St Ethelburga's Centre, London

Booking:

Email HYPERLINK "http://uk.mc290.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]" \o "mailto:[email protected]" \t "_blank" [email protected] or complete the online booking form at HYPERLINK "http://www.se-ed.org.uk/events/facilitation-for-sustainability.html" \o "http://www.se-ed.org.uk/events/facilitation-for-sustainability.html" \t "_blank" http://www.se-ed.org.uk/events/facilitation-for-sustainability.html

Seed gathering in London

The Tree Councils Seed Gathering Season ran at a number of locations in London from 16 to 30 October 2010. The Mayor of London, The Royal Parks and the London Wildlife Trust joined forces to promote this programme.

LEEFlet

The newsletter of LEEF (London Environmental Education Forum)

Issue: Autumn/Winter 2010

Guidance

Anna Portch

LEEF Co-ordinator

HYPERLINK "mailto:[email protected]"[email protected]

Editor & layout designer

Asitha Jayawardena

LEEF Communications Intern

HYPERLINK "http://www.aij.t83.net" http://www.aij.t83.net

What the Bee Sees Childrens art competition

Cool It Schools next children's art competition 'What the Bee Sees' is now open and its good for garden biodiversity too!

More info:

HYPERLINK "http://www.coolitschools.com/what-the-bee-sees" \t "_blank" http://www.coolitschools.com/what-the-bee-sees

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