My Mum runs a group for Home educated children called Butterflies HE Group and for the last session before the summer break I decided to run a session making dream catcher out of wool and willow. It was good fun !
And here is a willow spider web I made in the same way at the Festival of Leisure
I have decided that I would like to do a college course and maybe a degree in something like Countryside Management when I am old enough so I am trying to do as much voluntary work as I can so that I can learn as much as possible about jobs in that area..... I love doing this kind of work , protecting the countryside is so important and I also love the litter picking because I hate seeing litter that people have dropped all over the place although obviously it would save us the job if they didn't drop it in the first place ! I will be at either Conkers or Rosliston Forestry Centre most days during the summer holidays and will helping with things like Wildlife Watch activities, Ranger crafts, Bushcraft and also some surveying of the local wildlife. There will be lots to do and learn. I have also decided that even though I'm 13 I am going to study my biology GCSE this year so I can start getting the GCSEs that I need to get into college.
Me and my brother doing some voluntary gardening at Rosliston Forestry Centre
This is me and 2 of my brothers off on a nature walk
Our RSPB family membership pack came the other day and it's awesome ! There was a free book and welcome pack for my Mum, a wildlife file, wingbeat magazine and phoenix welcome pack for me and a wildlife file, Wild time magazine and welcome pack for my little brother. We can now access the website pages and enter competitions and have free access to the RSPB resserves !
If you would like to join and support the brilliant work that the RSPB do please follow this link :
This is my brother looking at his wildlife file
We also recently found this magazine which is really good and full of all sorts of information. I will definately be getting this from now on :)
We went to Conkers yesterday for a couple of hours and the Rangers were doing a willow workshop so me and my Mum had a go. It was good but really hard to make the willow stay where I wanted it too. Willow weaving can be used to make natural fencing so maybe I will be doing it again in the future :)
Mmmm more practice needed I think :)
And finally......in August I am going to be going to Twycross Zoo to do a week of Zooniversity ! I really like going to the zoo and am really looking forward to it. We will be spending time with keepers seeing how they look after the different animals, seeing how they train them, looking at the work that the vet does, the conservation work that the zoo does, studying animal behaviour and enrichment for the animals and also how to do surveying and gathering info to be used in scientific studys. Soooo excited !
If anyone else would like to take part, the link to the zoo page is here :
I will try to keep updating on what I am doing over the summer but I will be busy busy :o)
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