As part of their continual training for our Environmental Leaders at Penryn the students attended a training session on ecology survey techniques held by Dr Jo Henly.  At the session they learned the value of surveying a range of environments and the variety of techniques that can be used to find out what lives in these environments and the abundance of each.

The next session is to bring the data together and decide on a plan of action for the ecology area – what habitats are working and what could be improved.

After they received their training on plant identification our Environmental Leaders at Penryn College then invited some primary school students up to the school to show them how to identify trees in our ecology garden.  Not only was it a great day for the year 6 students but a true leadership experience for the Environmental Leaders involved.