Whilst we are locked in, giving nature some breathing space we have the amazing opportunity to reflect: With this pandemic you can imagine we haven’t had many school visits, on our last school visit we had the pleasure, and I mean pleasure, of talking to kids to about how we can encourage nature in their […]
This year we’ve taught in three schools. These are St Aidens, Rutherford and Kensington primary schools, with 2 classes in the final two and 1 in the first. With each class we do two sessions, the bee session below and a small group work shop session. This involves splitting the class in three, with two volunteers […]
UCL Roots & Shoots have had a great year! We visited several schools across London to lead our two-day workshops, with the first workshop concentrating on energy and pollution and the second workshop focusing on conservation issues such as habitat loss, poaching and overfishing. We finish each workshop with our favourite activity – the positive […]
“We’d warned the kids last year about energy issues, but we didn’t think they’d be affecting the schools as well! This year UCL Roots & Shoots renewed its successful partnership with Argyle primary school in King’s Cross only to find out, one bitterly cold morning in February, that the winter weather had frozen the school […]
Year 5 were granted a look into the Blind Community. The workshop revolved around the difficulties and challenges faced by blind people and how we can sometimes go out of our way to help them if they need it. The children also grasped the adaptations and solutions developed by and for blind people to help […]
Year 6 learned how important to life water is and how crucial it is to save it. From water guns to sprinklers, we tried to identify most water-consuming items pupils use at home. We took part in a competition about the use of water in the household and the winning team was rewarded with mouth-watering […]
This week Year Five got down to the bare bones of extinction! With the help of some skulls from UCL’s Grant Museum, the pupils of St Michael’s C of E school, Camden learned about the dangers facing wild animals. We looked at the skeletons of endangered animals and talked about why they may become extinct […]
Today the UCL Roots & Shoots team were sent by Special Agent J to Year 4 of St Michael’s School. Our Mission? Prevent a future Ice Age! We learned about where our food comes from….. Friederike’s apple came from China, Geoffrey had one from Chile, but Jess had found one from Kent! We decided that […]
This Monday, 8th February, Four UCL volunteers visited Years 2 and 5 at St Michael’s CofE School in Camden. Year Two met UCL volunteers Luke, Pierre, Filip and Jess and their alien friends Busta and Pong to learn all about RUBBISH! We learned where rubbish goes after it leaves our bin and discovered that 70% […]
On February 1st, 2010, UCL Roots & Shoots Team presented their first workshops to St Michael’s CofE School, Camden. Three volunteers worked with Year One and Year Three. Year One first learned which animals live in the cold, how animals adapt to cold weather and the ways we can help local wildlife survive the winter. […]
