FREE WORKSHOP for Teachers and Youth leaders

‘Helping bring back our special NI wildlife from the brink!’

Who: Teachers and Youth leaders of young people 5-25 years

When: Saturday 11th October 2025 Time: 1030-1300 (Coffee teas and tasty treats on arrival!)

Where: Heaney Homeplace, Moyola Hall & Sensory Garden Booking: karen.sheil@rspb.org.uk

 

Workshop Information

Never has Nature needed more for future generations to care and act.

We’ll share positive local biodiversity success stories to inspire.

We’ll help you support your young people:

· Carrying out simple biodiversity activities growing native seed, re-oak Ireland for red kites, hazel for red squirrels and jays, alder for otters, wildflowers from seed and even leaf, wildflower corners for rare pollinators, making homes for nature and our biggest challenge to help nature cope with climate change!

· Using fabulous apps to identify and monitor wildlife and real-world research projects to gather trends over years.

· With exciting new FREE awards which go towards Eco Schools – “Wild Challenge” for primary age with individual certificates and a Leadership Skills Foundation accredited “Environment Leaders Programme” for secondary age groups, gaining UCAS points!

RSPB’s Nature Positive Changemakers Programme is an experiential outdoor learning initiative with a strong community-focused approach. It aims to increase partnership work between primary and secondary schools, youth and community organisations through direct engagement with and upskilling of existing teachers and youth leaders.

Through this approach, RSPB will educate, up-skill and mobilise greater numbers of young people to help tackle our nature crisis; we will embed the principles of positive action at the early stages of a young person’s learning and development; and, through the cascade approach of upskilling existing and new leaders, we will see transformation of mass areas of development for nature.

Participants will be introduced to a range of engaging nature-based activities and will be provided with the necessary support and mentoring to develop and deliver practical nature-focussed sessions, within their own setting, with their respective pupils/youth groups.

Amid all the doom and gloom of climate change and environmental crisis, and to help counter eco anxiety, we share positive success stories of wildlife species in Northern Ireland, which RSPB is successfully helping to bring back from the brink of extinction.