Fourth Year Of School Activities Begins
Education workers from the Wear Rivers Trust have begun to deliver our fourth year of school activities. The SuDS+ project works with six Primary Schools in our Study Area. They are Bloemfontein Primary School, Burnside Primary School, East Stanley Primary School, Greenland Primary School, South Stanley Juniors, St Mary’s Catholic Primary School. Stanley The Raindrop is visiting schools with the team raising awareness of the project. Sessions in schools link with the national curriculum for geography and the river topic for years 4 and 5.
Work within the schools is a mix of Wear Rivers Trust staff delivering practical mostly outdoor sessions on river safety, features of rivers and creating your own sustainable drainage. Riverfly have also been brought into classrooms giving pupils the chance to see the invertebrates up close and identify the different types.
A team from the Environment Agency look at what to do if there is a flood and have a SuDS house which has some surfaces which stop water penetrating and same which allow it to drain through.
Durham County Council Civic Pride have also been involved this year leading on an Enviro crime session with the children focusing on littering, dog fouling and fly tipping.
Stanley The Raindrop coming soon to a Primary School near you.
