RSPB – Fetlar Primary

December 19, 2018December 19, 2018

Planting new trees

Today with the help of one of our ferrymen Pete we learned life skills and planted out lots of trees in the school grounds and in ‘Fetlar forest’. We tried different planting techniques ensuring the location and equipment were right before we laid them down. Pete showed us how to space out the saplings so the roots don’t compete with each other and grow well.

We have chosen Global Goal #15 as one of our main goals for our life on Fetlar and so helping to look after the land and plants on it is important to us.

Also as a rights respecting school it gives us a chance to apply Article 29 from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child which states that we have a right to take part in activities which help us be the best we can be.

Amazingly, while we were in Fetlar Forest we temporarily disturbed a long eared owl nesting in the conifer trees. We got a little clip of it flying above us. I hope you’re just as excited as us.

Thank you Sainsbury’s, Woodland Trust, Peoples Postcode lottery and Yorkshire Tea for funding this initiative.

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/plant-trees/free-trees/

https://www.yorkshiretea.co.uk/yorkshire-tree

https://www.about.sainsburys.co.uk/news/latest-news/2015/13-11-2015

May 24, 2018

Redd Up, Map-making and RSPB Scavenger Hunt 16th May 2018

We went for our May beach clean on 16th May to Tresta beach on Fetlar and filled up 3 bags of rubbish. We had been in April and filled up 5 bags.

When we finished we met up with Martha from the RSPB and she gave us a scavenger hunt to complete with pictures of items (natural and man made) which we might find on the beach. We had to find the item and note the location to put on a map afterwards. When we brought everything back we discussed what each one was and the impact on the environment. Some was good (mainly natural) and some not so good (marine litter). We have been linking the impact of marine litter to Global Goal #14 Life Below the Water at school.

Afterwards we marked the items on the map we had made.

June 2, 2017

Red Necked Phalenropes

Patrick invited us to come and see the Red Necked Phalenropes as they were returning to Fetlar.

They are a rare breeding bird in the UK and weigh about the same as an apple.

The male birds raise the chicks.

The RSPB protects the breeding grounds and Malcie discovered they spend winter in the Pacific!

Because they are so small it was hard to get a photo with our camera, but Patrick brought scopes so we could see them.

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016

Loch of Funzie RSPB

So we went with Patrick, a RSPB warden. He took us to see a Snipe. I thought it souned like a virtual sheep but the others thought it souned like a sheep mixed with a duck. We did this on Friday the 13th of May. It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun. We did see a snipe they are small but not to small. They live in wet areas with lage tussocks of grass. We took a picture on a stone bird. Can you please click these…

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Starlings