River Skell Project
25 Sep 2021
Children from class 4 will be going to Fountains Abbey on Thursday 30th September to continue with a project which was started 2 years ago. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to take part with experienced staff.
The point of this project is to monitor the wildlife which inhabits the upper River Skell (focused at where it passes through Fountains Abbey) The children will be river dipping and collecting data on what lives there which will form a base line to notice improvements when we do it again in the summer to see if there are improvements.
The project is lottery funded and is to clean up the river Skell which is suffering with discolouration and chemical run off from farms.
This will also support our upcoming science project 'Living things in their environment' which will begin after the half term.
Also we'll be exploring Fountains Abbey and the links it shares with Henry the 8th to develop our Tudors topic.
Children MUST wear wellies - if they don't they can not go in the water. The children will be with two staff members from the project plus one member of our staff in the shallows of the river. (It will be a carousel so one group doing that whilst the others are with me doing Tudors)
They can wear home clothes which they are not precious about and will need a packed lunch.
The Skell Valley would like to use pictures from the day on their social media site so can anyone opt out of this if they don't want that to happen.
The bus will leave school at 9:45 and will arrive back for 2:45
-Consent - Particular visit Fountains Abbey.doc-