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Visit our working arable farm to learn about food production and sustainable farming methods to help our farmland wildlife. Find different habitats and understand the effects of breaching the sea wall and the salt marsh created.

Adapted for KS1-4:

FARMING AND WILDLIFE...

Learn how Essex Wildlife Trust farms a range of arable crops for the benefit of people and wildlife. Understand the pioneering coastal realignment project, where the seawall has been breached to create a valuable saltmarsh habitat.

Course Content: 

Our Education Centre at Magor Marsh is able to cater for groups of up to 32 children and for a variety of age ranges from pre-school and beyond, including teacher training days at all times of year! All our activities have been designed specifically for schools by qualified teachers and a teacher and forest school leader is available at the centre to discuss your individual requirements.

Fingringhoe Wick is one of the county’s top wildlife sites. Uncover the secrets of woodlands, meadows, ponds, heathland and the Colne Estuary. Our varied hands-on Environmental Education programme caters to all ages, from bug hunts for the early years to vegetation sampling for secondary pupils. 

EYFS: 

Exploring Senses, Pond Power, Go on a Bug Hunt, Teddy Bears Picnic, Natural Art

Key Stage 1:

Four Seasons in One Day, Where the Wild Things Are, Living Things and their Habitats, Rocks and Soils, Plant Power

Visit the home of the famous literary Brontë sisters - Emily, Charlotte and Anne. The parsonage in which they grew up and wrote countless works in the 19th Century is beautifully preserved. Most famously the Dining Room where works such as Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Agnes Grey were written is just as the sisters would have known it. It was the sisters' habit to walk around the table until about eleven o'clock, reading and discussing their writing plans and projects.