Community Pollinator Fund
The West of England Community Authority wants to increase the abundance of wildlife by 30% by 2030. We help schools contribute through a rich and rewarding project.
Enhancing Biodiversity
We are helping enhance the biodiversity in schools by improving on and adding new Wildflower Meadow and developing other pollinator friendly habitats.
Empowering School Communities
Students help seed and look after Wildflower Meadows, increasing their connection with nature and their sense of care. Teachers receive are trained with effective ideas to use the new space for wellbeing and curricular teaching.
Creating a Wildflower Meadow
Preparing good ground We will visit your school site to discuss what will work best for your space and school community – it will be great to hear from…
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Eco-Education
A key part of the work we do is to build in learning that supports your students’ curiosity and existing knowledge to help them further engage in creating and…
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Teaching Support
We offer bespoke online or onsite training sessions to give your staff ideas and the best possible foundation for how to use your Wildflower Meadow with students and staff….
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How to look after your Wildflower Meadow Habitats
Great – so you would like some more information about how to look after your wildflower meadow. Here you can find details for the different habitats that students in…
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This year the West of England Combined Authority are adding 10 sites to Avon Schools Nature Reserve through funding made available by the Community Pollinator Fund.
Funding enables us to:
Creating Habitats
Students create a new Wildflower Meadow alongside other habitats
Wrap around Learning
Wrap around learning engages students on many levels
Teacher Skills
Training for rich use of the wildflower site
Where are the pollinator friendly schools in our club?
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Latest News
Wildflowers Bloom at Cathedral Schools Trust
We have taken a mid-summer peek at the developing wildflower meadow on the playing fields of the Cathedral Schools Trust. The seedlings that we saw in June have developed in to a beautiful carpet of varied plants…
Read MoreSeedlings Develop at Cathedral School Site
With primary aged Forest School school children and a small group of year sevens from the secondary school having completed the sowing of 4kg wildflower seed, we waited to see how the weather would help germination and…
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Meadow ready for sowing at Cathedral Schools Trust Playing Fields
Over the last few weeks, Nature Connection CIC staff, alongside an energetic group of year 7s, have prepared the ground for a massive 650 square metre Wildflower Meadow and Outdoor Wellbeing/Learning Space at the Failand playing fields…
Read MoreAshton Park School
Back in March a group of dedicated parents came together on a cool Saturday morning to tackle a new space in the well-being garden that they had been working on (first project had been to open up…
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Seedlings are developing nicely
It has been a few weeks, firstly of rain and then sun! The wildflower seed has germinated and the seedlings have survived the drought of half term. Credit is due to the children of Avonmouth Primary who…
Read MoreSeed is in the Ground at Avonmouth Primary!
The staff and students of Avonmouth Primary had a fantastic day creating their Wildflower Meadow Habitat today. The day started with an assembly all about how they would create their wildflower meadow habitat including some amazing facts…
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ASNR.club is a network of students, staff and schools with Wildflower Meadows and other pollinator friendly habitats installed by Nature Connection CiC