Local school children discover the wildside of canals
18th Mar 2008
Local primary school pupils are discovering hidden habitats and creepy crawlies in the green spaces around our local canals and rivers when they attend British Waterways' education sessions this week.
The workshops, at Hillingdon Canal Clubhouse in Uxbridge, highlight the bio-diversity on our doorsteps around the Grand Union Canal, which provides an invaluable home to insects, birds and bats.
The children also have the opportunity to meet some creatures from further a-field, handling rainforest inhabitants including a treefrog, a snake, stick insects and cockroaches.
The groups from St Mary's, St Andrew's and Sacred Heart schools in Hillingdon as well as Longmead St. School in Heathrow round off the day with a boat trip along the Grand Union Canal where they can put their new-found environmental knowledge to the test as well as have a go at steering the boat and working the locks.
Elaine Stanley, British Waterways' learning services officer said: "As well as a wide range of leisure opportunities, rivers and canals offer vital green corridors across our cities. Days like these are an opportunity for local school children to enjoy and benefit from the natural resources in their communities while developing their knowledge of the natural world."
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