University News Last updated 09 December 2013
Our second-year trainee teachers have been helping to make learning fun for youngsters by creating homes for wildlife with pupils at City Road Primary Academy, using expertise they gained from an urban wildlife training session with animal welfare charity the RSPCA.
Students studying BA (Hons) Primary Education with QTS with enhancements in Geography and Design and Technology enjoyed a training session about urban wildlife with Paul Cockcroft from the RSPCA, who spent a day teaching them how to make feeders, bird boxes and bug hotels.
The trainees then took this knowledge into the Year 5 classroom of the University’s sponsored academy school, City Road Primary Academy, providing our students with valuable school experience in addition to their placements. They spent the afternoon making wildlife homes with the children to enhance the academy’s outdoor play area.