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One of the first schools projects Tyne Rivers Trust undertook was in the North Tyneside area of the catchment where we introduced the Brown Trout book and issues of river pollution to teachers and pupils.
If you would like to work with this book in your school please contact us for details. Special thanks to Shirley Hallam and Linda Benneworth for this project.
Malcolm Newson, our Director, pioneered another way to work with school groups through the Creative Partnerships project at Newbrough CofE First School. He worked with children from Yr3 and Yr4 on a variety of design technology tasks, modelling river landscape and exploring the hydrological cycle to build a river in the school grounds. The project also included a visit to some real flood risk alleviation works on the South Tyne.
Following the success of this project Tyne Rivers Trust have developed a one day 'River Doctors' education experience for primary schools. It is a much condensed version of the 6 week project but offers the same cross-curricular activities such as developing river vocabulary, measuring flow and volume, using invertebrates to assess the health of the river, modelling all stretches of a river system and local/global considerations such as flood risk and climate change.
In 2011 6th form students completed a term of work experience with River Watch Manager, Dr. Ceri Gibson. The students learnt about the water cycle and river dynamics along with actively contributing to the objectives of the Trust to manage and improve the Tyne Catchment. The students compiled their own portfolio of work for this project. To find out more about how the project was put together and the experiences of the students please click here to read the project report.
Tyne Rivers Trust is also able to support GCSE and A level course work relating to the Tyne Catchment and our real project work. We have recently engaged in a project with the North Pennines AONB to help deliver one day as part of their CELL (Changing Environment - Living Landscapes) programme for A level and GCSE students. This work took place at Whitesykes mine adit on the Garrigill Burn. Students were given a full briefing on the history of the site and the types of monitoring they were going to carry out. They successfully completed risk assessment and environmental impact assessment activities and collected invertebrate, water quality and heavy metal contamination measurement which fulfilled their curriculum requirements and will be used by TRT towards assessing the mine site and determining how best to manage the metal load.
If you or your school are interested in Tyne Rivers Trust helping to deliver cross-curricular river-based learning please download our Education Brochure (1MB) and/or get in touch.
Contact Malcolm Newson on 01434 611809 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Some general teaching resources and downloads on rivers, the water cycle and biodiversity are available from the Association of Rivers Trusts.
In the future we hope to secure sufficient funds for a dedicated Education Officer, if you are interested in supporting this please This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
