WHAT IS THE..........
John Muir Award?
It is an environmental Award scheme based on wild places. It encourages you to enjoy the outdoors, get to know more about nature and wild places, and to do something to look after these places - John Muir Trust
Four Challenges & Three Levels
To achieve the John Muir Award at any level, you need to complete activities that involve the following four Challenges:
Discover a wild place
Explore its wildness
Conserve a wild place
Share your experiences
There are three progressive Levels of the John Muir Award:
Discovery Level
Explorer Level
Conserver Level
The same four Challenges are repeated for each level, with increased involvement in terms of time, responsibility and ownership.
The Four Challenges
Discover
- Fauna living on site - slugs/snails egg under logs and on apples
- Ancient woodland site - Park Mount
- Fungi - Jelly Ear/Lichen
- School grounds - overgrown raised beds
- Life of John Muir - Earth - Planet, Universe
Explore
- Trees - type, age and size
- Soil - acid/alkali experiment & testing ph level
- Storm Kettle - fire lighting skills
- OPAL Worm Survey
Conserve
- Improve Stag Beetle site
- Move bug hotel
- Move, reorganise log store
- Make bird feeders from windfall apples, sticks and seeds
- Feed sapling trees with compost from heap on site
- Weed/cut back raised beds and compost
Share
- Create a PowerPoint presentation to share with friends, teachers and parents.
Presentation
Discovery Level - Award Presentation
On the 13th February the children (sadly 2 were absent on the day) were presented with their well earnt Discovery Level Awards during the school assembly. This marked the end of our 10 week John Muir programme, during which the children had opportunities to explore, discover, conserve and share the wonders of the natural world in which we live.