We organised an ASE Primary Science Teachmeet at Ness Botanic Gardens, Wirral on Thursday 20th May after school with Rose Froud, the Education Officer at Ness
We started off in the Coach House which is also a meeting room and classroom for school trips at the Gardens. The main focus of the Teachmeet was how to use the Gardens in the teaching of topics such as ‘Living Things and their habitats’ and ‘Evolution and Inheritance’. Anne and Kim gave a presentation about how they have used information gathered during school trips in their lessons. Nicky Bolton from Heswall Primary gave a talk called ‘The Last Words’, discussing how nature words are slipping from common usage and making suggestions to halt the ‘nature deficit disorder’ in some of today’s pupils! The teachers then went on a tour of the Gardens and Rose pointed out different areas that could be visited on a trip and how activities there could fit into the primary science curriculum.
About 17 teachers attended the event and we had a raffle with prizes provided by Twinkl, Augmentify It, Curiscope, Bloomsbury Books and goody bags from Ness Botanic Gardens.