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Junior Conservancy
Looking at boats
Junior Conservancy is all about finding out more about Chichester Harbour and how we, at the Conservancy, work to look after it. Under the National Curriculum this fits into the theme of Citizenship whereby young people should have the chance to find out more about how their local area is managed, who makes the decisions and to develop an understanding of other people’s viewpoints.
Junior Conservancy Days are designed and run by the Chichester Harbour Education team. Support from The Heritage Lottery Fund allows us to offer this special day of activities to local schools without any charge to participating pupils! We have carried out two of the three years’ funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund and will hold the final lottery funded Junior Conservancy days in 2006.
On these days, the pupils join the education team in the classroom at Dell Quay. In the morning we think about people and nature in the harbour and the role of the Conservancy through a variety of activities designed to be just as much fun as learning.
In the council chamber
A typical list of activities is:
- Water Matters (looking at tide and water movement)
- Treasure Hunt (solving harbour clues to find the treasure)
- Mud Hunt (investigating life in the mud)
- Boat Wrecks (viewing old boats nearby and then creating a model)
- Clay Modelling (based on harbour birds)
- Each young person gets to do two of these.
During lunch break volunteers put their names in the hat to find the chairperson for the afternoon’s activity. They then go to County Hall by coach to visit the County Meeting Chamber where they carry out a mock meeting making decisions on issues in the harbour just as the Conservancy committees would do. They even have the real secretary to the Committees overseeing the meeting!
Clay birds
This is the key activity of the day and one where the Conservancy are proud to offer local pupils the experience of working with local government in a real meeting chamber in County Hall.
Then they go back to the coach to finish the day at Dell Quay. Clay work and model wrecks can be taken home. Pupils are asked to fill in an evaluation form. The conservancy is delighted, and proud, that 95% of the pupils have rated the day ‘really enjoyable’!
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