What boosts wellbeing, develops green skills and helps nature? It must be the National Education Nature Park! The start of the new school year is the perfect time to get involved with the free curriculum-linked programme. Get involved: educationnaturepark.org.uk/?utm_source=tw… #EducationNaturePark

Joins us for our Annual Conference 5th Oct. Keynotes & a range of workshops all for £12.50 inc free entry to Black Country Museum Tickets selling fast book below to avoid disappointment eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-changing… Pls RT Historical Assoc Ben Walsh History Teacher Book Club Aaron Wilkes

Students returned to school to find fennel(Foeniculum vulgare), cosmos(Cosmos bipinnatus) & love-lies-bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus) blooming in the #FriendshipGarden: grown from RHS Campaign for School Gardening seed for the #RHSGrowWithIt project. 💚🌱🌸 #Schoolgardening #EducationNaturePark #Thrive

Pollinators enjoying the flowering ivy this week Bredon Hill Academy . 💚🐝

From engaging local schools and communities to planting new hedgerows and trees, a lot as been achieved so far in our #GreenFarm restoration project. Our new engagement officer, Yaz, poses the question- what does the next year hold? 👇 worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/monkwood-… The National Lottery Heritage Fund Midlands & East

The Potting Sheds The RHS RHS Learning RHSPressOffice Council for Learning Outside the Classroom #OutdoorEdChat Social Farms & Gardens School Farms Network GreenFingeredGeorge Natural History Museum Wow! Thanks for sharing 😍 You might find these videos helpful 👇 How to save amaranthus seed: youtube.com/shorts/D7CMtug… How to save cosmos seed: youtube.com/shorts/nhfWDsZ… How to save poppy seed: youtube.com/shorts/WuiHUdL…

This year’s #BigButterflyCount results are in and it’s not good news for nature 📰🦋 Overall, participants spotted just 7 butterflies on average per 15-minute Count, a reduction of almost 50% on last year’s average of 12, and the lowest in the 14-year history of the Count. 🧵

Calling children, teachers, #edutwitter –– we're running a river-themed Schools Poetry Competition for KS 2/3/4. I'm judging & I'd love to read scores of entries with a rich, wild range of river-voices. Please let others know; young poets, please enter! 👉literatureandlandscape.org/schools-poetry…

Pears harvested from our fruit trees transformed into delectable sweet pastries by the talented chefs in our school kitchen Bredon Hill Academy. 💚🌱🍐🥧

Today was the turn of our freshly-picked school pears to feature on the school lunch menu in some rather delicious turnovers!

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’