Environmental Education

Four students wearing Silvermine Academy uniforms participating in an outdoor environmental field study. The students are standing by a pond, examining an educational guide and using a collection net to study the aquatic habitat.

Science Enrichment

An opportunity for students to engage with their surroundings using the latest conservation and scientific information available. These sessions are tailored to the school and their surrounding environment, in order to make learning meaningful and to create a lasting impact

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group of energetic school children posing outdoors in a sunny, grassy area. Many of the children are smiling and making peace signs with their hands, while one student stands on a wooden playground structure behind the group. The atmosphere is joyful and represents a school field trip activity.

School Field Trips

Our field trips offer an outdoor experience that will challenge the way students see and think about the world around them. We can tailor our field trips to suit the topic that you are wanting to cover, in a variety of fun, environmentally-themed programmes

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Educational infographic titled 'Red Tide, Algal Blooms and Bioluminescence.' The slide defines a red tide as a population explosion of approximately 20 million dinoflagellate cells per litre. It explains that bioluminescence is a chemical reaction in an organism's body. Key points include: the first fossil record of dinoflagellates is from the Silurian Period (over 420 million years ago); toxins from red tide accumulate in filter-feeding animals, causing mass fish die-offs; and alga blooms result from excess growth in polluted water. It notes that 'Noctiluca scintillans' (sea sparkle) is a bioluminescent dinoflagellate and that there are over 1,500 free-living marine species of dinoflagellates. The graphic includes the 'Guardians of the Deep' logo and a background photo of a bioluminescent coastline at night.

Teaching Resources

Our resources have been put together by a qualified teacher who understands the time constraints of the CAPS curriculum, and, indeed, most curriculums. They have been created with the view of being easily integrated into any existing curriculum, by enhancing the topics already being covered

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An educational board game worksheet featuring a pathway of lily pads numbered 1 through 15, themed around saving the Western Leopard Toad. The game includes several illustrated educational spaces: space 5 warns, 'Watch out for the car as you cross the road! Go back 2 spaces'; space 9 features a construction excavator with the text 'You need to find a new home'; space 11 shows a spray bottle with the message 'You fall ill from the pesticides'; and space 14 features a road sign for 'Leopard Toad Crossing' with the message, 'You are able to cross the road safely! Hop right to the END!'. The board starts with an illustration of a Western Leopard Toad.

Educational Games

Any teacher knows that children learn more when they are having fun! Our educational games and puzzles look at ways in which we as individuals can have a positive or negative impact on different species that share their living space with us

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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe”
~ John Muir