Activity 5 – ON RESERVE

There’s nothing like direct contact with nature to get children to love and respect it. BirdLife offers you this experience at Ghadira nature reserve, a wetland oasis which hosts wild birds and other local wildlife that changes with the seasons.

• Call BirdLife to book your class for a visit. Do this well in advance as the nature reserve is popular with schools and days rapidly fill up.
  

• Before your visit, make sure that the class is aware that the outing will be an educational experience, not a picnic. Remember that most children associate the name "Ghadira" with beach and splashing about. So please see that your group is in the right frame of mind - it is important to avoid disturbance at the nature reserve. Ghadira is first and foremost a refuge for nature, a home for many forms of Maltese wildlife, not least eight species of breeding birds.
  

• Encourage the children to take along camera and binoculars if they have any, plus notebook. Do use this activity to get the kids to join BirdLife’s junior club

• Send in your Feedback Form. Photographs are not required for proof, but we’d love to receive some just the same - we could use them in future publications.
  

• As follow up to your visit, create a chart or leaflet about your experience at the reserve. More details were mailed to your school earlier in October. Please ask your Head or the BirdLife delegate in your school.
  

Points...

visit = 100 points

project = 25 points