Squirrel Steps for Schools

 

‘Save our Squirrels’ launched in 2006, works across the North of England to conserve red squirrels and enable people to find out more about them. Seventeen red squirrel reserves have been set up to ensure a safe habitat for remaining populations of our native red squirrel.

Save our Squirrels would like to develop partnerships with schools in target areas around these reserves. We aim to educate children, using the Red Squirrel as a model, about sustainability, healthy eating, our environment, food miles and food packaging, to name but a few. To do this we will provide a raft of topic resources, some paper based, some IT and back these up with physical games for teachers to lead, presentations and field trips.

In return for all of this input we will have hundreds of keen eyes looking for and reporting squirrels, red or grey, to our website. We will learn from whole school communities, and families, where and when red squirrel populations have existed in the past. We will develop the network of people who are busy working to save our endangered red squirrel.

Please answer the following questions if you would consider being involved, and feel free to tick all boxes that apply to you: