We recently partnered with the Sustainable Seas Trust, to provide the Eco-Club of the Crags Primary school with a wonderful opportunity of exploring the rocky shores through the lens. The Sustainable Seas Trust (SST) is a Not For Profit organisation that has offices in Grahamstown, Port St Francis Bay and Kenton on Sea. They operate exclusively for charitable, socio-economic, educational and philanthropic purposes. The SST creates educational programs through production film, posters and educational booklets and student volunteers. They approached us for collaboration on one of our environmental education programs, the Rocky Shores outdoor classroom.
NVT team and Meghan from SST introducing the Photo-Edu Walk to the learners.
The learners had an out of this world experience, while exploring rocky shores through the lens of a camera. The main focus of this exercise was for the learners to take pictures, of all living and non-living organism that are found within the rocky shore. The SST supplied the learners with cameras in order for these learners to take pictures of everything they thought was interesting and eye catching. The excitement on the learners faces when they were told they would be using a digital camera themselves to take pictures is unexplainable, because for most of these learners it was the first time they had an opportunity to handle a camera and take pictures. This was a fun day indeed!
Eco-club exploring the rocky shores!
We used our ‘Exploring the Rocky Shores’ lesson plan and booklet for the afternoon. This booklet prepares the learners to have a broader understanding of the Rocky Shores. Using this booklet the learners are taught and tested about all the different animals and plants that are found within the rocky shores. This enabled learners to take pictures of animals they can clearly identify, and to understand and enjoy this wonderful experience fully.
One of the Crags Primary learners loving the view
This was a wonderful experience for the learners – they can’t stop talking about the day, and it has made them excited about marine conservation. These Grade 7 learners are this year’s new members of the Eco club and we are looking forward to having many of these exciting programs with them during the year.
Cindy-Lee, our EE Director, exploring life in the rocky shores with the learners.
And a big thank you to Sustainable Seas Trust for their partnership – we are looking forward for more collaboration on wonderful programs such as these!
Yanga admiring a White-breasted Cormorant chilling on the rocks
The beauty of the rocky shores!