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It looks like the weather might finally be improving, there are leaves on the trees, flowers are in bloom and birds are singing. Nature is thriving all around us! Our latest Wildsquare survey 'Start of the Summer' is open for your results now and is a perfect opportunity to get outside and...

The Department for Education is currently consulting on a new national curriculum for England – you can find lots more information here , including how to respond to the proposals (by 16 April). The RSPB is preparing a written response to the review, as well as coordinating a partnership response...

Mygrove is The Prince of Wales’s online gardening competition for children. Based upon the principles of The Prince’s own gardens at Highgrove, school children are being encouraged to start their own Mygrove blog reporting about their own gardening efforts. Whether it’s a window box...

Well, what a great Big Schools' Birdwatch it's been! Our deadline for results has now passed, thanks to everyone who has submitted them, we can't wait to see how birds are doing in schools across the UK this year, and the results will be announced before the Easter Holidays! I need to...

The children at Boughton and Dunkirk primary school found the RSPB bird watching day fun, educational and exciting, with lots of new birds being spotted around the grounds. As a school, the bird that was spotted the most was the blackbird. All the children involved saw a variety of birds and recorded...

Many thanks to our guest blogger Colette Cotton from St Mary's Church of England Primary School , Folkestone. Colette has been doing the Big Schools' Birdwatch as part of a larger ' World Birdwatch ' scheme that she runs in school, enabling links with schools across the globe. You can...

Thank you to everyone who has done their Big Schools' Birdwatch over the last two weeks! Don't worry if you've been delayed doing yours because of the snow, that's OK as you have until the 17 Feb to submit your results. If you haven't submitted your results yet, then you can do...

It's the start of the second week of the Big Schools' Birdwatch , and here's ten good reasons for you still to take part... You can request your fabulous free resource pack right up until the 01 February The snow has (mostly) all gone, so this will hopefully encourage more birds...

Guest blog written by Suzanne Welch, RSPB Interim Head of Youth and Education, discussing why we need to nurture a love of nature in children. I am a firm believer in the need for a greater understanding, a greater agreement and greater action around the essential part we as adults play during the...

Many thanks to our first guest blogger Colette Cotton from St Mary's Church of England Primary School , Folkestone. Colette has been doing the Big Schools' Birdwatch as part of a larger ' World Birdwatch ' scheme that she runs in school, enabling links with schools across the globe. You...

Big Schools Birdwatch is now well underway, but if you feel that you need a bit more help getting prepared for your birdwatch, why not have a look at these video quizzes that we’ve prepared to test your bird knowledge. The videos were created with the involvement of a local school and one of...

We really want to encourage more secondary schools to take part this year so here's some ideas for what you could do with your students in addition to the main activity. Don't forget that you can download our resource pack for secondary students, for free, here . Design and make bird cake...

The Big School's Birdwatch pack is aimed at primary pupils aged between 6 and 11 years, it can be requested via the 'register now' button on the Big Schools' Birdwatch website . As well as the teachers notes containing all the info you need to participate, the pack itself contains an...

There's still time to request your FREE resource pack for the upcoming Big Schools' Birdwatch, the event starts on 21 Jan and runs for two weeks, so it's up to you when you take part. If you've never heard of the Birdwatch before, then to put it simply, it's a great practical activity...

A guest blog by John Kneale-Jones who is currently trialling the pilot programme for young people. John is based at Witherslack Hall School in south Cumbria and has been instrumental in the development of the programme in partnership with the RSPB. He is now working closely with RSPB Leighton Moss where...

This is a simple activity you can do with your class in preparation for Big Schools Birdwatch, or whenever you want to give your garden birds a little treat. They look lovely hanging from ribbon in the garden. You will need: One orange (one orange makes two feeders) Bird seed Lard,...

Our great resource packs for the Big Schools Birdwatch 2013 are available now, and if you have already registered there will be one winging its way to you in the post. The Big Schools' Birdwatch is a great activity to enable the young people in your school or group to step up for nature . The...

The new Wildsquare survey runs until the 31 st December and is called ‘Preparing for winter’. It's an ideal activity to participate in with your children, class or group and y ou can do the survey wherever you like - in a garden, park, playground or out on a walk with your family. ...

Take a look around, how many teenagers do you see on our reserves (or anywhere else for that matter) actively involved in wildlife? Well we need more, many many more so we are launching our new field based training programme aimed at teenagers this autumn with a pilot programme running in Cumbria. A...

Here in the youth and ed department we're trying to work out what we can do better to help people like you to help children explore nature. What do you need to help you with this important task? More lesson plans, ideas for games and outdoor activites, video clips? We're running a short...

Attention all Londoners! Did you take part in Big Schools' Birdwatch this year? Do you fancy doing something similar to help our dwindling house sparrows? A bit of background In the summer of 2002 we launched the ‘Where have all the sparrows gone’ survey, which asked Londoners to...

Earlier this week , Ofsted confirmed it will be changing school inspections in England. This follows the move in January this year to focus inspections on just four key areas: the achievement of pupils; the quality of teaching; the quality of leadership in and management of the school; and the behaviour...

An amazing 2600+ schools have been Stepping Up for Nature with us over the past year! To recognise this fantastic effort we'll be sending these schools a special pack in the post this week, containing a certificate and more information about how they've been Stepping Up. There are a total...

We have recently become content partners on the Times Education (TES) website - which means we can upload and share our resources directly with the 1.8 million teachers that search their resource database. This is a fantastic scheme which gives us some great promotion whilst at the same time showing...

Glasgow’s remarkable wildlife will be the centre of attention next Sunday (February 19) as The Urban Birder, David Lindo, pays the city a rare visit. As well as urban birding, David’s talk will also look at urban conservation issues and what can be done to help our city birds. His book, The...