Nature Days provides weekly Forest School sessions for Knelston Primary School children within the school’s grounds. This service is available to other local schools in their own grounds or by visiting a local woodland on Gower.

Bring the Celts to life in your own school grounds. The students will design, plan and find the resources to build their own model of a Celtic roundhouse. Using authentic material and techniques they will weave the wattle and daub walls and create a defended water tight dwelling, painted with Celtic designs.

A number of habitats are visited, bog, woodland, reedbed and pond. The plants and animals found within each are studied and their adaptations to life in each habitat explored, also an introduction to food chains and food webs, adaptation, competition and predation is included.

A number of ready made activties for any year group to take part in a number of loctions on Gower. Orienteering,team building games, Knight adventure, fossil hunting, environmental art and crafts, nature awareness walks, exploring churches.

Students will explore the harsh conditions found on an exposed rocky shore and role play how animals cope with them. Discover the erosional landscape features of a coastal environment and how they are created.

This field trip involves the students undertaking data collection which provides the background details for a debate on alternative energy generation and its impact on the environment.

This unique field trip looks at the way Ryer’s Down has been utilised through the last five thousand years. A truly innovative day includes the reconstruction of a full sized medieval longhouse so that the students can picture what the site looked like eight hundred years ago.

Port Eynon is a very popular Gower seaside village which has been created by years of tourists and visitors. The field trip will involve analysing the plants on the sand dunes and where they have come from. Should they be their or are they threatening the natural plant diversity.

Microclimate survey to investigate the impact on the climate that man made features have. Investigate mobile phone reception and abiotic data collection to analysis the environment and suggest sites for renewable energy production.

CBD study – Defining a settlement.
Land use survey – cross section through an urban area.
CBD study and comparison with out of town retail locations.
Urban fringe and rural area study. Urban regeneration.
Village study – Changing villages survey. Exclusion and rebranding. Inequality and Clone towns.