School grounds

 

Discuss

Are our school grounds a safe haven for animals or a no-go area?

Conduct a survey

What animals live in/visit our school grounds?

• What animals can we see?
• What evidence is there that animals visit our school grounds?
• Are there some areas that might be dangerous for animals to live in or visit?
• Are there places where animals can escape human attention if they need to?

Find out

What can we do to make our grounds more animal-friendly?

• What are the benefits and issues of attracting animals to the school grounds?
• What are the options for improving the situation?
• How do we ensure that we choose long-term solutions?
• How much time, space and money will we need?
• Who could help us with these improvements?

Take action

Making our school grounds more animal-friendly

• How will we organise this?
• How will we make everyone aware of what our plans are?
• How can we encourage people to help?
• How will we ensure that everyone taking part is safe?
• Do we need to seek permission for some of our ideas?
• How will we know whether our ideas have been successful?

Review

How animal-friendly are our school grounds now?

• What is working well?
• What would we do differently?
• Is there anything else we need to do?
• Do we need to review the situation at regular intervals, e.g. every six months?

Download a PDF information sheet of these ideas from the Information sheets tab at the top right of the page.