BHP Billiton NiW Sponsored
Activity days at Baldivis Children's Forest
2011 School Activity days are now fully booked - get ready for 2012
2011 Schools education program at the forest
2011 Excursion Policy
Broadcast Engineering &
Services Report, July 2009
BHP Billiton Nickel West began sponsoring activity days in 2006
which included subsidizing the cost for students when they visited the
Forest. This sponsorship has continued and has expanded to enable more students
from many different schools to experience activity days at the Forest (Table
1).
Table 1. Involvement of schools and community in activities at Baldivis
Children’s Forest 2005-2010.
In 2010, activity days began in Term 2 and due to popular demand
were also held in term 3 and term 4. During the activity days participants weeded and planted a record
4,387 native seedlings, listened to fire safety talks (Singleton Volunteer
Fire Brigade), studied fungi, soils, frogs, wetlands, Australian animals,
bats, sorted macro-invertebrates, aged and mapped tuart trees in BCF,
collected seed, created clay creatures to live in the bushland, went on a
great dinosaur dig to identify bones, listened to Aboriginal cultural stories and
explored the forest with a guide, studied insects in different habitats,
looked at the Forest under a microscope and created a sensory obstacle
course.
Participating schools and clubs in 2011 included;
Baldivis Primary School
Blue Gum Montessori
Byford John Calvin Primary School
Calista Primary School
Frederick Irwin Anglican School
Mandurah Senior College
Makybe Rise Primary School
Rockingham Lakes Primary School
Rossmoyne Primary School
Secret Harbour Primary School
Tranby College
Waikiki Primary School
Woodlands Primary School
