Home Educators Day: Green Careers (Sold Out)

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Discover the people and skills behind our wetlands through a day of hands-on workshops and activities.

What could your future career look like? Get a taste of some of the different roles at WWT, from caring for wildlife and surveying birds to creating enrichment for our otters. There’s something for the whole family to enjoy, with opportunities to get stuck in, learn new skills and discover the many ways you can work with nature.

Line up:

• Be a Citizen Scientist: Help collect wildlife data and discover how everyday observations can contribute to real scientific research. (All Day)
  
• Wildlife Artist: Take a closer look at wildlife specimens and practise the art of scientific drawing, with activities for different ages and abilities. (10:00 to 16:00, drop in)
  
• Build a Home for Wildlife: Choose a species to protect and design the perfect nature reserve for it using natural materials, craft supplies and your imagination. (10:00 to 16:00, drop in)
• Become a Wildlife Vet: Carry out a health check on a goose, from weighing and measuring to checking its feet and leg ring. (10:30 to 11:00 and 13:30 to 14:00 - LIMITED SPACES, SIGN UP in H2O Foyer)
• Make Otter Enrichment: Get creative and make enrichment for our otters and then watch a keeper gift it to them. (10:15 to 10:45 and 13:15 to 13:45 for the 11:00 and 14:00 feeds)
• Become a Reserve Warden: Join a guided walk to discover the wildlife living at the Wetland Centre and practise your species identification skills. (11:15 to 11:45)
• Become a Facilitator: Get hands-on with wildlife specimens, discover fascinating facts and then teach your friends and family what you’ve learnt. (12:00 to 12:30)
• Build it, fix it!: Meet our maintenance team and learn to use tools to create your own planter to take home. Add soil and seeds and watch your plant flourish at home. (12:45 to 13:15 - LIMITED SPACES, SIGN UP in H2O Foyer)
• Design our Next Poster: Join our marketing team and become a designer for the day! Create your own poster, with the chance to see your design displayed around the centre and online. (13:30 to 14:00)
• Bring Nature to Life: Get creative with stories, props and wildlife facts in this hands-on workshop with our engagement team. (14:15 to 14:45)
• Run the Wetland Centre: Meet our General Manager and discover how all the different teams and careers work together to run the Wetland Centre. (15:00 to 15:30)
• Wildlife Keeper for the Day: Step into the shoes of a keeper and discover how we care for our ducks, pelicans and other wetland wildlife. (15:30 to 16:00)

All activities are free and included in your ticket. Pop along and join whatever session takes your fancy! Some activities have limited spaces, sign up upon arrival.   

We are delighted to offer discounted entry to this event as detailed below: 

• Junior: £9.35
• Adults go free 
• Under 4s go free
• Members must book a paid ticket for each junior attending, and a free adult ticket for each member adult attending.

Please note under 18s must be supervised by an adult at all times. 

Wristbands will be provided to access the activities that happen once the centre is open to the public from 10.00am.

Please click here for accessibility information, including parking information and our Access Guide.

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