Our Leighton Moss Wildlife Explorers Club is a great way to find out more about all that crawls, flutters, and even slithers! Games, wild days out and more. Why not join in the fun.

Do you have what it takes to be part of a 17th century cannon crew – finding and hitting a target with a tennis ball, fired from a Tudor mortar, using only mathematics? Would you like to work for NASA in Mission Control, being responsible for reading the telemetry from a rocket during its journey through Earth’s atmosphere? Can you work in a team under pressure?

Humps, Bumps, Bits and Bodies - Just a few bits of the puzzle that can start to tell the shadowy story of our buried past. Join this course and find out how archaeologists look for, recover and make sense of clues about the past: mysterious humps and bumps in the landscape; surviving bits of buildings and objects; the remains of human bodies. As well as hands-on work with artefacts and other primary evidence, we will venture out on our own journey into the historic landscape, researching and exploring the ancient Quantock Hills, and learning to ‘read’ the evidence for ourselves. “From our fieldwork we have learnt LOTS about archaeology. It’s not just about digging, but much much more!”

Internet Notwerk - Everyone uses the Internet, unless you live under a rock or something. But how does it actually work? Do you know how many clever tricks are all piled on top of one another to create the Internet that you use? Come and explore the behind-the-scenes technologies that make the Internet actually work. You don’t need to be a techie or a nerd but you’ll definitely need to be prepared to get hands-on because the best way for us to learn how the Internet works is to build our own one: in a room, in a day. If we’re lucky it might even work! Fair Maids and Foul Fiends - Experience the tension and trauma of the Victorians’ favourite theatre. You will be cunning villains, silly sidekicks, heroes and heroines. We’ll meet the characters, write the lines, and act out the scenes with heavy sighs, tearful farewells, and swashbuckling bellows. Spend a day immersed in the wonderful spectacle of Victorian melodrama, a form of theatre that is closely linked with pantomime and twice as much fun! We’ll make a (melo)drama out of a crisis! The Borrowers’ Box Room - For the budding grand designer! Have you ever wanted to design your own bedroom or redecorate your home. Well now’s your chance to put your design skills to the test and do just that! Only smaller, and without your parents’ veto! We’ll spend the day designing and making miniature rooms – everything from doors and windows to cushions and curtains, staircases, gardens, driveways and everything in between. I'll have everything you’ll need so just make sure you bring your imagination along – feel free to bring any extra materials (fabric, craft matériel, boxes) you have lying around to put your own touch on what we make as well as recycling back-of-the-wardrobe stuff! There’s no ‘I’ in team but there is in win! - There is almost no way in this world that you’ll make it through your education, let alone your working life, without working and competing in teams. But how do you fit into a team – what are your special skills and how do you complement everyone else? Spend a day discovering your aptitudes for different rôles in a team while carrying out lots of high pressure challenges. Eventually one individual will emerge victorious, and to him or her will come… well, nothing really… what do you think this is? A TV show? Making it happen! - Ideas, initiatives, inventions – everyone has them but how do you make them come to reality? In one way or another everything is a project. We all know what we want, we know or find out how to get it, and if we do it right we get what we want. This is where project management comes in, from the smallest personal projects to the largest government projects; they are only successful if planned. So bring your creative and inspirational minds to the table, and we’ll work out how to make it happen! Physical Theatre - We’ll start by looking at different types of physical comedy/theatre including mime and mask work. Then we’ll concentrate on developing and manipulating physical characters as well as prop work and improvisation before progressing on to slapstick techniques. The day will end with the creation of a slapstick-based piece of physical theatre.

This week, we are delighted to welcome Beekeeper Graham Royle who will be doing a session all about bees - including bringing some of his bees to show us. For the younger ones, Andrea Davies will also be joining us to do some bee-related crafts whilst Graham is giving a presentation to the older children.