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Barry Comprehensive School's Design Technology students recently returned to Aberthaw Power Station to continue their work on the conservation programme.

The aim of the programme is to improve and maintain an area of woodland at the site to further encourage wildlife into the area. The school has been supporting the programme for three years, with students constructing and installing a range of nest boxes and insect towers at the site. This year saw the installation of a further 20 nest boxes, 20 insect towers a hedgehog house all of which were constructed by the students as part of their Design Technology classwork.

The conservation area is a well used local resource. Whilst at the site, students met with pupils from Llancarfen and St Brides Major Primary Schools, as well as visitors from Dow Corning and the Environment Agency.

A survey of last years nest boxes revealed that the majority had been used and one was still occupied by a field mouse that made its daring escape by running up the arm of the pupil that opened the box!

Photos:

1. Arriving at the picturesque site
2. Finding a suitable place for the hedgehog house
3. Installing one of the twenty new bird boxes

Arriving at the picturesque site

Finding a suitable place for the hedgehog house

Installing one of the twenty new bird boxes

AC 2008-11-01