Event Highlights W O


e hosted another very informative evening talk in May. Neil Middleton of Echoes Ecology gave a presentation on bats and his enthusiasm for his subject was obvious


to the audience.


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ver the spring months prior to the summer school holiday break, a total of 14 separate school groups enjoyed Curriculum for Excellence activities with our Activity


Ranger. Schools involved included Braidbar, Busby, Crookfur, and Netherlee Primaries, St Luke’s and Williamwood High Schools.


ver 70 people attended our BioBlitz event in the Pavilion Visitor Centre in June. A bioblitz is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living things within Rouken Glen Park. We hosted a range of conservation organisations including Butterfly Conservation, TCV (The Conservation Volunteers), Frog Life and Clyde Amphibian and Reptile Group who all offered family activities.


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ast Renfrewshire’s Adult Learning Team has been working in partnership with the Rouken Glen Park Activities Staff to organise Family English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) events this summer.


The woods provided a fantastic base for the groups to take part in the fun activities. Parents and children from Japan, South Korea, France, Hong Kong and Scotland, worked together on their bushcraft skills, making shelters out of natural materials. They then enjoyed hot chocolate using a Kelly Kettle. Team activities prompted the families to communicate in English whilst having fun and getting to know new people. We’ve also had two Ramadan Clubs in the Park in early July. They took part in woodland games and activities such as sensory activities designed to help children explore their environment.


ur Riverbeast Explorer activity at the end of June was very popular and fully booked with enthusiastic families wanting to learn more about the minibeasts to be found in the Auldhouse Burn in the glen.


Rouken Glen Volunteers


ur wildlife garden continues to develop thanks to our two additional needs volunteer groups including individuals from Quarriers, Thornliebank and Barrhead


Resource Centres and Cosgrove Care. They have been preparing flowers beds, weeding and pruning trees.


Also Dates-n-Mates - a charity that helps individuals with Additional Support Needs to meet socially, planted trees in the wildlife garden as part of their John Muir Award environmental scheme.


Staff from McDonald’s Restaurant in Thornliebank took part in a corporate volunteer day. Branch Manager Jim McLean commented, “Fantastic experience which was well organised and delivered in a very efficient and friendly way. Very enjoyable and the team really felt that they had made a contribution.”


We are looking for more volunteers to help us. If you are interested, please contact Katy, Activity Ranger on 0141-638 4121.


In addition, pupils from the Isobel Mair School holiday programme got involved in environmental arts, crafts and sensory activities, such as making clay monsters out of natural woodland materials.


If your school or community group would like to take part in Activities at Rouken Glen Park, please contact Katy, Activity Ranger on 0141-638 4121.


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