by PKDofE | Mar 22, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News, Skills Development, The Starfish Way
On Monday we enjoyed helping out at Auchingarrich Wildlife Centre for the volunteering section of the DofE certificate. We did some fantastic activities – feeding lambs (they were so adorable) and painting, which will be in the park and gift shop once it’s...
by PKDofE | Feb 24, 2023 | Duke of Edinburgh's Award, News, The Starfish Way
The open group have been up Kinnoull hill, walking with purpose and litter picking. We also tried geocaching, which was lead by assistant Will. Will did a great job and the group found 2 boxes, leaving a gift of Lego behind . Are you interested in Geocaching? Why not...
by PKDofE | Feb 10, 2023 | The Starfish Way
Our PKAVS group were extremely productive in their sessions last week! We walked around Megginch mapping different tree species that will help towards creating a biodiversity map. We used twigs to ID trees such as Oak, Sycamore and Beech. We then built animal foot...
by PKDofE | Feb 8, 2023 | The Starfish Way
Our Starfish Way groups enjoyed another sunny day at Megginch last week! The groups learnt how to whittle a fork out of some pine wood, learning different cutting techniques and knife safety. The activity involved using three different whittling tools, a whittling...
by PKDofE | Jan 29, 2023 | Megginch Castle, The Starfish Way
This week Jacob has been making delicious sun dried tomato, pesto and mozzarella toasties and as you can see when the toasties were being cooked in the Coorie House, Inka the dog was very interested in what was happening and wanted to have a bite! What do you usually...
by PKDofE | Dec 2, 2022 | Megginch Castle, Skills Development, The Starfish Way
This week our open group of Starfish Way participants started making beeswax wraps, which is a more sustainable way to using cling film. Our young people cut out an old piece of fabric and then they shaved the beeswax particles onto the fabric to cover the whole...
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