Explore the Sea Floor exhibition on the move!

Lara Murphy, 3 January 2008

The exhibition moved to the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in Brentford, Middlesex on the 7th January despite the high winds blowing the van about! The exhibition will be on display from 9th January to 2nd March 2008.

Explore the Sea Floor exhibition in Kew.

Explore the Sea Floor reaches further!

Lara Murphy, 2 January 2008

Explore the Sea Floor was present at the Association for Science Education Conference in Liverpool at the beginning of January. The project was met with enthusiasm from teachers and it is hoped that many more schools will use the resources in their classrooms.

Neges Nadoligaidd o Eglwys Teilo Sant

Sara Huws, 20 December 2007

Mae'r flwyddyn yn tynnu at ei therfyn, ac o gofio'r holl gynnwrf sydd 'di bod rownd yr adeilad (ac ynddo fe hefyd), mae'n braf gweld Eglwys Teilo Sant yn cael chydig o lonydd. Yn lliwiau diwrnod crenshlyd, oer fel heddiw, roedd yr adeilad yn edrych fel tase fe'n anadlu mas yn hir a dwfwn - yn paratoi i dorri gwreiddie ar dir Sain Ffagan. Mae 'di bod trwy ddipyn leni, ac ar ôl yr holl redeg ogwmpas, mae'n gret gallu camu 'nôl a gwerthfawrogi scale y peth. Mae fy ngwaith o ddydd i ddydd yn ymwneud fwyfwy â manylion bychain - esbonio symbolau, gwrthrychau a cherfiadau delicet. Fel y murlunwyr addurnodd yr eglwys 'nôl ym 1520, ma gafael reit wan 'da fi ar bersbectif ambell waith. Mae maint yn prosiect yn enfawr, a'r adeilad yn un arbennig (a lwcus) iawn.

Wrth gwrs, er ei bod hi'n ymddangos yn dawel iawn yma, dyn ni'n yr adran addysg di bod fel wiwerod yn ceisio diwygio gwefan yr eglwys. (Sôn am wiwerod - mae'r rhai sy'n frith dros y safle bron yn barod i gysgu dros y gaea - a ma nhw'n hiwj! Ga'n nhw fyw ar eu bloneg, nawr, tan y gwanwyn...). Ta waeth - y wefan - bydd newidiadau'n digwydd gan bwyll bach ym mis Ionawr. Bydd llawer mwy o orielau lluniau, a gwybodaeth am ddigwyddiadau - fe fyddai'n eich hysbysu chi hefyd, o broses yr ail beintio. Mae'r murlunwyr yn dod yn ôl i orffen yr addurno ym mis Ionawr, a gallwch eu gwylio'n gweithio, gobeithio! Hoffwn i wbod be 'dych chi'n feddwl o'r safle newydd felly cofiwch ymweld ag e yn y flwyddyn newydd!

Reit - cwpwl o anrhegion i chi cyn mynd...

Podlediad yr Eglwys - taith sain o amgylch yr Eglwys, a lluniau bach hyfryd i'ch diddanu. Lawrlwythwch e mewn i'ch gajets, impress friends and family gyda ffeithiau diddorol ambyti'r Oesoedd Canol rownd y bwrdd cinio 'Dolig...

Siop-Eglwysi Brooklyn - rhwbeth bach yn fwy modern, wedi'i ddarganfod ar flog technoleg a diwylliant boingboing.

...aaac un bach am lwc stori ar wefan y BBC i chi eu dreulio. Mwy fyth o dystiolaeth 'mod i wedi fy ngeni yn y ganrif rong - roedd y Tuduriaid yn iachach eu deiet na'r Rhufeiniaid, hyd yn oed!

 

Nadolig Llawen i chi o Eglwys Teilo Sant - gobeithio y gwelai chi yn y flwyddyn newydd!

Explore the Sea Floor visits a wharf!

Lara Murphy, 1 December 2007

The education officers for Explore the Sea Floor (Lara Murphy) and the Mineral Wealth- Seabed Health project run by the Marine Biological Association and National Marine Aquarium Plymouth (Lauren Taylor) visited Burnley Wharf in Southampton to have a close look at an aggregate dredger and see the aggregate being discharged to the wharf. It was very interesting to go on board and see first hand how marine aggregates are discharged onto land.

Many thanks to Mark Russell of BMAPA, Rob Langdon of Hanson and all on the City of London dredger for a very informative visit.

Explore the Sea Floor visits a wharf!

October sun makes way for November chill

Gareth Bonello, 15 November 2007

The autumn has been in full swing for a couple of weeks now, and the mild weather has resulted in some spectacular scenes here at St Fagans. The days of October were sunny and clear and the winds have been calm. The result of all this were spectacular shades of orange, red, yellow and brown as the leaves changed colour but stayed on the trees. Now that it is mid November we have had a couple of blustery days and a couple of rainy days and the branches are becoming increasingly bare as piles of dry leaves collect along the paths and roads. The temperature has also dropped dramatically over the past week, with the cold nights often leaving a frost on the leaves by the morning.

Many of the trees and hedges that bore fruit earlier in the month have been picked clean by the hungry birds. The squirrels are having a field day with all the seeds and nuts currently in abundance on the trees, Particularly the Beech Mast which is just starting to fall. I’ve also seen a good few Redwing over the past few weeks that have flown south from Scandinavia to cash in on the bounty of Hawthorn and Yew berries.

As far as activities go I had a very busy week with the school half term holidays. I ran workshops based on the BBC Autumnwatch and Nature Detectives schemes and personally dealt with over 1100 visitors! There was a leaf identification trail and an autumn identification challenge as well as colouring in for the little ones. The autumnwatch website is well worth a visit as it has loads of free resources and information that will keep you busy for years!

The woodland path is coming along nicely and plans for the panels are moving forwards. I’m particularly pleased with some of the ideas for activity panels that will get people interacting with their surroundings, and actually looking differently at the woodland. The path was cleared last week with the help of some volunteers from Legal & General and it's starting to look more walkable. Many thanks to the guys and girls at L&G for being such tough nuts and doing a great job! I've put some pictures below.

The Ty Gwyrdd interpreter Elin Roberts and myself have also started getting bird food from a company called Wiggly Wrigglers and have been feeding the birds all manner of treats outside the Ty Gwyrdd . I'm hoping to put up several bird feeding stations in the next few weeks as well as some nest boxes and hedgehog boxes too. Let me know if you have any comments and don't forget to look at the pictures!