East Coast Explorers underway.

Greetings from the East Coast Explorers.

This year we have 6 new schools participating in the Explorers Project:

Rathmichael PS, Scoil Mhuire Rathsallagh, St Philomena’s GNS Bray, St Cronan’s BNS Bray, Newcourt School Bray,  St Kevin’s Greystones. 

After a couple of weeks in preparation for the Project in the schools Aisling and Cathy from The National SeaLife Centre in Bray installed and set up aquariums in each of the 6 schools on Monday and Tuesday 14-15 November. Each school has a Shore Crab, a Shanny, a Butterfish, a Dogfish, a Starfish, some Beadlet Anemones and all the classes will be watching the development of a Dogfish egg which is suspended on the front side of each tank.

Aisling and Cathy explained the stages of setting up the tanks and followed that with a question and answer session on the new arrivals to the classrooms.

Aisling stocking the tank

It is hoped that over the next month, while the tanks and their inhabitants reside in the classrooms, that the behaviour and activities of these creatures will be observed and compared, be the subject of further research and the knowledge gained will be recorded by each class. At the same time the classes will keep in touch with the fish study and developments in the other schools and share and compare their experiences weekly.