Learn how you and your school can help save the rainforests with our fantastic, free online programme for primary and secondary schools across the UK and Ireland (pupils aged 8-14).
Choose from 3 fascinating challenge topics: the Food We Eat, Stuff We Buy and Energy We Use and then carry out simple tasks to help your school learn about the rainforest and how to protect the environment.
With brilliant curriculum-based resources, students learn about the rainforest across a range of subject areas including geography, citizenship, science, numeracy and PSHE building valuable life skills including creativity, communication and teamwork.
There are great prizes on offer including the opportunity to win £1,000 (€1,250) for your school and make a short film about the rainforest.
Register today to set up your Challenge Team!
Register your school today and help protect the world’s rainforests!
As you move through the Challenge, your team will accumulate points.
May 22 2013 is International Day for Biological Diversity – a chance for people around the world to come together to help protect the amazing plants and animals that live on our planet.
This year the theme is water – a resource that we sometimes take for granted, but is vital to every living thing on Earth. Rainforests such as the Amazon are particularly important as they provide clean water for human communities. It’s really important that everyone joins together to do their bit in helping to protect them.
By taking part in the Sky Rainforest Rescue Schools Challenge schools across the UK and Ireland can take real action to look after the world’s rainforests. Through an ...
Teams Taking Action
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Challenge: Food We Eat
It's our absolute pleasure to announce our new Team of the Month - St. Bride's Foodies from St. Bride's Primary in Cambuslang. The team, led by their teacher Mr Nugent has shown great enthusiasm through their blog and the team members have undertaken some brilliant actions since starting the Challenge in February. Well done to you all and keep up the hard work during the final few weeks of the Challenge. Remember - the competition deadline is 14th June at midnight!
The 2011/12 Grand Prize winners of the Sky Rainforest Rescue Schools Challenge were the students from St Marks C.E Primary School in Wigan. Click below to watch the the rainforest news story they made at the Sky Skills Studio as part of their Grand Prize.
The Challenge is a very effective tool for learning. The way it fits with the curriculum was spot on, and was an enhancement to what we were already doing."