WILD ABOUT SUSSEX WILDLIFE
Environmental Education Programme
Marine, Freshwater and Terrestral Wildlife for all ages
SUSSEX MARINE EDUCATION PROGRAMME
The Sussex Marine Education Programme is a varied programme that is delivered across the Sussex County. We can work with schools on the Shoreham Beach Local Nature Reserve or at a beach more local to your school. We also have an outreach programme called Bringing the Seashore into the Classroom.
We can also deliver sessions geared to the Geography Curriculum and have work with both primary and secondary school visits. This includes sessions and activities on Shoreham Beach, a shingle spit at the mouth of the river Adur which provides great opportunities to look at coastal process and beach profiling as well as sea defences. This also links to the nearby adur estuary and river adur.
Over many centuries, coastal processes and the river Adur have shaped and continue to shape the coastline at Shoreham so we can also place the geography of Shoreham Beach in a historical context as well as present day. We can also provide an oveview of the very diverse coastal geography in Sussex and work with schools on other coastlines including the West Beach littlehampton where there is the remains of a dune system once more common along the Sussex Coast and at Newhaven where coastal and river processes diverted the river from Seaford to its present position.
Schools can visit Shoreham Beach to undertake beach profiling activities and sea defences past and present.
At Shoreham, students can also study a working nature reserve and the careful balance required between protecting a rare vegetated shingle habitat with public access and human activities. Students can also consider the possible affects of local and global conservation issues and how they might impact on the nature reserve.
It is predicted that in the UK sea level rise and an increase in severe storms will threaten coastal communities resulting in coastal erosion and flooding. We are also seeing a change in the sea weed and marine life comunities on our coast diue to an increased sea temperature.

Click photograph to link to Shoreham Beach Education Programme
Click the link to our current Sussex Marine Education Programme
Click the link to our Bringing the Seashore into the Classroom Programme
More links and pages coming soon
SHOREHAM BEACH LOCAL NATURE RESERVE
MARINE EDUCATION PROGRAMME
COASTAL GEOGRAPHY