Kingsmead School Pigeon Project
Kingsmead School and the Midlands National Flying Club are working hand in hand to get this new and exciting project into schools nationally in the fight against NDD.
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The Midlands National Flying Club and film maker Jim Jenner has produced a DVD called the Queens Wings and it is about a race that was flown in the Queens honor in 2012 to celebrate Her Majesty’s 60 years on the throne. This DVD that features children from Kingsmead and has been produced showing what it is like to keep and race Homing Pigeons. It shows how the sport has many values to add to children such as responsibility, respect and also shows how the sport can have a greater effect on the children’s psychology and relationships to nature. This was one area that has been a focus as research in the USA has now found that there is a disorder called Nature Deficit Disorder where children are becoming detached from the natural world around them.
The Midlands National Flying Club who have commissioned this DVD are working hand in hand with Kingsmead to find other social, moral and cultural understandings that can be used in an educational setting based around Racing Pigeons.
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As you can see from the resources in this section it is proving to be very successful.
Midlands National Flying Club and
Kingsmead School get backing from Department of Education to in their fight to tackle
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"Nature Deficit Disorder"
Click on the pictures and video from the BBC, eduction.com and Richard Louv about Nature link you to more information from the BBC and leading educational website education.com about the effects of "Nature Deficit Disorder" on young children.
