Presence and colonisation of the seals
in the North Sea

contents :
(Updated Feb. 2002)

The pupils of St Anne's CM1 launched a project during the year 2000, 
« FOCUS on the SEALS of 
the OPAL COAST ».

Their project succeeded with the cooperation of Regional Wildlife Park, of the CMNF (Association for the
protection of marine mammals) and of
various actors on the Opal Coast  ("Observatoire du Littoral",
Nature Warden, etc ….) and of 
the Seal Care Centre of PIETERBUREN
(in the North of NETHERLANDS).

Their educational visits, their research, their work, their journey to Pieterburen… were filmed by Barbara Courcelle, producer of PEGASE Production. (Lille)

French version

Information with the C.M.N.F. (association for protection of marine mammals) : educational visit

Educational animation 
in class with the CMNF

Nausicaà visit : National Centre of the Sea,
in Boulogne

Activities with Nausicaà : « The North Sea, the sea of discovery »

Discovery of Cap Blanc-Nez and Cap Gris-Nez

Visit to the Picardy Coast 

Correspondance by Internet with schools. (websites)

Meetings with schools.

Activities in the Seal Care Centre of PIETERBUREN (NL)

 

 

The C.M.N.F (association for the protection of marine mammals)

The Regional Wildlife Park (Lille)

Nausicaà, the National Centre of the Sea (Boulogne)

Pegase Production (Lille)

The Head Teacher of St Anne's School

- To make the pupils sensitive to the variety of European cultures.

- To become aware of European citizenship.

- To discover the resemblances and the differences of countries belonging to the E.U.

- To discover the need to exchange information over the Internet.

- To require children to communicate in another language than their mother tongue.

- To make the children aware of the presence and arrival of seals on the Opal Coast and 
on the coasts of the North Sea.

- To discover what has been organised for the protection of Harbour Seals through European legislation.

- To discover the areas protected on the European coasts.

- To study and to compare the coastal landscapes, their natural evolution and their alteration. (Ports - Tunnel - Polders…)

- To discover the regional development and the economic activities of the various European countries.

- To study the activities of man on the Opal Coast and in the North Sea and their consequences on the environmental life of the seals.

- To communicate, to exchange information and documents with other children who speak another language in the E.U. using information technology such as the telephone and the Internet.