Reeli's Pigeon
Protectors
Notice. Understand. Help.A 40-minute interactive classroom session for 8–11 year olds. Children leave seeing pigeons differently and with a real-world mission they can participate in.
What happens in the classroom
The session is built as a game, not a lecture. Children vote, guess, argue and decide. It opens with myth-or-fact, moves through pigeon abilities and observation, then hands the class responsibility for one pigeon's welfare decisions.
Children explore and tackle a real world welfare problem. The first rule they are taught is to observe first — not touch, not catch, not feed — and to tell a responsible adult when an animal needs help.
Contact us about your schoolThe pledge, and then
the mission.
I will notice. I will learn. I will be kind. And I will never say to Reeli she is NOT famous
Children leave seeing pigeons differently and with a real-world mission they can participate in.
Contact us
Five lessons. One badge each.
Educators or parents can run the whole programme or one lesson at a time. Mark a lesson complete to unlock its badge. Collect them all and become one of Reeli's Pigeon Protectors.
Five statements, wings out for fact and hands on head for myth. Ends on where all the baby pigeons are.
Three challenges on memory, vision and navigation, with the real science kept separate from Reeli's world.
One photograph, twenty seconds, no instructions. Teaches the first rule of a Pigeon Protector: observe first.
The class takes responsibility for Dove. Assessment instead of panic, and telling a responsible adult instead of catching.
Don't catch them. Don't chase them. Just notice them. Seven days of simple class observations, no home locations recorded.
Printable Pigeon Protector certificate, Reeli stickers and the wall poster for a Reeli Pigeon Protector School.
Coming soonEarn your way to Certified Pigeon Protector.
Each completed lesson unlocks a badge. Finish all five and the earn the certificate and designate your school as a Pigeon safe zone.
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