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Thanks for your interest in Fishkeeper Fry – our exciting, free interactive learning programme developed for primary school children by Maidenhead Aquatics.
Now approaching its fourth year, our Fishkeeper Fry programme is an interactive learning programme, designed by the fishkeeping experts at Maidenhead Aquatics to support national curriculum primary science themes and is absolutely free of charge to teachers - its sole purpose being to develop the next generation of responsible fishkeepers and fishkeeping hobbyists. There is absolutely no payment required from schools at all and at the end of the programme schools can opt to keep their aquarium and fish free of charge assuming they are happy to continue to look after and maintain their aquariums once the programme closes.
Maidenhead Aquatics and our supporting partner, Fluval, provide all schools selected to take part each year, with all the equipment and learning resources they need to set up their own aquarium in their classroom, including the aquarium and all associated equipment and a range of fish which they will learn all about - supported by their teacher. There is no cost to the school or the children taking part and the benefits of the programme are many including:
Each week teachers are asked to select a Fishkeeper of the Week as the child in their class who has embraced core tasks and associated work in the class in learning about and caring for their aquarium and fish. They will also share with us a range of work and photos of your child’s class working on the programme so that we can share these on our and our supporter, Fluval’s website and social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram). Please note we will only share images where full parental consent for photography has been obtained from you by your school so you can be sure that only content that you are happy to be shared publicly on our website and social channels will be shared.
The programme is designed to be delivered in its entirety by your child’s school if the school is selected to participate and this will be either as part of the school day or as part of
Please refer applications for Fishkeeper Fry here!
Please note whilst we warmly welcome interest from parents and other family members we can only accept formal applications to the programme from the teachers at schools who will be delivering the programme to their classes as it is their time commitment that the success of the programme will rely on. So, if you are not a teacher but know of a school or teacher who would be interested in taking part do share this page with them and encourage them to get involved.
Has your child's class been selected to take part in this year's programme?
Fishkeeper Fry 2020 kicks off on 20th January 2020, so why not follow along with the videos and lesson plans this year's teachers have been provided with so you can see what our Fry classes are working on each week here:
https://www.fishkeeper.co.uk/fishkeeper-fry-lessons
You can also check out our social media channels to keep up to date with what this year's children have been up to. We'll be posting our Fishkeepers of the Week along with photos and pictures of our classes' aquariums and associated work.
https://www.facebook.com/FishkeeperFry/
https://www.instagram.com/fishkeeper_fry/
Towards the end of the programme, we’ll also have some fantastic offers on the equipment that was used in the programme for parents of children who took part to purchase at very special prices, so that you can set up your own aquarium the same as the children have in their classroom at home should you wish and carry on the learning in the comfort of your own home.