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We’ve got plenty of fun activities for before, during and after your Big Schools’ Birdwatch that will help your class develop their interest in wildlife and the world around them.

Submit your results from 6 January

New for 2026!

Introduction to Big Schools’ Birdwatch

Use our new PowerPoint to introduce Big Schools’ Birdwatch to your class.

Top tip: Present as a slide show to enable sound and animation features.

Collaboration with Micro:bit Educational Foundation

Learn about our collaboration with Micro:bit Educational Foundation to encourage pupils to consider the impact of being in nature on their mental health and wellbeing, whilst developing their coding skills at the same time.

Template press release

A template to help you produce a press release to share your activities with local media.

Survey sheet downloads

Help your class to identify and keep track of what they’ve seen during Big Schools’ Birdwatch with our simple survey sheets.

Blank survey sheet

12 bird species and a blank space to record your results.

Tens frame

Eight bird species and tens frames to support counting and recording numbers up to 10.

Subitising to five

Eight bird species and scaffolding to count and write numbers up to five.

Additional bird guides

Use these ID guides to help your pupils identify the common birds that are black, as well as the gulls they are most likely to see. Each guide contains key features and a size guide of the different birds.

Birds that are black

Gulls

Historical data sheet downloads

Use these differentiated historical data sheets with key questions to help your pupils to discover what was seen in previous years, and compare their findings to these results.

Historical data 1

The average number of the top 10 bird species recorded in the 2025 Big Schools’ Birdwatch, with some simple questions.

Historical data 2

The average number of the top 10 bird species recorded in the 2025 Big Schools’ Birdwatch, with some questions to encourage comparison with your class’s results.

Historical data 3

Two sets of results (differentiated to include a set with decimals) showing the mean count per class of the top 10 bird species recorded in the 2025 Big Schools’ Birdwatch, between 2020 and 2025.

Historical data 4

Five years (2016–2020) of data of the top 20 birds recorded in Big Schools’ Birdwatch, along with some suggestions of calculations your pupils can make.