In November 2003, environmental artist Gordon MacLellan from the company 'Creeping Toad' led a series of activity days in Wycoller Country Park for four Pendle schools. These involved children in mask- and puppet-making, poetry- and story-writing and all kinds of artwork as they discovered the secrets of Wycoller’s historic past and its natural treasures.
In January 2004, Gordon followed this up with a training workshop for 23 primary school teachers at the Pendle Heritage Centre in Barrowford, which showed how teachers could develop links between literacy and outdoor work in gardens, school grounds or the countryside.
