Children in Hartlepool have been learning how to attract wildlife back into urban gardens.

The Gardening for Wildlife project, organised by Yuill Homes, aims to attract more wildlife into urban gardens by encouraging both builders and home buyers to use measures that will encourage biodiversity in and around their homes.

Pupils from Lynnfield Primary School visited the recently landscaped garden of one of the homes at Yuill's Fulford Grange development on the outskirts of Hartlepool as part of the programme.

Designers at Yuill have created a showcase for a range of wildlife habitats. The garden features a feeding table and nesting box for birds, homes for bats and hedgehogs, and a bee "hotel".

The children were set a series of tasks in the garden including an analysis of plant types and textures, and identification of the various wildlife habitats that are hidden in the flora at the development.

To complete the field study, each child selected materials in the garden that exhibit a broad range of colours, and secured them to pieces of self-adhesive card to create natural palettes.