School Visits
Educational visits for all Key Stages can be arranged
to suit the topics of your choice as well as the needs of your students.
With this 'tailor-made' approach, we endeavour to provide you and
your class with a unique, valuable and affordable educational experience
from £3 per student.
More information on booking a school
visit.
A typical educational visit can include a selection of the
topics listed below and tends to be cross-curricular. We are also
open to suggestions regarding topics not mentioned below.
A Teachers'
Pack can now be downloaded (PDF/3.17MB). This will give you all
the necessary information regarding a school visit.
Frequently requested Key Stage 1 topics:
- Properties of materials
- Growth
- Stories
- Plant requirements and care of plants
- Seeds and seed dispersal
- Seasonal changes
- Plants in the local environment
- The reason for a flower
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- Patterns, shapes and sizes - variety
- Plants and us
- Food
- Rainforests
- Pond natural history
- Compost - invertebrates and decomposition
- Planting
- The senses
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Frequently requested Key Stage 2 topics:
- Plant adaptations to life in different habitats
- Terrestrial food chains
- Aquatic food chains
- Improving the environment - recycling, reducing and reusing
- Art
- Numeracy in the landscape
- Literacy in the landscape
- I.C.T.
- Design and technology
- Lifecycles
- Parts of a plant/flower - dissection
- Planting and germination
- Pollution and how to monitor it
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- Seed dispersal
- Sorting and classifying
- Plants and us
- History (plant hunters, traditional uses of plants, garden
history)
- Pollination - as a process leading to seed formation
- S.A.Ts revision
- Animal behaviour - invertebrates, amphibian, bird
- Plants and medicine
- Ecology - pond, compost, plant
- Micro-organisms
- Climate change
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Topics for secondary schools and colleges:
- Geography
- Art and design
- Citizenship
- Medicinal plants and plant poisons
- History
- Science
- Design & Technology (and bio-mimicry)
- Literacy
- Maths in nature
- Photography
- Dyes - a practical workshop
- Botanical Latin
- Climate Change
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See How to book a visit for booking details.
