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School Visits

School visits for all Key Stages can be arranged to suit the topics of your choice. With this 'tailor-made' approach, we endeavour to provide you and your class with a unique, valuable and affordable educational experience from £2.50 per student.

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
  • Patterns, shapes and sizes - variety
  • Plants and us
  • Food
  • Rainforests
  • Pond natural history
  • Compost - invertebrates and decomposition
  • Planting
  • The senses

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
  • 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

Topics for secondary schools:

  • Geography
  • Art and design
  • Citizenship
  • History
  • Science
  • Design Technology

See How to book a visit for booking details.