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School Visits

Educational visits for all Key Stages can be arranged to suit the topics of your choice and the needs of your students. With this 'tailor-made' approach, we provide you and your class with a unique, valuable and affordable educational experience from £3 per student.
More information on how to book a school visit.

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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 Climate change

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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Booking a visit

Bookings for school visits can be made for Mondays to Fridays during school hours. Visits can be for a whole day (typically 10am-2.30pm) or for half a day (10am-12pm / 1230pm-230pm). On fine days, lunches can be eaten on the lawn; when the weather isn't so fine, in our classroom.

A Teachers' Pack can now be downloaded (PDF/3.17MB). This will give you all the necessary information regarding a school visit.

To book a visit, please call the Education Department on 020 7349 6453; fax: 020 7376 3910; Email: education@chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk

	Half Day	Full Day
Primary Schools	£3 per student*	£4.25 per student*
Secondary Schools	£4.50 per student*	£5.50 per student*
Outreach Package Where we visit your school with a conditional follow-up visit to the Garden (not included in this price)	£150	£300
Teacher Trianing (CPD)	£54 per teacher	£108 per teacher
*Minimum charge is for 20 students

Please note: Teachers are required to come for a preliminary visit to see the Garden, discuss the activities, make sure they fit the chosen topic(s) and to see the layout of the Garden and its facilites before making a booking.

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It is also possible to do this at one of our Teachers' Evenings which will be held on 30th June and 7th October from 4.15-6.15pm.

A Risk Assessment for educational visits can be downloaded here (Word doc/51Kb)