Parks and Gardens
A school trip to a park or garden can be an inexpensive way to get your class or group out in the fresh air learning about nature, wildlife and the world around them. Some parks and gardens will offer organised, curriculum based activities, environmentally linked sessions and also trips to help you achieve healthy school’s status. A lot of parks and gardens will have playgrounds to let your children run off steam, have fun and bond with each other. Trips to parks and garden can be suitable for all ages, but more so for preschool, key stage one, key stage two and key stage three.
English Heritage North West
English Heritage should be applauded for their development of the Discovery Visit, which interprets the story of a site, giving a sense of time and place to visiting schools.
The World Outside Bodenham Arboretum
Offering curriculum linked activities on a working farm with in the beautiful surroundings of Bodenham Arboretum. All key stages catered for with experiential learning, developing inquisitive & positive relationships within the natural environment.
New Forest Wildlife Park Southampton
Based in the New Forest (National Park), you will find Europe’s largest collection of otters, owls, deer, badgers, lynx, mink, polecats, foxes, Scottish wildcats, pine martens, wallabies, wild boar, wolves & many more species of indigenous wildlife.
Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre Dorset
Tours can be tailored to the curriculum about a range of topics surrounding primate welfare & conservation. Enjoy enrichment days where groups can help make items used in the enclosures and learn about the importance of primate care and stimulation.
Heights of Abraham Cable Cars, Caverns & Hilltop Park Derbyshire
Heights of Abraham Derbyshire provide schools and educational groups with a unique memorable outdoor experience from cable car journeys to historical hilltop guided tours to underground caverns and hands on workshops in the woodland corner.
BeWILDerwood Cheshire
BeWILDerwood Cheshire is a huge outdoor woodland adventure park full of imagination and active play. No matter how teeny or tall you are, explorers can run WILD in the woods!
Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Garden Warwickshire
Kenilworth Castle & Elizabethan Gardens provides school trips & educational visits with great tours, exhibitions & interactive workshops, explore the Tudor gardens, medieval kitchens, great hall & Caslte or walk around the almost complete outer walls.
Hampstead Heath Schools Programme London
Hampstead Heath Schools Programme offers exciting school trips, where students have the chance to discover a natural environment and various different organisms, while still remaining in London.
Carlisle Castle Cumbria
An impressive frontier fortress with 900 years of history – excellent for Medieval, Tudor and Civil War topics. Carlisle Castle provides students with a sense of how the site has changed over time and what life was like for the people who lived here.
Stratford Butterfly Farm Warwickshire
Stratford-upon-Avon Butterfly Farm offers an excellent opportunity for children of all ages to learn about tropical rainforest environments and the plants and animals that live within these habitats (Key Stage 1 and 2 subjects covered)
Pooles Cavern & Country Park
Discover the largest stalactite and stalagmite in the Peak District and learn how water has eroded this vast series of chambers over millions of years, which then lined the cavern with incredible calcite crystal formations.
Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm Park and Animal Experiences Salisbury, Wiltshire
Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm is an expansive working farm, offering 40 acres of bucolic Wiltshire countryside; it is the perfect environment for your students to explore, with animal and husbandry learning experiences for primary and secondary schools.
