We would love to support your visit to the Botanic Garden, please contact us to discuss a bespoke workshop to suit your needs. We can support subjects across the curriculum, including Science, English and Art. We look forward to hearing from you!
If the workshops listed do not meet your needs we would still love to support your visit to the Botanic Garden, please contact us to discuss a bespoke workshop to suit your needs. We can support subjects across the curriculum, including Science, English and Art. We look forward to hearing from you!
If the workshops listed do not meet your needs we would still love to support your visit to the Botanic Garden, please contact us to discuss a bespoke workshop to suit your needs. We can support subjects across the curriculum, including Science, English and Art. We look forward to hearing from you!
Visit our workshops page to see what is available for your class.
Led by expert staff, our workshops for KS2 allow your class to experience the beautiful Botanic Garden and ignite their interest in plants and science. All workshops are hands-on and involve exploring the Garden and getting up close with some of our 8000 species of plants.
Workshops for KS1 link to the National Curriculum and allow you to bring your learning about plants to life. Enthuse your class with a morning experiencing the Botanic Garden in a hands-on way with our expert staff. Workshops are two hours long. We can support your pupils’ science learning in Plants, Living things and Their Habitats, Seasonal Changes and Working Scientifically. We also offer a workshop which supports your work in English and Art and Design.
School visits
To book a school visit please visit our webpages which have extensive information about what we can offer your school and how to book.
Browse our workshops by Key Stage
Resources are available for every year group from EYFS to KS5. Check them out here.
KS5 groups may also find our Adult Trails useful.
School Visits
On Wednesdays, the Polar Museum although closed to the general public, will be open for pre-booked school group visits (one morning/one afternoon). Priority will be given to school groups who are visiting as part of a polar project. This arrangement will last until the end of 2021. You will lead your group around the museum accompanied by a member of our education team. We are happy to lend you clipboards and pencils. There is a suggested donation of £1 per child for a class group visit to the Polar Museum.
Home school challenges
Rituals and Beliefs focuses on the scene from a plaster cast taken of a stone lintel from the doorway of a temple in the city of Yaxchilan, now in modern day Mexico, and dating from 709AD.
The images depict a blood-letting ritual being performed by Lady K'ab'al Xook and her husnabd King Shield Jaguar. Lady K'ab'al Xook can be seen pulling a rope of thorns through her tongue in order to collect blood in a bowl filled with bark paper. Both figures are wearing jade and obsidian jewellery and dressed in resplendent costumes made fo fur and elaborate fabrics.
