School Visits
We can visit your school!
Norfolk Wildlife Trust regularly visits schools to deliver sessions for children and teachers. Most of the sessions we deliver on nature reserves can also be delivered successfully in schools. Why not join NWT for some fun and interactive wildlife sessions in your school grounds!
Outreach days for children
- Living Landscape - take on an animal identity for the day by making an animal mask and play the environmental game, ‘Fright or Flight’. By using our props to construct a connected landscape in your school grounds you will discover why a living landscape is so important for wildlife and for people. Take a walk through your imaginary habitats to find out more about the species that would love to live there whilst discovering the ways in which you could improve school grounds and gardens for wildlife for real!
- Saving Species - find out how you can help wildlife in this saving species challenge. Hidden around your school grounds are missions which must be acted upon – build a bug home, plant a tree, make a log pile, feed the birds, design a poster or make a balancing bug! Raise awareness of species in decline, survey your school grounds and report your findings on your school website. Learn all about habitats, observe the dangers of litter for wildlife in our ‘Haul of Horrors’ and discover ways in which we can live more sustainable lives in order to help our wonderful native wildlife.
- Living Seas - explore the shore and the secrets of the sea through our treasure chest of strandline finds. Find out what lived inside a mermaids purse, why you would never invite a starfish to dinner, how a cockle finds his way home, What a dog whelk like to lick, where a lug worm likes to lurk, and what a sailor can do with a wash ball! Learn about how our coastline has changed over the last 100 million years and discover ways in which you can help to support marine wildlife today.
- Hidden Habitats - explore the world of Hidden Habitats by looking at the tracks and trails that animals leave behind. Build your own shelter using flat-pack card and from your hide-out, use binoculars to take yourself on a flight of fancy from grass roots to treetops to discover where our native wildlife wanders. Make a reed and bamboo habitat to take home or to leave in the school grounds for bugs and beetles!
- Beaks, Bones and Body Bits - look at skulls, beaks , poos and pellets and learn more about the wildlife with which we share our natural environment. Enjoy a bird beak buffet to find out what treats are for different beaks and dissect an owl pellet to discover what goes crunch in a Barn Owl’s lunch! By playing the environmental game, ‘Predator’ you will find out more about raptors and their prey and in ‘Hooo am I?’ you will discover how animals and birds communicate with each other and with us!
- Wildlife Communication - why is the hoverfly yellow and brown? What is that blackbird talking about and why does my dog wee against a lamppost? Prick up your ears, sharpen your eyes and wrinkle your noses to experience how animals “talk” to each other through colour, sound, behaviour and smell. In our wildlife communication workshop you will get to know all the funny, curious and weird ways how animals and plants communicate. You will find out what messages are important enough to make a fuss about and compare animal behaviour to your own. Be prepared to sing like a bird, waggle like a bee or follow the smelly trail of an ant in this fun and informative workshop.
- Outreach visits are priced according to the number of Norfolk Wildlife Trust staff needed to deliver them. For one member of staff, we charge £75 + VAT for half days and £135 + VAT for full days. For two members of staff, we charge £150 + VAT for half days and £175 + VAT for full days.
Please ring the education officer on 01603 625540 to discuss your school’s needs and make a booking.
In service training for teachers
We offer in service training on:
- Step Outside! Taking the National Curriculum outside
- Teaching literacy in the school grounds
- Teaching numeracy in the school grounds
- In service training costs £100 + VAT for half-day or twilight sessions and £200 + VAT for full-day sessions.
Schools grounds advice
We can visit your school to advise on improving the grounds for wildlife and for outdoor learning. We charge £50 + VAT + travel costs for visits with verbal advice only and £100 + VAT + travel costs for visits followed by a written report.