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School visits

What to expect from a school visit
School tour group

  • Risk Assessment documents provided
  • Teachers' resources, including tour notes and worksheets are available to download from this website (see below)
  • Guided tours ensure an engaging & immersive experience for all pupils
  • An exciting learning environment with free ranging butterflies and birds, alongside plants and animals from across the globe
  • An education officer to help you get the best from your day
  • Well stocked gift shop with plenty of pocket money items
  • Indoor space with an allocated area for your group and outdoor seating with an excellent enclosed play area for warmer days
Each guided tour lasts approximately 50 minutes. Schools are asked to be punctual. Unfortunately, groups arriving late may have their tours shortened.
School visit pricing (2008)
The guided tours cost £68.00 + VAT per group.

A group consists of up to 15 students and two adults. Extra adults will be asked to pay the normal adult admission rate.

Please note that there are three time slots for school groups: 10am, 11.30am and 12.45pm. Up to four groups may be booked per time slot.

We encourage schools to use the gift shop wherever possible, as this revenue helps us keep school visit charges low.

If you have any questions or wish to book please contact us on +44 (0)1635 202444, ext. 14 on weekdays between 8.30 am and 4.30 pm or e-mail education@livingrainforest.org

School tours
Amazing Adaptations
Our most popular tour for schools, Amazing Adaptations focuses on how plants and animals have adapted to suit living in a rainforest environment. The tour covers areas including: the ability of rainforest leaves to get rid of excess water; plant adaptations to maximise light and nutrient uptake; and the way various animals are suited to life in the rainforest. For this tour children should already know about the various layers of a rainforest.

Key words: drip tips, epiphytes, climbers, aerial roots, camouflage, habitat, home

National Curriculum links: KS2: Science (Sc2) - 3a,3b,3c,5a,5b,5c; Geography - 3d,3e,3g; KS3: Science (Sc2) - 3a,3c,4a,5a,5b,5c;5d; Geography - 6e; KS4: Science/Single (Sc2) - 4a Science/ Double (Sc2) - 4a,5a

Downloadable resources
PDF DocumentAmazing Adaptations tour notes
PDF DocumentBackground worksheets (6 pages, 450kB) 
PDF DocumentAmazing Adaptations worksheets (6 pages, 370kB)

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Edible Forest
Especially suitable for younger children, this tour introduces students to the wide variety of foods that come from rainforest environments. Many children do not realise that the foods they eat originate in tropical climates so this tour aims to get children thinking about what they eat, where it comes from, who creates it and how it gets to their table.

Key words: fruit, agriculture

National Curriculum links: KS1: Science (Sc2)- 2b,2c; Geography - 3e, 5b; PHSE & Citizenship - 3a,5d; KS2: Science (Sc2) - 5b,5c,5d,5e; Geography - 3g,5b; PHSE & Citizenship -2j,3a,5d

 

Sustainable Future
The 'Sustainable Future' tour helps students to explore the idea of "sustainable development" and its implications for different peoples, places and environments, using specific examples from tropical rainforest regions. It makes the connection between ecosystems, human needs and students' own lives. For this tour students should already have some understanding of the rainforest ecosystem. The tour is not very suitable for younger primary school children. This programme was developed with funding from the Vodafone Charitable Trust.

Key words: sustainability, global citizenship, interdependence, consumption, waste, human needs, culture, environmental change

National Curriculum links: KS2: Science (Sc2) - 5a; Geography - 3e,4b,5a,5b; PHSE & Citizenship - 2e,2j, 4b, 5a, 5d, 5g; KS3: Science (Sc2) - 5a; Citizenship - 1i,2a,3a; Geography - 1e,3e,5a,5b,6j,6k; KS4: Science (Sc2/Single) - 4b,4c; Science Double(Sc2) - 5b,5c; Citizenship - 1f,1h,1j,2b,3a

Downloadable tour notes
PDF DocumentSustainable Future tour notes
PDF DocumentBackground worksheets (6 pages, 450kB) 
PDF DocumentSustainable Future worksheets (8 pages, 190kB)

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Rainforest Medicines
This tour will look at the medicinal uses and potential of rainforest plants and animals. It will also explore what the term ‘medicine’ means to people from different cultures, and who might benefit from the pharmaceutical products based on medicinal rainforest species. This programme was developed with funding from the Clore-Duffield Foundation.

Key words: traditional medicine, global communities, sustainability, environmental change, pharmaceutical products, culture, global economy

National Curriculum links: KS2: Geography - 3g,4b,5b; PHSE & Citizenship - 2e,2j, 4b, 5a, 5d, 5g; KS3: Science (Sc 1) 1c, (Sc2) - 2n; Geography - 6e,6j, 6k; Citizenship - 1i; KS4: Science Single/Double (Sc1) 1c,d; Citizenship - 1j

Downloadable tour notes
PDF DocumentRainforest Medicines tour notes
PDF DocumentBackground worksheets (6 pages, 450kB) 
PDF DocumentRainforest Medicines worksheets (6 pages, 140kB)

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How to book

If a cancellation is made within two weeks of the date of the visit a charge of 50% of the expected cost will be made, apart from cancellations made under exceptional circumstances.

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