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Outdoor Workshops at Pitzhanger
Choose from a selection of exciting workshops about plants, animals, and the local ecosystem with expert Forest School Leader Usma Shah from Forest Buds. She will lead your class on a learning adventure through one of Ealing’s most beautiful parks!
Plant Botany and its Uses
In this hands-on workshop, children will learn about and explore the plant world by identifying different parts of the plants growing in the park, analyse different features of a plant by zooming in, and learn how to identify the different plant families. They will also learn how to press a plant and label for record keeping. This will be followed by a craft and cooking demonstration to show the uses of plants as decoration, food, clothes and medicine. Activities to choose from will include balm making, string making from a plant, Japanese printing of a plant, cyanotype of plants, and herbal teas to a wild salad.
Wildlife Friends: Habitats of mini beasts, busy bees, birds & frogs
Discover the habitats of local creatures that make their homes in the park, including busy bees, hungry caterpillars, singing birds, jumpy frogs, and more! Learn about the wildlife in our local ecosystem, and how we can develop and nurture positive relationships with the living things in our environment.
Tremendous Trees
This workshop introduces children to London’s most common trees, and the Park’s more unusual trees, from a natural classroom with logs as benches. The workshop will begin with an introduction to the anatomy of trees, and why they are so important for pollution reduction, the air we breathe, and as habitats and food sources for wildlife. The group will go on a ‘tree trail’, learning to identify a number of trees, and their uses in medicine, cooking, and jewelry making (eg. amber).
Details
Cost
£150 per workshop for up to 30 students (£5 per student)
Age Group
EYFS, Key Stage 1, 2, & 3
Curricular Connections
Science: Plants, Animals, Living things and their habitats
When
Bookable on Wednesdays and Thursdays during term time
How long?
Two hours per workshop
Contact Us
If you would like to explore a topic that is not covered by our Outdoor Workshops, please let us know and we can try to accommodate. For more information about any of our programmes, including policies and procedures for school visits, please contact learning@pitzhanger.org.uk.
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