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Learn about animals, plants, trees, and more in the beautiful surrounds of Pitzhanger with outdoor school workshops in wonderful Walpole Park!

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).

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Core Workshops

We have a range of workshops that focus on art, design and architecture as well as the history of John Soane and the house he built for his family, Pitzhanger Manor.

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Secondary

We have a range of workshops that focus on art, design and architecture as well as the history of John Soane and the house he built for his family, Pitzhanger Manor.

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Contact Us

PITZHANGER MANOR & GALLERY
Ealing Green, London
W5 5EQ
Reception: 020 3985 8888
Venue Hire: 020 3994 0966
Office: 020 3994 0967
pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk

Wednesday - Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00
First Thursday of the month: 10:00 - 20:00
Monday - Tuesday: Closed
Bank Holidays: 10:00 - 17:00

Last admissions one hour before closing

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