children being led into the forest for activities

Primary School Activities

Our activities enable young people to connect with nature and learn outside the classroom. Learners explore different habitats, learn new skills and have fun whilst meeting your curriculum objectives.

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Outdoor learning with Kent Wildlife Trust

Visits to our education centres are easy to organise and offer a safe and enriching outdoors environment for your students to learn in. Our education centres give you a wide range of choice of wildlife and nature-based activities. All of our activities are linked to the curriculum and offer fun and interactive ways of bringing learning to life.

Organising your visit

For a full day visit for one or two classes, you will need to select two activities from the below options. If you are bringing three classes, then please select three activities; four activities for four classes.

As an outdoor learning provider, we strive to deliver as much of our learning outdoors as possible, including making use of our outdoor teaching shelters. However, we do also have indoor classroom environments which can be used during winter months to deliver workshops such as the Birds of Prey Discovery Lab.

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Find out more about our activities and workshops below

Bella Sabine-Dawson helping a young child get their net into a pond

Pond Dipping Detectives

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Join Kent Wildlife Trust's Education Team for an education day out! Pupils will get the chance to use classification keys to help them identify a range of pond life in our pond dipping sessions.

Stag Beetle in childs hand

Magical Minibeasts

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Young explorers will set off into the ‘wild’ of our nature reserves to seek out and capture a variety of minibeasts in a range of habitats and micro-habitats: hunting under log piles, in rockeries, amongst compost and in our long grass meadows.

Green winged orchids, Marden Meadows

Perfect Plants

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Young explorers will set off into the ‘wild’ of our nature reserves to seek out and capture a variety of minibeasts in a range of habitats and micro-habitats: hunting under log piles, in rockeries, amongst compost and in our long grass meadows.

Beaver swimming with its head just above the water © Russell Savory

Beavers of Kent

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Discover how beavers engineer their habitats in this hands-on, practical workshop for Year 1-6 which can be delivered on your school grounds or as part of a school trip to a Kent Wildlife Trust site.

Barn owl flying in the sky at dusk
© Danny Green

Birds of Prey Workshop

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Dissect owl pellets in this exciting, hands-on workshop and investigate the food chains of Kent.

Mud kitchen created in a forest school
© Tim Horton

Forest School Experience

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Go wild and explore our woodlands in this Forest School taster session.

Child wearing a colourful coat dips her net into a river to find the wildlife that lives there
© Tom White

River Explorers

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An interactive workshop of physical and biological investigations in the river Darent (available only at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve).

looking at rocks through a magnifying glass

Rock Stars

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A practical session exploring the rocks, soils and fossils of Kent.

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