The following activities are designed at the levels of Key Stages 1 and 2 to support the children's work for the National Curriculum.
Learning about Richmond Park and its wildlife
These activities take place on our nature trail and out in the Park.
Life in the Park in Victorian times - the Sawyer family who lived at Holly Lodge and their servants
Dress up in Victorian costumes and soak in the atmosphere in our recreated Victorian room full of fascinating artefacts.
Mr Palmer’s Chymist
Make your own pills, powders and extracts! Learn about health in Victorian times and perform a little play about Mrs Poverty and her sick child.
Mr Palmer's Chymist includes the original interior, artefacts and dispensing records from a Victorian pharmacy in Mortlake. They were donated to us by the last owner, Mr Alex Mulholland and have been restored and refitted into a building at the Centre. The shop originally opened in 1865 and on entering the shop you can step back in time – you can even smell the old herbs!
All these activities provide many opportunities for improving literacy, vocabulary and numeracy.
We welcome children with disabilities and our activities are adapted so they can experience as much as is possible.