Activities for schools
The following activities are designed at the levels of Key Stages 1 and 2 to support the children's work for the National Curriculum.
- Animal homes / habitats
- Minibeast Safari
- Discovering life in water and pond-dipping
- Spring and autumn walks
- Trees and a tree identification trail*
- Bird life (for people with special needs)
- The countryside code (care of the environment)
- Richmond Park Explorer (self-guided)
- Maths trail*
- Message from Mars*
Life in the Park in Victorian times - the Sawyer family and their servants
- Domestic life and household chores
- Mrs Sawyer's Victorian Dame School
- Toys past and present**
- Preparing for a Victorian Christmas**
- Victorian games picnics*
- Pills, powders and potions***
* these activities require the help of our volunteers so please provide at least one months notice
** at certain times of the year only
*** these activities are linked to the Chemist Shop project and will be available from January 2008
All these activities provide many opportunities for improving literacy, vocabulary and numeracy.