Environmental Education (Age 4+)

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Lead Your Own Session or Let Our Experts Guide You

Choose between leading your session by hiring our equipment or leave it to our skilled instructors to deliver an unforgettable experience for your students.

Our hands-on sessions immerse your pupils in the world of plants and animals, helping them explore different habitats, adaptations, food webs, and predator-prey relationships. They'll learn scientific techniques to identify various species of mini-beasts and plants, while also conducting surveys like real ecologists.

For a more interactive geography lesson, try our River Studies sessions. Equip your students with wellies, and let our instructors bring the water cycle, river formation, and flooding to life. We examine rivers in a broader landscape, discussing the effects of industry and agriculture on our waterways.

No need to worry about lesson planning—we’ve got you covered. All sessions are tailored to the Key Stage 1 and 2 National Curriculum and come with work booklets for students to take back to school.

Fill out our easy-to-use enquiry form to start planning your visit or contact our friendly Sales and Events Team via email at eventbookings@wokingham.gov.uk or by phone at 0118 237 8095. We’re here to assist with any questions you may have.

Enquiry Form

Ratios

With all environmental education activities, for children under the age of 8 years, in addition to the Ranger provided there must be staff present to take overall responsibility for the group. 1:30 ranger to students ratio.

Consent Forms

Before your visit, a consent form must be completed for group bookings. If you have instant access to participants’ medical information (e.g., through a school database), our group consent form is sufficient. This must be signed before any student can participate.

Consent Form

Make sure you check out Before You Visit page for our what to bring guides and additional details. 

Explore Our Activities

Pond Dipping 

Catch beasts of the deep and find out about life cycles and food chains in the murky depths of the lakes at Dinton.

Meadows and Woodland 

Find out what is flying, crawling, creeping and hiding in the grass meadows and woodland and habitats at Dinton.

River Studies 

Measure, explore and analyse the waterways of Dinton. Bring your wellies and we will supply everything else for an in depth study of a section of one of our site rivers.

Wilderness Skills 

An introductory session to the world of bushcraft, with shelter building for teddy bears, the art of tracking and using the natural world to navigate. This session has no fire lighting involved.

Map Walks 

What makes a map a Map? And how do we use one? Our map walks are tailored to Key Stage 1 and they look at where do we use maps, what does a map show us and what does it need? Then how we use it to get our bearings and decide where we want to go. 

Natural Navigation

The ability to read the world around us to find our way has been an essential life skill for millennia. This awareness of the signs and cues given to us by nature is being slowly lost. This experiential session aims to get the students to open their senses to the natural world around them to identify different natural navigation markers to help them find their way.