Key Stage 2 programme - Rainforest workshop

In this session, primary school students explore a series of exciting discovery boxes and find out about the products of the rainforest. The rainforest workshop is part of a half day or full day visit that is tailored to suit the needs of your group and planned in detail prior to the visit.

Making music in our rainforest music workshop.

Overview

Students look at rainforest products and use these products to create rainforest music.

Length: Typical workshop - 45 minutes.
Group size: 30 students (maximum).
Minimum supervision required: 1 adult per 8 students.
Programme cost: Part of a full day visit - fee starts at £180 | Part of a half day visit - fee starts at £130 | See our detailed pricing plan for more information.

Learning outcomes

School visits at Wakehurst support and enhance the curriculum offered in schools. We aim to give students opportunities that are difficult or impossible to create in the school environment.

As teachers ourselves, we design our sessions to match the learning outcomes in the National Curriculum. At the moment, the new government has withdrawn the changes planned for 2010/11 and will be producing new curriculum guidelines. Once they have done that, we will re-visit the learning outcomes for our sessions.

The learning outcomes shown apply to the curriculum as it is at this time. Please note that all our sessions have a cross-curricular approach and are tailored to suit the educational needs of your group. This session offers students the opportunity to learn to:

recognise the many ways in which plants are adapted to life in a rainforest
create music using rainforest materials
recognise familar rainforest products.

Links with QCA/DfE schemes of work

National Curriculum Science

Sc2 Life processes and living things - Life processes; Green plants; Living things in the environment.

QCA Science

Unit 3B: Helping plants grow well.
4B: Habitats.
6A: Interdependence and adaptation.

National Curriculum Geography

Knowledge and understanding of environmental change and sustainable development.

QCA Geography

Unit 5: Where in the world.
Unit 22: Contrasting a locality overseas.

QCA PSHE

Unit 5: Living in a diverse world.

Book now

A typical day at Wakehurst is made up of three activities of approximately 45 minutes each, two in the morning and one after lunch.
Once you've selected the combination of workshops and trails for your group, you can make a school booking to visit Wakehurst by filling in our online form.