Book an education visit to Kew Gardens

Visit with your school or university group and be inspired by our world-leading botanic gardens.

Students examine pine trees at Kew

Before you book: 

Remember:

  • Once we have confirmed your booking, we allow 1 working day to review the details of your booking and request a change without incurring any fees, after which point, you become liable for payment in full. If you would like to amend or cancel your booking you may incur fees (see our terms and conditions).
  • Please allow 3 working days for us to process bookings.

Contact us:

If you have any questions before submitting a booking form, please email us at schools@kew.org or call us on 0208 332 5627.

Booking Form

When would you like to visit?

Please give 3 possible dates.

Who will be visiting?

Where will you be visiting from?
What year groups (ages) are your pupils?
About your accompanying adults

You must have the correct ratios of adults to pupils:  

SEN 1:1   EYFS 1:4   KS1 1:5   KS2 1:8   KS3 1:10   KS4/5 1:12

About your visit

You can choose an appropriate education session for your group (additional fees apply) or plan your own self-led visit. See our prices, planning and practical information page for entry fees, education session prices and timings.

Would you like to book an education session?
Which Key Stage sessions are you looking for?
EYFS sessions
KS1 sessions
KS2 sessions
KS3 sessions
KS4 sessions
KS5 half / full
KS5 sessions (half day)
KS5 sessions (full day)

Please select 2 sessions for a full day.
Exam board

Travelling to Kew Gardens

How will you be travelling to Kew Gardens?

Please note that schools travelling by coach will be provided with a scheduled arrival and departure time. This is due to borough-wide changes to traffic management that are designed to minimise environmental impact. 

Your contact details

Your school / institution

Lead teacher on the day of our visit

Lead contact

School finance contact

Admin / finance contact

Any additional comments

To ensure anonymity, please do not include name(s) or any other information that could be used to identify an individual.

Terms and conditions

You will need to tick all three to proceed.

I have read and accept the terms and conditions, including cancellation policy.

 I have read and accept the dos and don'ts.

 I accept that the submission of this form constitutes a booking, that we will be liable for payment and that alterations/cancellations may incur fees.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew will use your information as the primary contact point for the purposes of booking your school’s visit to Kew. We** will use your data to fulfil an agreement with you and for legitimate interest purposes. Your information is accessible by Kew Schools team and other teams at Kew involved in Schools related processing. We will use your information to deal with queries, to obtain feedback and to provide you with information that may be relevant or of interest to you or your school/ organisation. This may include sending you newsletters outlining details of new educational initiatives being run at Kew and Wakehurst, information on Endeavour (Kew's interactive library of teaching resources) and opportunities to take part in competitions and CPD training. You can choose to unsubscribe at any time from these newsletters by selecting 'unsubscribe' at the bottom of an email from us.

Booking information will be retained for 7 years to comply with financial legal obligations and you will receive updates from us until you ask to be removed from the list. Kew’s privacy policy explains what data we collect and why, how we use it and other information relevant to the privacy of your data.

**'We' refers to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and its wholly owned trading subsidiary RBG Kew Enterprises Limited.

Pupils on a school session

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