Day Visits School Trip

Lee Valley Regional Park Authority

Waltham Abbey EN9 2ED

Lee Valley Regional Park is a perfect setting for providing a range of outdoor education programmes and our trained and accredited staff ensure each group gets the best learning experience from their day.

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What activities are available during educational visits?

Along with all the programmes above, we’ve Forest Schools level 3 trained staff on our team. We can deliver this service to your school within the Lee Valley Regional Park or at your school if you are local to us and have access to open spaces within your grounds. With sensory games, storytelling and woodland arts and crafts, this is a great session to encourage the kids into natural play and discovery.

Which curriculum topics do we cater for?

Design Technology School Trip

These programmes focus on the epic design of Lee Valley VeloPark and how the features of the giant in London’s landscape help make the venue a success after the Olympics.

Physical Education School Trip

Cunning Running is one of our programmes that introduces young children to the exciting sport of orienteering as well as building their team work and map reading skills. For older students, we’ve a range of orienteering challenges for them to get their teeth into.

Art School Trip

Our art sessions encourage children to use materials around them to create art. This could be through mud painting, clay sculpting or Hapa Zome. Our Mindfulness and Natural Art Discovery Day also uses these activities to help children practice mindfulness in the great outdoors.

Wildlife School Trip

The majority of our programmes incorporate learning about the amazing wildlife that call the Lee Valley Regional Park their home. Some of key programmes are Habitat Discovery Day and Plant Discovery Day. More programmes can be found on our website.

Prehistory School Trip

Stone Age

Let your class discover the lives of people from the Stone Age with our Stone Age Discovery Day. See what they used for food, medicine and what skills they would have needed to survive.

Victorian School Trip

The WaterWorks Discovery Day brings local Victorian history to life. Children will learn about the water cycle in Victorian London and how Essex Filter Beds played a part in the filtration process. These beds are now a wildlife nature reserve which is great place to see nature in London.

Biology School Trip

Plants Animals including humans Life Cycles Minibeasts Habitats Forest School

A range of our programmes cover plants, minibeasts, habitats and life cycles of the creatures in Lee Valley Regional Park. Habitat Discovery Day and Plant Discovery Day are great programmes for this.

Physical Geography School Trip

Water cycles Rivers Environment

Lee Valley Regional Park has a number of water bodies throughout its 10,000 acres that provide a great learning experience for children. Our Rivers and Lakes Discovery Day provides the opportunity to compare and contrast natural and man-made features of the meandering River Lea, the straight River Lee Navigation and lakes created from gravel extraction, and is one of the key programmes to cover this subject.

Environmental Geography School Trip

Conservation

A number of our open spaces are SSSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interest) where our programmes take place. Our school groups will be able to see some of the conservation works that are taking place to help species thrive in the area.

Forest School

What size groups do we cater for?

The Learning and Engagement Team are happy to work with groups of all sizes - please contact us to discuss your requirements.

On-site classroom facilities?

All of our programmes are delivered outdoors in Lee Valley Regional Park. If an indoor space is needed, please highlight within your enquiry.

Is there first aid on site?

All of our staff for First Aid trained.

Access for visitors with disabilities

We have disabled facilities at our base and programmes can be catered to help with accessibility for any disabled visitors.

Visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)

All of our programmes can be adapted for children who have special educational needs.

Anything else?

The Learning and Engagement Team holds the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge Learning and Engagement tutors are Makaton trained, hold a Forest School level 3 practitioner award and are Accredited Practitioners of the Institute of Outdoor Learning

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Who are Lee Valley Regional Park Authority?

The Learning and Engagement Team are passionate about providing children and young adults with an outdoor education experience from subjects covering science of the natural world, local history, design and physical education based around London 2012 Legacy venues.

Our Discovery Days cover all key stages and key topics in the National Curriculum.

Older students can also build vital team working skills through orienteering and discover more about the park around them on guided walks with the team.

Our team have experience in providing sessions to students with special needs. Sessions can be adapted to the groups needs and staff are Makaton trained.

All this and more in the 10,000 acre Lee Valley Regional Park just waiting for your class to discover.