Day Visits School Trip

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. Now including the new Lee Valley Ice Centre looking at the sustainable building design, regeneration and biodiversity of the surrounding area.

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 natural 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 our key programmes are Habitat Discovery Day and Plant Discovery Day. More programmes can be found on our website.

Prehistory School Trip

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 a great place to see nature in London.

Biology School Trip

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 as children will get to see the wildlife and plant life in the different habitats .

Physical Geography School Trip

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.

Team Building School Trip

We are in the process of redesigning this programme. I have put info for Orienteering as a teambuilding session.

Working in small groups, students take on the ultimate teambuilding challenge as they learn the fundamental principles of navigation. Teams are put to test as they explore our permanent orienteering course. Our score course tests tactics in addition to teamwork

Forest School School Trip

Our Forest School programme consists of a series of specialised, natural play-based programmes that put the learning back in the child's hands, letting children thrive and learn from real life experience in a natural setting whilst being facilitated by a trained Forest School leader.