The Sustainability Centre South Downs School Trips
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Curriculum topics available: Team building.
Help students develop their communication and teamwork skills, join us for our team building or forest skills days!Curriculum topics available: Story telling.
Be immersed in our story telling experience in our atmospheric woodland hall on your residential stay!Curriculum topics available: Orienteering.
Get your students moving, with a fun and educational purpose. Our orienteering activity combines their map reading skills, with our 55 acre site to explore! Alternatively, join us for our team building activities including 'Lava River' and 'Ski Planks'!Curriculum topics available: Sculpture, Craft.
Art is interwoven through many of our day visit and residential activities. We provide many opportunities for students creativity to flourish, examples include chalk carving, clay tree spirits, nature mandalas and much more!Curriculum topics available: Healthy Living, Healthy eating, Teamwork and resilience.
Help students develop their communication and teamwork skills, join us for our team building or forest skills days! Learn more about where their food comes from on our local food and farming visit, exploring our partner farm on a tractor trailer ride!Curriculum topics available: Where food comes from.
Learn more about where food comes from on our local food and farming visit, exploring our partner farm on a tractor trailer ride. When back at the Centre see if you can match raw ingredients to final packaged products!Curriculum topics available: Stone Age.
Want to know how things were made in The Stone Age? Or simply how they survived? Join us for a hands-on day exploring life through The Stone Age and how it progressed from the Paleolithic, to Mesolithic and Neolithic eras.Curriculum topics available: Saxon Settlements, Arts and Culture.
Come and learn all things Anglo-Saxon with our expert tutors. From an engaging show and tell experience with real and replica artefacts, to willow weaving hurdles and clay archaeology - it's sure to be a memorable day!Curriculum topics available: War Propaganda, Women in wartime, Rationing.
Did you know The Sustainability Centre used to be HMS Mercury? Travel back in time to WW2 discovering how the site was used and learn about all manner of things from rationing to clothing in our interactive show and tell experience!Curriculum topics available: Plants, Animals including humans, Everyday materials, Living things and habitats, Life Cycles, Minibeasts, Habitats, Forest School.
Discover all things mini-beasts! Conduct a comparative study between two different habitats, pond and woodlands, look at their place in the food chain, learn their life cycles and identifying factors. Or you can focus on a range of natural materials and their uses or plants on our botany day!Curriculum topics available: Natural resources.
Take a tour of our site and see how we've used natural materials and resources, then get hands-on with our building activities using chalk to make a rammed earth wall, cobb to build an earth oven and sand bags to create a bridge!Curriculum topics available: Map and atlas.
Develop your map skills as part of our orienteering activity. Students will study an OS map of the local area, learn how to use 6 grid references and what the symbols in the key represent. When out exploring the 55 acre site, they will use a compass and understand it works.Curriculum topics available: Materials and recycling, Sustainable living, Renewable Energy, Conservation.
Our exciting new John Muir Residential focuses on conservation tasks, learn about the founder of National Parks and what we can do to help the environment. During day visits focus on renewable energy sources with a trip to a proposed wind turbine site, using anemometers to measure wind speed!We have specialised tutors trained in working with students with Special Educational Needs.
The Sustainability Centre is an environmental education centre with a difference. We focus on teaching about all aspects of sustainability on our 55 acre woodland site, where we work and live, demonstrating sustainable living.
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