Secondary school KS3 learning sessions - Lake District National Park

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Home Learning Educational visits to Brockhole Secondary school KS3 learning sessions

Our Learning Team can’t wait to welcome schools and groups for sessions and visits this academic year!

What’s at Brockhole?

Tutored learning sessions
Stunning gardens and grounds providing the ideal outdoor learning environment
Opportunities for team building and water sports sessions, high rope course challenges and much more!
Orienteering courses and trails in the grounds

Learning sessions

Panoramic landscape view overlooking Wastwater towards Great Gable and surrounding grey fells. Lake and fells framed by the stone lake shore foreground and overhanging tree branches with green leaves

An introduction to the National Park

This talk covers:

The special qualities of the National Park and reasons for its popularity with visitors
Land ownership and management
Tourism facts and figures
Positive and negative impacts of tourism

Tailored to your curriculum requirements and supported by student hand-outs and teacher’s information pack.

Session price: £4.95 per student

Minimum charge: £90

large white country house behind a grass garden, framed by purple garden flowers

Information gathering and question and answer session

Spend time at Brockhole, or in the local area, gathering information for your projects and then have a 30 minute question and answer session with the Learning Coordinator.

Session Price: £50

frog in pond amongst reeds

The Geography Jigsaw

Brockhole is a microcosm of the National Park. This structured exploration of the grounds, attractions and visitor information provision gives students an insight into the impacts and management of tourism.

Session length: 1.5 hours

Session price: £4.50 per student

Minimum session charge: £90

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Book an educational visit

Our Brockhole Learning Team can help you with group visits to Brockhole on Windermere. To contact the Learning Team and book your place, please visit our Educational visits to Brockhole page.

Educational visits to Brockhole