Rosemoor offers school groups a wide variety of exciting environments to explore including the Formal Garden, Fruit and Vegetable garden, Lady Anne’s Garden and woodland. We welcome all students including those with special educational needs.
Rosemoor’s new education facility, The Peter Buckley Learning Centre, is now open to be used by visiting school groups. This exciting new resource offers two large classrooms, toilets and a large veranda where we can do many outdoor activities whatever the weather.
The building has been designed with the environment in mind with large windows and roof glazing to maximise daylight, an efficient log burning boiler which will use logs from the Rosemoor estate and a water recycling system to harvest rainwater from the roofs.
In addition, a teaching garden terrace and the surrounding landscape will be developed over the next 12 months to provide further spaces for learning and enjoyment.
Schools can use this new facility during guided school visits. Activities will be taught here and the building can be used for lunch and as a base from which to explore the garden. Alternatively schools can always use ‘The Brash’, our picnic play area, weather permitting!
Secondary school visits
For years 7 - 13 we are able to offer tours of the nursery, talks on climate control and plant propagation, and the garden may be used as an aspiration for art and photography projects.
If you have any requests for topics that would enhance learning with a visit to the Garden please get in touch. We will do our best to assist and develop workshops for your specific needs. Topics do not need to be restricted to horticulture and botany but can cover a wide range of subjects including ecology, geography, art, design, maths, English and science.
For examples of workshops we deliver to primary schools and more ideas for secondary school visits see our Workshops for Schools Spring & Summer 2012 brochure (2.5MB pdf).
Primary school visits
From ages 3-11 we offer an innovative, interactive programme to stimulate learning.
More on primary school visits to Rosemoor