School visits to RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Essex

Get gardening in this immersive environment and discover an inspiring garden where children can let their imagination grow

We are now fully booked for educational guided workshops for the 2025/2026 academic year, however still have dates available for self-guided educational visits. Please email [email protected] for further information.
 
Bookings for Autumn Term 2026 will open on Friday 6 March and bookings for Spring-Summer 2027 will open in September.
 
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Educators’ Evening Event

Join us for our free event on Tuesday 3 March between 4-6pm and discover some of the ways the RHS can help your school connect with nature and get gardening. Find out more about our school visits, teacher CPD, work experience for pupils and funding.

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School workshops

Our exciting workshops offer hands-on sessions for children at Foundation Stage, and in Primary and Secondary schools (KS1-4), including those with special educational needs (SEN). Download our brochure to see the diverse range of workshops we offer for schools at Hyde Hall.


PRIMARY / SECONDARY SCHOOL BROCHURE
Hyde Hall school workshop brochure

About visiting the garden

Set across 360 acres, RHS Garden Hyde Hall is an inspirational garden that offers a diverse range of habitats for school groups to explore. With fantastic facilities including our purpose-built Clore Learning Centre and Learning Garden, Global Growth Vegetable Garden, Dry Garden, meadows and woodlands, Hyde Hall is the perfect place to bring your pupils to learn about plants, wildlife and growing your own. All our activities are interactive and practical with a focus on learning through play, exploration, working together and asking questions.

Guided and self-guided visits

As well as our guided visits, with workshops for Primary and Secondary schools, we also have a range of resources for self-guided visits covering many parts of the school curriculum including art, numeracy and the natural world.

Guided visits

Guided visits

Bring your students for a guided school visit and enjoy educational workshops in our hands-on learning spaces

Guided visits
Self-guided visits

Self-guided visits

Use our resources to enjoy the self-guided part of your visit or to bring smaller groups of children

Self-guided visits

Our learning facilities

Outside is our Learning Garden where students can explore the story of plants, from cereal crops to pollinators, as well as discover how plants have adapted to grow in a variety of habitats.

Learning Garden

Outside is our Learning Garden where students can explore the story of plants, from cereal crops to pollinators, as well as discover how plants have adapted to grow in a variety of habitats.

The Clore Learning Centre is our purpose-built education building, which opened in 2018. This designated studio space can cater for up to 90 students at any time and opens up onto the Learning Garden.

Clore Learning Centre

The Clore Learning Centre is our purpose-built education building, which opened in 2018. This designated studio space can cater for up to 90 students at any time and opens up onto the Learning Garden.

Outside is our Learning Garden where students can explore the story of plants, from cereal crops to pollinators, as well as discover how plants have adapted to grow in a variety of habitats.

Learning Garden

Outside is our Learning Garden where students can explore the story of plants, from cereal crops to pollinators, as well as discover how plants have adapted to grow in a variety of habitats.

The Clore Learning Centre is our purpose-built education building, which opened in 2018. This designated studio space can cater for up to 90 students at any time and opens up onto the Learning Garden.

Clore Learning Centre

The Clore Learning Centre is our purpose-built education building, which opened in 2018. This designated studio space can cater for up to 90 students at any time and opens up onto the Learning Garden.

Outside is our Learning Garden where students can explore the story of plants, from cereal crops to pollinators, as well as discover how plants have adapted to grow in a variety of habitats.

Learning Garden

Outside is our Learning Garden where students can explore the story of plants, from cereal crops to pollinators, as well as discover how plants have adapted to grow in a variety of habitats.

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Things to consider before your visit

  • All of our programmes include outdoor experiences in the garden
  • Please ensure that the students and accompanying adults are dressed sensibly for the weather, with suitable footwear and appropriate clothing
  • It is advisable that pupils visiting the garden have up-to-date tetanus inoculation, particularly if a hands-on gardening activity is planned
  • Hyde Hall garden map (1.1MB pdf)

All pre-booked educational visits are free of charge. If you feel able to give a donation to the RHS to help support our educational work this would be much appreciated; we ask you to consider a donation of £3 per child for your visit.

Frequently asked questions

Supporting resources

Free resources from RHS Campaign for School Gardening to support your visit

Gardening basics and growing skills

Getting started

Growing for wellbeing

Gardening basics and growing skills

Getting started

Growing for wellbeing

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Booking a visit

To arrange a school visit or if you have any queries, please contact the Schools Team at Hyde Hall by email or phone and they will be happy to answer your questions.
 

Call: 01245 402115
Email: [email protected]

Helping your school get to RHS Gardens 

The RHS Travel Grant Scheme helps eligible state-funded schools with coach costs for a free educational visit to their local RHS Garden.

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Get involved

The RHS is the UK’s gardening charity, helping people and plants to grow - nurturing a healthier, happier world, one person and one plant at a time.