Home-education visits at RHS Garden Bridgewater

Home-educated children are invited to take part in one free workshop per academic year on our dedicated Home Educator days.

Our free workshops offer exciting, hands-on sessions for home-educated children from 4 to 11 years. Through interactive learning, these sessions explore a range of topics from how plants grow, to where our food comes from, to how plants can help us look after the planet.

How to book a place on a Home Educator Workshop

On the day

• Your workshop will begin at either 10.30am or 1pm, as stated in your confirmation email, and will last approximately 90 minutes
• On arrival, please book in with a member of our Visitor Services Team in the Welcome Building, showing your booking reference number. You will then be directed to where you need to wait in readiness for your workshop. If you have booked an afternoon workshop session and are already in the Garden, please ensure you are back at the Welcome Building no more than 15 minutes before the workshop is due to start
• Attendees who are more than 10 minutes late to the session will not be admitted to the learning session or garden
• All children must be accompanied by an adult (this is limited to one adult per child, per workshop)
• When not in their booked workshop, each child attending a workshop and their accompanying adult may enjoy entry to the Garden as part of their day
• Workshops are tailored to children of a specific age range. Other children and siblings who do not fulfil the age requirement for that specific workshop will not be permitted
• Home-educated children are entitled to take part in one pre-booked educational workshop per year

Please note: If you are operating as a home-school group of 16 students or more and have Public Liability Insurance, then you are welcome to book one of our guided or self-guided school visits, which take place during term-time. 

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.

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