Animal Workshops

Plain Text Version of our 2010-11 School Workshop Pack ... flash version here

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School Workshop Pack 2010-11

In this pack you will find that we have set out 5 fun workshops based around the National Curriculum. The sessions are suitable for children of all ages between Key stages 1 and 2. Every session includes an interactive animal encounter as well as educational activities.

With every workshop comes an animal adoption! This means that the class will receive a poster of the adopted animal, a certificate of adoption, and a fact file on the animal to put up in the class room for everyone to see!

At the end of the fun workshop we are also able to provide you with follow up material!

Body Parts

(Session 1 - £5 per child)

This session involves a 1 hour interactive talk with our animals. In the second hour we either do junk modelling to make a poster or make snake or spider models!

It covers the following areas of the curriculum:
Key Stage 1

Science Sc2:

• 2a, Recognising and comparing the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals
• 2e, How to treat animals with care & sensitivity

Art:

• 4a, Visual & tactile elements, including colour, pattern & texture, line & tone, shape, form & space

Health Education:

• 3b, To maintain personal hygiene

Habitats

(Session 2 - £5 per child)

This session involves a 1 hour interactive talk with our animals. In the second hour we will make a posters of different habitats. This encourages teamwork, as the pupils will be in groups of 3-5.

It covers the following areas of the curriculum:

Key Stage 2

Science Sc2:

• 5a, Ways in which living things and the environment need protection
• 5b, The different plants and animals found in different habitats
• 5c, How animals and plants in two different habitats are suited to their environment

Geography:

• 2c, Use atlases and globes, maps and plans at a range of scales

Art:

• 1c, Collect visual and other information (for example, images and materials) to help them develop their ideas.

Food Chains

(Session 3 - £5 per child)

This session involves a 1 hour interactive talk with our animals. In this talk we focus around animal diets and how food chains are vital for our eco-systems. We also illustrate a food chain with our animals! In the second hour we colour in hand puppets, following this we play a game relating to the session content. This promotes physical activity and teamwork.

It covers the following areas of the curriculum:

Key Stage 2

Science Sc2:

• 5b, The different plants and animals found in different habitats
• 5d, To use food chains to show feeding relationships in a habitat
• 5e, How nearly all food chains start with a green plant

Travelling Round the World Animal Encounter

(Session 4 - £2.50/child)

This session focuses on the geography side of the National Curriculum. The workshop is a 1 hour Animal Encounter, we bring a very big map of the world and mark out where we will be exploring via the animals we bring to the workshop! During the workshop we talk about the habitats that the different animals live in and where they come from.

Key Stage 2

Science Sc2:

• 5a, Ways in which living things and the environment need protection
• 5b, The different plants and animals found in different habitats
• 5c, How animals and plants in two different habitats are suited to their environment

Geography:

• 2c, use globes, maps and plan at a range of scales

Animal Detectives

(Session 5 - £5 per child)

This session is a very fun workshop! It involves a 1 hour interactive talk with our animals, in the second hour we hand out workbooks with picture scenarios and lots of animal profiles to share! The children need to work out what happened in the picture, what kinds of animals are involved, and why! The children are left to their own devices to either work together to solve the problems or work on them alone!

Key Stage 2

Science Sc2:

• 5a, Ways in which living things and the environment need protection
• 5b, The different plants and animals found in different habitats
• 5c, How animals and plants in two different habitats are suited to their environment

Sensory Workshop

(Session 6 - £2.50 per child)

This is a very interactive 1hr long session. We focus around what different animals feel like and talking about the animals is kept to a minimum. The sensory workshop is best suited for special needs schools as this can really benefit children with disabilities. We can provide either our jungle sounds, or calm music in order to stimulate aural development, and can also decorate the environment.

Health and Safety!!!

We don't bring furry animals into schools unless we are told that none of the pupils have an allergy to fur.

We have a 1 adult to 10 pupil, ratio, so for an average class of 30 we would ask for 1 supplementary teacher as there will be 2 of our members of staff doing the workshops.
We are covered by public liability insurance and we have an accidents and incidents report.

All of our staff, are CRB approved.

There is a minimum charge for 25 children on workshops 1-5, and a minimum charge for 10 children on workshop 6.

Price List:

• 2 Hour workshops £5 per child + £30 travel charge
• 1 Hour workshops £2.50 per child + £30 travel charge

At the end of the workshop we ask for a review sheet from the teachers, this is so that we can make the workshops better every time!

Animal Adoptions

A school animal adoption is a great way to bring everyone together to support a good cause. An adoption pack includes:

• Personalised certificate of adoption for the class
• An informative profile of your adopted animal
• A poster of the animal to put up in the class room
• A visit from the Jungle Fortress Animal Sanctuary to one of the school assembly's so that everyone can meet the animal!

We charge £85 for this adoption pack please contact us or see our website on who is available for adoption!'