Primary School Visits
Whether you are just visiting YWP for a school visit or adding an education session on to your day, your students are guaranteed to have an amazing educational trip at YWP.
Choose your education sessions
Why not incorporate an award-winning education session into your day with us? We have lots of fantastic sessions to choose from, for all Key Stages, from Foundation stage to Key Stage 2. A lot of our education sessions are linked to the national curriculum, click the tabs below to pick the relevant Key Stage!
Take a wild Educational visit to the award-winning Yorkshire Wildlife Park! Explore Project Polar, home to the largest collection of Polar Bears in England! Engage in national curriculum-linked interactive activities and get hands-on with incredible creatures and unique artefacts.
Spot some of the worlds most endangered animals including Amur Leopards and Tigers.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park is the perfect fun and safe environment for your next educational expedition and our dedicated award-winning team will take the stress out of planning your trip!
School visits at YWP are self-guided (under 16’s must be supervised at all times), although education sessions can be booked to enhance your visit.
Education Outreach Session
On Park
Online Session (Video Call)
Aren’t Animals Amazing
During this general fun, hands on education session students will gain a greater appreciation and understanding of animals. They will observe and touch a range of animal artefacts such as skulls, claws, feathers and live invertebrate animals.
*No reptiles are used in this session.
Animal Detectives
Children will help our animal ranger solve the problem of their missing item? They will get clues to work out which animal is the culprit. This is a hands-on session with lots of guess work and animal bio-facts for the students to handle.
*No live animals are used in this session.
RAINFORESTS
In this session we focus on tropical rainforests. We look at the different layers and which animals can be found there through a group sorting activity. Students will learn more about some of YWP’s rainforest animals and have the chance to handle a range of animal bio-facts and live animals.
Bear Necessities
Linking with YWP’s Project Polar and the largest group of Polar Bears in England! Join us for our Bear Necessities session to learn about polar bears through a range of interactive activities. Students will learn about the Polar Bears at YWP, adaptations, their Arctic habitat, threats they face in the wild and what we can do to help. Students will get to handle a replica Polar Bear skull and claws during this session.
Food Chains and Diet
This session includes a group food chain activity where the children will make simple food chains. Examples of animals who are carnivores, herbivores, omnivores will be used. It involves using a range of animal bio-facts and the use of live animals.
Animal Groups - Fur, Feathers & Scales
Students will identify and name a range of animals from different animal groups. Animal bio-facts will be used to group animals in various ways and there will be a chance to handle live animals.
Aren't Animals Amazing
During this general fun, hands on education session students will gain a greater appreciation and understanding of animals. They will observe and touch a range of animal artefacts such as skulls, claws, feathers and at least one live animal.
Roars, Paws & Claws
During this hands-on education session students will gain knowledge of our four big cat species and the Polar bears. They will learn about their special features such as their paws, claws, whiskers and fur and how these help them survive in the wild. They will observe and touch a range of animal artefacts such as replica skulls, claws and paw prints. *No live animals are used in this session.
World Habitats & Adaptations
Students will learn about desert, polar, savannah and rainforest habitats. They will learn about some of the animals in our collection that live in these various habitats and what they need to survive there. The session includes being hands on with a range of animal bio-facts and live animals
Creepy Crawlies
This session is all about bugs! Full of fascinating facts all about our giant exotic creepy crawlies through lots of hands-on interactive activities. There is also the opportunity to meet and handle some real bugs.
Woodland Wonders
BRAND NEW FOR SUMMER 2024
Learn all about the native plants and animals that you might see in the woodland areas of Yorkshire Wildlife Park. This interactive session takes place in our outdoor woodland classroom and includes a minibeast hunt. A great opportunity to introduce the National Education Nature Park & related topics to your students.
Number of children: 20 max.
*Only available in the summer term
*No live animals
Did You Know?
BRAND NEW FOR SUMMER 2024
This interactive session is packed full of fun animal facts. Using a range of animal biofacts, props & fancy dress your students will discover more about the amazing animals at YWP. This session involves lots of audience participation and an opportunity for students to ask the experts!
*Only available in the summer term in our woodland classroom
*No live animals
Virtual School Visit
Bring the excitement of Yorkshire Wildlife Park into your classroom through Skype. This involves a Q&A session with the YWP education team live from Project Polar, home to the only Polar Bears in England! Alternatively, you can book our ‘Aren’t Animals Amazing’ session, brought to you live from the Wildlife Discovery classrooms. This Q & A session also includes looking at some of our bio-facts and even live animals. This session can be booked as a pre- or post-visit experience or as a standalone session.
Wildlife Foundation Assemblies
Book a school assembly on behalf of the Wildlife Foundation, a great way to kick start fundraising campaigns in school! Choose from our Bear Necessities assembly where pupils will learn all about polar bears and join our polar bear pledge or book our Wildlife Foundation assembly to learn more about the work of the Foundation & the animals they support. Contact us to find out more.
RAINFORESTS
In this session we focus on tropical rainforests. We look at the different layers and which animals can be found there through a group sorting activity. Students will learn more about some of YWP’s rainforest animals and have the chance to handle a range of animal bio-facts and live animals.
Bear Necessities
Linking with YWP’s Project Polar and the largest group of Polar Bears in England! Children will learn about Polar Bears through a range of interactive activities. Students will learn about the Polar Bears at YWP, their adaptations, their arctic habitat, threats they face in the wild and what we can do to help. Students will get to handle a replica Polar Bear skull and claws during this session.
Endangered Animals & Conservation
Children will learn about the animals in our collection and conservation projects YWPF are involved with. It includes a sorting activity, looking at animal bio-facts from the endangered animals in our collection, as well as items seized by HM Revenues and Customs. Reasons why animals are in danger will be discussed.
*This session is aimed at Year 4+
Aren’t Animals Amazing
During this general fun, hands on education session students will gain a greater appreciation and understanding of animals. They will observe and touch a range of animal artefacts such as skulls, claws, feathers and at least one live animal.
World Habitats
The session will focus on African Savannahs, polar, desert and rainforest habitats and some of the animals that live there. This session involves a habitat game activity, animal bio - facts and live animals.
Teeth and Eating
Will involve a group food chain activity to show how energy flows through a food chain with all associated terms used. Involves bio-facts including skulls, teeth and interesting examples from the YWP.
*No live animals are used in this session.
Animal Adaptations
This session focuses on several animals in YWP’s collection and looks at their special adaptations. Students will get to handle a range of animal bio-facts and live animals.
Animal Groups & Classification
In this session students will learn about and use a simple classification key as part of an activity. Students will get to handle a range of animal bio-facts and live animals.
Adaptations & Evolution
This session is aimed at year 6 students who are currently learning about the topic of evolution. The session focuses on animal adaptations, exploring why some animals have changed so much over a long period of time and how fossils have given us clues to the past. Links are made to Charles Darwin and the theory of natural selection and palaeontologist Mary Anning. *No live animals are used in this session.
Creepy Crawlies
This session is all about bugs! Learn some fascinating facts all about our giant exotic creepy crawlies through lots of hands-on interactive activities. There is also the opportunity to meet and handle some real bugs.
Woodland Wonders
BRAND NEW FOR SUMMER 2024
Learn all about the native plants and animals that you might see in the woodland areas of Yorkshire Wildlife Park. This interactive session takes place in our outdoor woodland classroom and includes a minibeast hunt. A great opportunity to introduce the National Education Nature Park & related topics to your students.
Number of children: 20 max.
*Only available in the summer term
*No live animals
Did You Know?
BRAND NEW FOR SUMMER 2024
This interactive session is packed full of fun animal facts. Using a range of animal biofacts, props & fancy dress your students will discover more about the amazing animals at YWP. This session involves lots of audience participation and an opportunity for students to ask the experts!
*Only available in the summer term in our woodland classroom
*No live animals
Wildlife Foundation Assemblies
Book a school assembly on behalf of the Wildlife Foundation, a great way to kick start fundraising campaigns in school! Choose from our Bear Necessities assembly where pupils will learn all about polar bears and join our polar bear pledge or book our Wildlife Foundation assembly to learn more about the work of the Foundation & the animals they support. Contact us to find out more.
After School STEM Club
The YWP education team will come into your school and run this program across 5 weeks. Through a range of 1 hour long practical activities explore the fascinating world of bats, work in teams to investigate the building skills of birds, become an animal tracker and save endangered species, and put your detective skills to the test to solve the question - whose poo?
Virtual School Visit
Bring the excitement of Yorkshire Wildlife Park into your classroom through Skype. This involves a Q&A session with the YWP education team live from Project Polar, home to the only polar bears in England! Alternatively, you can book our ‘Aren’t Animals Amazing’ session, brought to you live from the Wildlife Discovery Classrooms. This Q & A session also includes looking at some of our bio-facts and even live animals. This session can be booked as a pre or post visit experience or as a standalone session.
