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Take your class to meet the wildlife of Britain at Wildwood and help them learn more about the natural world around them.

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Take your class to meet the wildlife of Britain at Wildwood and help them learn more about the natural world around them.   Wildwood offer educational activities suitable for all ages through workshops, hands-on discoveries, guided tours and meet an animal sessions. All activities can be tailored especially for your school to make sure you get the most out of your visit. To support these activities there are free national curriculum linked teacher resources, which are available to download and can be used in advance of your visit, on the day or for follow-up work.   Please email us or call 01227 209 620 to discuss your requirements and we will design a day to suit you!   BOOK A VISIT   »   Highly recommended by teachers   "Very knowledgeable and experienced staff who have a great rapport with the students. Students are able to learn key information relating to the course content and then put this into practice. It was perfect, could not improve on this"   The graph above displays the average levels of satisfaction from 1103 schools for education activities delivered by Wildwood between 2013 to 2017.   But don't take our word for it, come along and find out for yourself!     Early Years and Primary Activities Exciting workshops - Our workshops are run by enthusiastic, experienced educators and are supported by a wonderful team of volunteers. All members of the team have been DBS checked and are experienced in the national curriculum. Our programmes cover themes including habitats, animal homes, skeletons, nocturnal animals and more. Guided Tours - Wander through the woods to visit a selection of our animals at their enclosures. Led by a member of the education team, you can gain insider knowledge and get to ask questions. Tours can be focused on specific topics upon request or we can arrange a bespoke tour to ensure any particular areas of interest are included. Meet an animal - Get up close and personal with our animals. Meet an animal of your choice (subject to births, seasonal behaviour, etc). Gain insider knowledge and get an opportunity to ask questions to find out even more. Hands-on discovery - Get hands-on with a variety of our animal artefacts including antlers, animal skulls and animal skins. Children can touch, share their ideas and ask questions about the items. Can you guess what is inside our feely boxes? Items can be changed to suit a certain topic if required, so please ask.   FIND OUT MORE   »     Secondary Activities Find out about woodland ecology, habitats, food chains, adaptation and conservation. Try invertebrate sampling (sieving leaf litter) and see how each animal forms part of the woodland food web. Go inside for a Super Sleuths workshop - a raucous team competition based on teeth, skulls, antlers and other artefacts - and understand mammal adaptation from first hand examples. CSI: Who Killed Mr Bunny is one of our most popular KS3 workshops. It brings together adaptation, food chains and practical problem solving as students try to solve the woodland murder mystery. There are many more topics on offer and we can design a day just for your specific needs! See our full list of secondary activities.   FIND OUT MORE   »     New A level & International Baccalaureate Activities Wildwood holds a unique collection of British wildlife to inspire and enthuse your students. We include the use of our woodland flora and fauna and the animals in our collection within our expanded education activities. Our knowledgeable, experienced tutors will help you get the most from your day, and we can tailor sessions for your specific requirements and to meet your awarding body's programme.   Activities are offered at Wildwood for woodland ecology sampling and at a local coastal site including dune systems and rocky shores, where students can gain experience of surveying coastal environments.    Wildwood have also developed a special 2 day programme, where students get to experience survey methods, collect their own data and use the data collected in statistical tests with our tutors instruction. Tests offered include: Simpson's Diversity Index, Lincoln Index, Spearman Rank, Chi-Sq, Mann-Whitney or Student's t-test.   FIND OUT MORE   »   Higher Education Activities Wildwood is able to offer college and university groups unique opportunities to expand students' learning.  Having first hand experiences in species conservation, captive management and breeding, breeding for release, zoo management, ecological restoration and rewilding, small mammal trapping and other ecological surveying,  means staff can provide students with a blend of academic and applied, experiential knowledge on such topics.     Whilst there is an institutional focus on the conservation of British species, staff are able to cover such topics potentially using either UK or overseas based project examples.  Sessions can be developed to the bespoke needs of the college or university.    BOOK A VISIT   »   Email us or call 01227 209 620 to check availability and to discuss your visit, dates can get booked up fast, so please book as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Kind regards, Dr Angus I. Carpenter Education Team Manager

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Act today to help rescue baby dormice!

With your support we can save them before it's too late!

We need your help to save baby dormice before it's too late!

Due to a particularly long, hot summer, dormice are more likely to have a second litter later in the year. This means that more babies are being born too late to become strong enough to survive hibernation over the cold, harsh winter. With the expert care they need at Wildwood, they will be given the very best possible chance of survival.   Your donation could mean the difference between life and death…. What is more these babies will have a chance of life and could help to prevent the extinction of one of Britain’s most threatened animals.    DONATE   »     New scientific evidence shows the perilous state of Britain’s dormice that now, without our help, face almost certain extinction. Despite being one of our most endearing woodland mammals, its desperate plight has alarmed scientists and the situation is getting much worse!   But there is still hope!   Wildwood's dedicated experts and volunteers have worked for over 15 years to create a programme that can reverse this extinction. But we cannot do this alone and with your help we can give the dormouse a chance to repopulate the British countryside.   DONATE   »     Wildwood has bred more than 170 dormice and has successfully reintroduced them to woodlands where they have previously become extinct   Wildwood does a huge amount of work to save the dormice and as a member of the National Dormouse Captive Breeders Group, Wildwood manages the national studbook to ensure only the healthiest, unrelated dormice are released into the wild.   Your donation will be used to prevent the extinction of this wonderful species and will be put towards rescuing these beautiful creatures from their tragic struggle for survival.    DONATE   »   We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our wonderful supporters who have already made a donation to this appeal, with your help we can give the dormouse the very best possible chance of survival.   Kind regards, Peter Smith Director Wildwood Trust

Wildwood Trust Herne Common Herne Bay Kent CT6 7LQ   Registered Charity No: 1093702 Wildwood Kent: 01227 712 111 Wildwood Devon: 01404 822 188 appeals@wildwoodtrust.org   To no longer receive emails from us please follow this link

Act today to help rescue baby dormice!

With your support we can save them before it's too late!

We need your help to save baby dormice before it's too late!

Due to a particularly long, hot summer, dormice are more likely to have a second litter later in the year. This means that more babies are being born too late to become strong enough to survive hibernation over the cold, harsh winter. With the expert care they need at Wildwood, they will be given the very best possible chance of survival.   Your donation could mean the difference between life and death…. What is more these babies will have a chance of life and could help to prevent the extinction of one of Britain’s most threatened animals.    DONATE   »     New scientific evidence shows the perilous state of Britain’s dormice that now, without our help, face almost certain extinction. Despite being one of our most endearing woodland mammals, its desperate plight has alarmed scientists and the situation is getting much worse!   But there is still hope!   Wildwood's dedicated experts and volunteers have worked for over 15 years to create a programme that can reverse this extinction. But we cannot do this alone and with your help we can give the dormouse a chance to repopulate the British countryside.   DONATE   »     Wildwood has bred more than 170 dormice and has successfully reintroduced them to woodlands where they have previously become extinct   Wildwood does a huge amount of work to save the dormice and as a member of the National Dormouse Captive Breeders Group, Wildwood manages the national studbook to ensure only the healthiest, unrelated dormice are released into the wild.   Your donation will be used to prevent the extinction of this wonderful species and will be put towards rescuing these beautiful creatures from their tragic struggle for survival.    DONATE   »   We would like to say a huge thank you to all of our wonderful supporters who have already made a donation to this appeal, with your help we can give the dormouse the very best possible chance of survival.   Kind regards, Peter Smith Director Wildwood Trust

Wildwood Trust Herne Common Herne Bay Kent CT6 7LQ   Registered Charity No: 1093702 Wildwood Kent: 01227 712 111 Wildwood Devon: 01404 822 188 appeals@wildwoodtrust.org   To no longer receive emails from us please follow this link

Important - Membership Fees

Join now to save money!

Are you or a friend thinking about joining Wildwood Trust as a member and enjoying unlimited entry for both our Kent and Devon parks? After a price freeze for the last four years, there will be a small increase to our membership fees coming into effect this November. Current Wildwood members will NOT be affected by the price rise and will carry on paying the SAME monthly fee as when they joined. JOIN THIS MONTH to avoid the price increase and enjoy unlimited entry to both Wildwood parks. Why not become a member when visiting us this half-term holiday? As a Charity every penny we receive from memberships goes towards the upkeep of our parks, looking after our animals and our conservation projects to save some of Britain's most threatened species.

Wildwood Trust, Herne Common, Herne Bay, Nr Canterbury, Kent CT6 7LQ Registered Charity No. 1093702   FOLLOW US Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thewildwoodtrust Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WildwoodTrust Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thewildwoodtrust   ABOUT WILDWOOD Wildwood Trust opened in 1999 as a centre of excellence for the conservation of British wildlife, and was established as a registered charity in 2002. Wildwood is Kent's best British wildlife park. Home to over 200 native animals, past and present and set in 40 acres of beautiful ancient woodland where visitors can see bears, wolves, bison, deer, owls, foxes, red squirrels, wild boar, lynx, wild horses, badgers and beavers plus many more. As one of the leading British animal conservation charities in the UK, Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain's most threatened wildlife. Wildwood Trust have taken part in many ground-breaking conservation programmes to date, which include, saving the water vole, using wild horses to help restore Kent's most precious nature reserves, bringing the extinct European beaver back to Britain and returning the hazel dormouse & red squirrel to areas where they have been made extinct.

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