Educational School and SEN Experiences - Enrichment Talks
Bringing our reptiles to you can help solve those logistical problems of taking your class off campus and at the same time, we can cover many topics of the school curriculum; bringing the curriculum to life for your learners.
We have outstanding reviews for our sessions from nurseries and first years through to Colleges, youth groups and in October 2018, we did enrichment talks with Sir David Attenborough in Waterstones for his Life On Earth event.
School Visits – range of school activities from animal encounters to art.
Nursery --- For ages 2 years to 4 years old.
SEN Sessions -- for children and adults focussing on colours and textures.
College Lectures – from animal classification to the husbandry of exotics.
Our aim is to structure the educational sessions to what learners are currently studying. With our insects and reptiles coming from all over the world.
Here are a few examples:
Rainforests:
Food chains:
Camouflage and survival:
Countries| Habitats: deserts, jungles and temperate woodland.
Evolution and adaptation:
Life cycles: Both insects and amphibians go through dramatic changes before their end form
Diets: Of our many different animals.
Minibeast talks: focusing on bugs and insects
Reptile only talks: (which include snakes tortoises and lizards)
The full combo: of reptiles, amphibians and insects.
We adapt to be age appropriate for the learners and give them chance to interact with the animals with support from friends, teachers and peers.
It is a great equal opportunity for personal growth, development and confidence building while learning about nature.
Nursery:
This is a wonderful age group to work with as they have no pre conditioned fear of reptiles or creepy crawlies, are full of curiosity and love new, interesting experiences.
For this age we do bring slightly hardier reptiles and bugs as we understand that at this age motor skills are still developing.
With sessions on habitats, mini beasts, rain forests, even dragons and dinosaurs.
Please contact us to discuss your needs and what you desire and we do our best to make it all happen.
Our aim is for the young ones to have up close encounters and hands on fun with the reptiles which hopefully continues in life with an interest in reptiles and the natural world around them.
SEN:
We believe everyone should get the chance to meet our animals, with their amazing shapes, colours and textures, they amaze visual learners and children and adults with different abilities and needs. For these sessions we bring some of our slower and heavier bodied animals.
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DBS Checked: E1009496842
Risk Assessment: Please ask if you request our risk assessment documents when in the booking process and we can send it through.
Parent Permission Slip For Schools
Animal Activities License No. 24/15537/AWEXHI
20th April 2024 until 19th April 2027
Full Public Liability Insurance:
Cliverton Policy: CLIV001404ET
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Julie Watts: Thank you so much for the Reptile Handling session at Ingfield Manor School. We booked the session to fit it with our ‘Fairy Tales & Dragons’ theme and Tom made this work perfectly, talking about the animals ‘armour’ and pointing out the spiny scales on the reptiles’ backs. Tom brought 5 amazing animals to show our class of nine children all of whom have neurological motor impairment. Tom was brilliant, speaking to the children at a totally appropriate level and showing them how to touch the animals. The children all went home with photographs of the visit and clearly enjoyed sharing the experience with their families. Fabulous!
