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Visits to Schools
/ Colleges & Pre-schools
 
 I am able to offer a wide range of
workshops designed to enrich and bring to life many areas of the science National Curriculum
from the Foundation Stage right through to Key
Stage 4 and
beyond, using a diverse selection of
fantastic animals as the focus of the sessions. Children
or students will be provided the opportunity, wherever
possible in relation to time and group sizes, to touch or handle some
of these animals, thereby experiencing them in a way they may
never otherwise have the opportunity to.
I am also able to offer
sessions which show some of these amazing animals
REALLY close up!! By using a
video camera's super-macro function and a suitably connected big
screen (interactive whiteboard / projector / large panel TV) it is
possible to show children or students tiny details of the animals
which they would usually NEVER get to see other than on wildlife
documentaries!
Many thanks to Richard Blake, Joint Head of Science at St. Joseph's
Catholic College, Swindon for these pictures
This service is
available to all schools / settings subject to certain conditions
being met to ensure a high-quality experience. These include
the appropriate equipment being available, that one suitably
equipped room can be used for all sessions during my stay in school
and that sessions are of suitable length for the experience being
offered. This type of workshop particularly suits a longer
session and many schools book this service for one class for a whole
morning or afternoon, but larger groups can be catered for in this
way also.
Workshop topics
Whilst many of the workshops are tailored to meet the requirements
of the science curriculum and QCA schemes of work (or associated schemes) for specific year
groups, each topic can be adapted for children of any age,
including Foundation Stage 2 and pre-school children.
Sessions are also available both to schools and pre-schools which provide an emphasis on topics which
by themselves do not necessarily fit into the QCA scheme such as:
Minibeasts Children will
get to meet a wide range of fascinating insects and other
invertebrates up close and personally, and to learn some amazing
facts about them!
Rainforests Children will get the opportunity to meet lots of
animals which live in different parts of the rainforest (and from
rainforests all over the world), from the
dark jungle floor right up to the canopy of the trees!
Wildlife Conservation A
subject close to my heart, children will learn about what it means
for an animal to be endangered and what we can all do to help
those which are, and how to make a contribution to prevent others from becoming endangered.
Finally, sessions can be 'JUST FOR FUN'
and not have a focus on any particular topic, but simply be an
opportunity for children to meet these amazing animals up close and
personally!
Below are just a few examples of the QCA units / topics for which I
can tailor sessions during a visit from
Jonathan's Jungle Roadshow, please click on a topic to read more
information. There are many more, please enquire for details
about how I can cater for your needs in any other
subject areas:
Key Stage 1
Unit 1A: Ourselves
Unit 2C: Variation
Click
here
for more information...
Key Stage 2
Unit 3A: Teeth and eating
 Unit 4A Moving and Growing
Unit 4B: Habitats
Unit 5B: Life Cycles
Unit 6A: Interdependence & Interaction
Click
here
for more information...
Key Stages 3
and 4
There are many topics in Key Stages 3 & 4
for which I can provide tailored sessions, all of which will promote
the understanding of the students using hands-on demonstrations,
many of which also benefit from the use of the video camera and big
screen as described above.
Just some of the Key Stage 3 topics are
listed below, please contact me for further information as to how I
can deliver these topics to your students or to discuss your
specific needs further:
 Unit
7B: Reproduction
Unit 7C: Environment &
Feeding Relationships
Unit 7D: Variation &
Classification
Unit 8D: Ecological
Relationships
Unit
9A: Inheritance and Selection
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