How to book
To make a booking, please view the guidance on the Essential information for schools page, then use our online booking form.
Our school programme is very popular. We recommend booking at least a 6 weeks in advance.
Early Years and Key Stage 1 at Tring
Explore our workshops for students or download and print activity sheets in advance of your visit.
Our free workshops can accommodate up to 32 students at a time.
School visits, activities and workshops are free, but donations help support our vital work to look after nature and provide our learning programme. There is a recommended donation of £2 per child.
Activity sheets
Our activity sheets encourage close observation of specimens on display. Please download and print these activity sheets prior to your visit. Clipboards are available to use around the galleries.
Self-guided tours
Encourage children to ask questions and discuss animal features with our self-guided tours. The tours are designed for use by an adult leading a small group of children. Please download and print these activity sheets prior to your visit.
Makaton-based gallery trails
Encourage children to ask questions and discuss animal features with our self-guided tours. The tours are designed for use by an adult leading a small group of children.
Workshops
The Glis glis's big adventure
Follow the story of the Glis glis (edible dormouse) that escaped. Discover the animals he meets and help him choose which habitat he should live in.
Specially designed for Early Years, the workshop lasts 30-45 minutes.
Curriculum links:
- communication and language
- understanding the world
- personal, social and emotional development
Useful Museum resources:
Investigating minibeasts
This workshop is available from April to the end of July.
Find, identify and record a range of local minibeasts. Compare the minibeasts found in different microhabitats.
Suitable for Early Years and KS1.
This workshop is held outdoors and requires an adult to student ratio of 1:5. In the event of wet weather an alternative workshop will be offered, to be agreed when booking.
Curriculum links:
- identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats
- identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited
- find out about and describe the basic needs of animals, including humans, for survival
- scientific enquiry skills
Useful Museum resources:
Discovering animals
Explore a range of different animals and compare their features. Discover how and why scientists sort animals into groups and have a go yourself.
Suitable for KS1.
45 minutes
Curriculum links:
- identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
- describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals
- scientific enquiry skills
Useful Museum resources:
Polar expedition
Discover the differences between the Arctic and Antarctic and how animals survive in these extreme habitats.
Suitable for KS1.
45 minutes
Curriculum links:
- identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited
- identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, using micro-habitats
- scientific enquiry skills
Useful Museum resources:
Prehistoric detectives
Delve into prehistoric life and become detectives. Explore what the Earth was like around the age of the dinosaurs, what other animals existed and how we know about them. Then get hands on and investigate real fossils and identify what they are in our challenge.
Suitable for KS1.
45 minutes
Please note there are no dinosaurs on permanent display at Tring.
Curriculum links:
- describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals
- explore and compare things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive
- scientific enquiry skills
Useful Museum resources: