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Lotherton House with gardens and a pathway surrounding

Lotherton Topic Days

Lotherton is a grand country home set in a large estate, surrounded by beautiful gardens and Wildlife World zoo. We provide activities to inspire your pupils’ creativity and learning in a varied and wondrous setting. These can include a yoga warm up, investigating and exploring, giant drawing and object handling.

Workshops are adapted to suit a number of related topics that you may be covering in school.

See some ideas below or ask us if there is something else you would like.

  • Nature Detectives
  • Seeing the Seasons
  • Houses and Homes
  • Materials and Patterns
  • Around the World

School workshops are available for SEND schools and can be adapted to suit your needs.

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Who eats who?

This school workshop at Wildlife World uncovers who eats who – the different ways animals eat, hunt and survive in their habitats.

Living in the Dark

Pupils will explore how nocturnal animals are adapted to living in their dark environment. You will also experience our Nocturnal House at Wildlife World

The Woodland Hunt workshop

Explore where the wild things are on the estate whilst listening to stories of fabulous creatures that live in the woods. Search for the tiniest creatures that live there and have a go at creating a minibeast mansion.

Adaptation Investigators

Pupils discover how animals are adapted to increase their chances of survival in the wild, through their behavioural or physical/anatomical traits.

All About Penguins!

This school workshop focuses on one of our favourite species at Wildlife World, Lotherton, penguins!

The First World War hospital at Lotherton

Discover the local history of Lotherton as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital during the First World War.

Habitats Workshop

Discover the wide variety of animals living in different habitats in this school workshop at Wildlife World, Lotherton.

Classification Workshop

This school workshop at Wildlife World on classification allows pupils become ‘mini-zoologists’.

Rainforests

Explore Wildlife World and discover the wonderful world of rainforests in this interactive school workshop.

WW2 Evacuation Role Play

Immerse yourself in a significant point of British history and evacuate your pupils back in time to the Second World War at Lotherton.

Introducing Florence Nightingale and her friends

Meet the young Florence Nightingale, cousin to the Gascoigne family of Lotherton. With their owl puppets, pupils will listen to Florence’s stories and more.

Signs of the Seasons

Discover signs of the seasons whilst exploring the Lotherton and Temple Newsam estates. Observe and learn about the seasonal changes that take place.

Estate Explorers

Embark on a guided nature walk and learn about the wilder side of Lotherton and Temple Newsam Look for evidence of feeding, tracks and trails around out Estates.

Plant Life Cycles

Investigate the local plantlife and explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of plants.