Key Stage 2

Schoolchildren looking at a worm
Working with schools

Key Stage 2

We have developed an exciting range of programmes linked to the new curriculum. All are designed to inspire learning about wildlife, plant growth and habitats through a mixture of enquiry-led learning, games and observation.

Our Key Stage 2 programmes are based at Lower Smite Farm where we have three large indoor classrooms and a variety of wildlife habitats including woodland, meadows and ponds.

To book a visit email marissa@worcestershirewildlifetrust.org or call 01905 754919.

If you have specific needs, please give us a call to discuss how we can tailormake a programme for your class.

The children absolutely loved the trip - The content was pitched just right for Year 3 Science. We would highly recommend your trips and look forward to visiting again soon!
Year 3 teacher
St Kenelms School

Our Key Stage 2 programmes

Rocks & Soils Investigation Unit

Meet Lithic Liz, a geologist on top secret missions who needs your class' help!

  • Find and classify a set of rocks that are being hunted down by robbers!
  • Discover about the different types of rocks and make your own using sweets.
  • Investigate how soil is made and dig down into the earth using soil augurs to find out what soil we have on the farm.

Lower Smite Farm, September - May. 

Keep the learning going after your trip by hiring one of our fossil kits. Use our earthenware clay moulds with your pupils to look at how fossils are made. A guidance video by local artist, Maggie Hobbs, shows you how to use them. Get stuck in and make your own trilobite, ammonite and dinosaur poo fossils! Its only £25 to hire the kit and it is loaned out for a two-week period (take a look at our fossil-making online resources for more info).

Supports:KS2 Science: Working Scientifically, Rocks & Soils

Habitat Havens

Explore what classification is, how it works and what body parts can help us identify different invertebrates:

  • Work in teams to identify a mystery pond invertebrate. Use dichotomous keys to correctly classify the creature using its body parts. Teams must keep their answers a secret! Pupils will then dress up as their team’s mystery creature and pair up with other groups to try and classify the giant invertebrate in front of them.
  • Head out to investigate a freshwater habitat by pond dipping and classify species using your new found knowledge and our dichotomous keys.
  • Investigate a woodland and meadow habitat to find out what is living there and why. How is it different to the pond?
  • Finish up looking at the minibeasts you have found under our big screen microscope! How are they adapted?

Lower Smite Farm, March - September

Supports:
KS2 Science: Working Scientifically, All Living Things, Animals including Humans, Living Things & Their Habitats 

Plant Power!

A day investigating what plants require in order to survive and how the different parts of the plant help them to do this.

  • Discover how healthy soil is an important requirement of plants for life and how soil conditioner (compost) helps create a healthy soil.
  • Build soil structure from LEGO to see how compost helps roots to find water and nutrients.
  • Find out if compost is helping our veggie beds grow healthy plants, by testing the soil structure.
  • After lunch, learn about the parts of a flower and how they help the plant to make seeds. Dissect a flower and look at the parts up close under our big screen microscope. Then head out to play our pollination game and discover what flowers are best to encourage pollinators.

Lower Smite Farm, April - September

Supports:
YR3 Plants, Design and Technology 

River study

Delivered at Droitwich Community Woods

Explore the River Salwarpe and carry out geographical fieldwork. Make predictions and collect data to answer ‘where is the fastest flow in a straight river channel?’

  • Test your geographical vocabulary by building the River Salwarpe from rope in teams. Who will create the catchment area the fastest?
  • Find out how erosion and deposition works in a river and what the differences are between canalised and natural channels.
  • Undertake a field sketch identifying features created by erosion and deposition.
  • Make predictions and collect data on width, depth and speed to discover where the fastest flow is in a straight river channel. Analyse your data and see if you can find patterns. What might they mean?

This is a half-day session only from 09.30 – 11.30. If you have two classes in your year group you can book an additional session from 12.30 – 14.30.

Supports:

KS2 Geography