Speisialtóir a Lorg

Fiona is a third-generation traditional musician and is a music educator in schools with a lifelong interest in local history. On her visits, Fiona aims to emphasis the values and traditions that endure through the oral heritage of music and song and can facilitate both single and multi-day visits.

Virtual visits include a pre-recorded video followed by a one hour live, interactive online class over zoom

History & Geography brought to life with lots of hands-on learning through crafts, videos, and story

Forest School is a fantastic way to get children excited about the world outside their door, to awaken their curiosity, inspiring them to ask ever more questions and look for ever more answers.

History is brought to life through tailor-made archaeology programmes and interactive workshops for primary school children.

Carol is passionate about our natural world where ‘nature is the teacher'. Being outside helps us to connect with nature and the passing seasons, where we can engage with our cultural heritage through natural crafts, song, stories and folklore, games and place-based learning. Carol offers forest school programmes, nature walks and traditional craft sessions.

Mary is an experienced primary school teacher, beekeeper, gardener, musician and wildlife enthusiast. On a visit to your school Mary will engage and inspire pupils to learn about, appreciate and care for their own local environment.

Órla’s virtual workshop Drawing from Nature explores and investigates Hedgerows as habitats through visual art and outdoor learning.

Órla offers engaging, hands-on workshops and projects that link nature, art, and creativity. In each visit Órla uses the natural environment to stimulate children’s curiosity and creativity through visual art and outdoor learning. .

Lucy Bell of Growing Wild provides sessions that work with children to create their own school garden, involving them in the design, set up and creation. Lucy also runs child led Forest School programmes in schools and woodland settings involving ropes, tools, nature craft, and games to name a few

Michael’s workshops bring the world of Irish wildlife, birds, woodlands, bogs, sea-life and mini-beasts directly into the classroom for the children. He can custom design the activities to suit the needs of each class but his workshops usually include engaging and illustrated talks, school ground field-studies and fun worksheets and games.

Heather’s visits help pupils learn about the local environment and discover the flora and fauna of the local area, including the school grounds.

Eamonn's visits will explore local history and geography in Co. Longford . Children will visit locations in county Longford close to their home and throughout the county.

Maura Brennan is a forest school practitioner with a background in traditional craft ,environmental art and plant medicine.

Mysterious Monuments lets explore your locality and discover what ancient monuments are to be found, what stories can they tell us about life long ago! Who? What? When?

Áine is passionate about opening children's horizons to what's in their locality, what mysterious monuments stand hidden behind the ditches and those ivy clad walls.

Tara provides interactive workshops which examine the flora and fauna of local habitats and promote knowledge, enjoyment and appreciation of the natural environment. The visit can be tailored to the needs of the school as well as the habitats that are surrounding the school.

Explore the Burren and learn about how to investigate place through fun activities and games on our Burren Wild Child field trips.

As an Irish Times Best Selling author of historical fiction for children Caroline Busher has a passion for bringing Irish Heritage to life.

Nature discovery workshops based on the SESE curriculum. Workshops can take place in your own school grounds or in an alternative habitat area.

Sonia’s workshops will focus on the natural world and our heritage crafts and the connection between them. All workshops will involve hands-on and creative activities.

Get hands-on with history and explore archaeology! Frankie’s workshops bring the past to life – investigating the lives of ‘Children in the Past’ through artefact handling, living history and ancient craft activities. Frankie specialises in child-centered, inclusive learning and her workshops support the key strands of the SESE Curriculum from Early Peoples (Stone Age) through to Viking, Norman and Medieval units, as well as the STEM Curriculum.

As a tour guide and genealogist Trudy helps the children put together their family and community story, in particular looking at life in post war Ireland when most of their grandparents and great grandparents were their age.

Workshops are both interactive and hands-on practical; facilitating imagination and curiosity with a strong emphasis on play, shared learning and group activities. Field trips & cuairteanna as Gaeilge.

Ted has over 30 years delivering primary school workshops on all to do with the plants and trees of Ireland.

Through interactive storytelling and a selection of hands-on activities Annette Corkery (one half of Creative Ardagh) can bring a range of topics to life. Learning from our mythology, local history and natural heritage the Scéalta Beo (Living Stories) sessions put an emphasis on restoring the balance: building a sense of place, connection to the outdoors and protecting our biodiversity for future generations.

Michael is passionate about organic fruit and vegetable growing, and has a keen interest in ecology, the environment and biodiversity.