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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.

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

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.

Chris uses ancient Irish folklore to teach students real biodiversity-related skills.

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.

Nature Literacy is an essential life skill. The head and the heart need to make a connection to form a lifestyle that leads to positive ecological and climate action.

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

Anne is an experienced primary teacher with a lifelong passion for geology, archaeology, history, heritage and the environment. Visits can incorporate fieldtrips to local sites of geological, archaeological historical or environmental interest.

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.

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.

Have you ever seen a volcanic bomb, a fossil dinosaur bone or a mammoth’s tooth? Have you ever glimpsed a falling star, and would you like to hold one in your very own hand? Each Crate of Curiosities workshop is a treasure trove of heritage wonders, many of which were collected by Vincent during his twenty years of worldwide travels working onboard expedition cruise ships. They are an active learning mini mobile museum.

Angela is passionate about bringing history to life for children, by focusing on everyday life and local stories. Sessions are animated with visual sources and an interactive approach to helping pupils find their voices and develop their skills as Young Historians.

Come back in time with me to discover all about Irish history and archaeology. Together we will learn all about the amazing Irish heritage through fun and interactive presentations, original crafts, and a true hands-on approach to bring history back to life directly to your class. All of my workshops are relevant to many strands of the SESE Curriculum and can be customised upon request.

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.

Thomas is an ecologist who aims to help students discover and map the biodiversity in their schools and work with them to create new biodiversity areas.