Home Educators Day
We are excited to announce our Home Educator Day will be held on Wednesday 13th May. We will be hosting workshops and drop-in sessions offering children who are educated at home a chance to explore the zoo and meet our education staff and volunteers.
Drop in session: Curious about conservation?
Age range: All
Time: 10:30 - 11:30
Location: Madagascar Studio (Location is visible on the Chester Zoo app)
Cost: Free
Meet us for a chat and a chance to explore some of our brilliant educational artefacts. We will have four themes to explore on the day, and our educators will be on hand to answer questions and explain more. This is an ideal opportunity for your young people to be curious and discover how they can help some of the endangered species we are highlighting.
Table themes: Big Cats, Rainforests, Uk Wildlife and Palm oil
Please note this is an informal drop-in session.
Choose your workshop
Amazing Animals
Age Range: 5 to 7 years old
Time: 11:30
Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Location: Conservation Education Hub
Cost: £2 per child (ticket to the workshop includes 1x adult admission)
Animals are amazing – they come in all shapes and sizes, move in different ways and eat different things. In this workshop, we will describe the characteristics of living things and compare common groups of animals.
We will have a range of artefacts to explore during this workshop, allowing your children to see the differences and similarities of groups of animals. This will be an opportunity to chat and explore together.
If you are a member of the zoo and wish to book onto this workshop, please click here.
Conservation Animation
Age Range: 7 to 11 years old
Time: 13:00
Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Location: Conservation Education Hub
Cost: £2 per child (ticket to the workshop includes 1x adult admission)
This workshop offers a brilliant way for your home educated children to become budding film directors.
What makes big cats such impressive carnivores? What is it like for the people who live alongside large carnivores? Join us and create a story about tiger conservation using stop motion animation. This is an ideal opportunity your young person to work in a group with other home educated children or to simply let out their own creative side by working individually. This workshop is an ideal mix of knowledge of animals, literacy and ICT skills.
If you are a member of the zoo and wish to book onto this workshop, please click here.
Evolution and Adaptation
Age Range: 11 to 14
Time: 14:30
Duration: Approximately 45 minutes
Location: Conservation Education Hub
Cost: £2 per child (ticket to the workshop includes 1x adult admission)
Join us for a chance to understand how the environment has shaped the animals you see around our zoo. Using skull models and artefacts, we discuss how natural selection has shaped the evolution of our amazing species.
Then you have a chance to get creative. Can you design your own creatures, giving it features to survive in different habitats? From mountain ranges to deserts, how does the habitat affect the adaptations of your creature?
If you are a member of the zoo and wish to book onto this workshop, please click here.
Meet up - Jaguars
Age Range: All
Time: 15:30 – 15:50
Location: Spirit of the Jaguar
Cost: Free
Join us for a meet up at the Jaguar house. This will be a chance to ask us questions and find out more about this amazing species. Do you want to find out more about their adaptations or discover more about their natural habitat? Now is your chance to ask. Please note this is an informal drop-in session.
Important information:
Ticket requirements: To visit us on Home Educator Day, you will require an entry ticket to the zoo, which can be an educational rate ticket bought through the link on this page, or member entry.
To be eligible for this rate, an adult ticket can only be bought alongside a child ticket, with a maximum of one adult for each school-aged child attending (e.g. 2 adults with 2 children). Any additional adults must purchase a full price ticket to the Zoo.
Age to attend workshops: Workshops are divided into different age groups to let us use activities and vocabulary suited to that age. Whilst they are a guideline only, to ensure the smooth running of the workshops, we request that older or younger children do not attend workshops intended for a different age group if they might disrupt the rest of the group.
Adult supervision: All children must be accompanied by an adult in our drop in sessions, meet ups and workshops. For workshops, one adult ticket is included per workshop, per child ticket purchased. Please note that due to the room capacity we ask that only one adult remain for a workshop.
We require adequate supervision of children at all times around Chester Zoo, and discounted educational rate adult admission is granted under this understanding.
Workshop Size: We have a maximum capacity for 15 children per class with their accompanying adult.