Primary School Tours and Workshops

3rd to 6th Class

This free two-part programme is designed to explore energy in action and learn about the importance of sustainability and biodiversity. Students will complete a 3-hour Nature’s Power: Energy in Action Workshop at Brigit’s Garden followed by a 1.5-hour Climate Heroes in Action Workshop in your classroom. Both workshops link with several strands of the SESE curriculum and support school environmental initiatives. Kindly funded by SSE Airtricity.

Part 1 Nature’s Power: Energy in Action Workshop at Brigit’s Garden

See Nature’s Power description.

Part 2 Climate Heroes in Action (Classroom Workshop)

Step into the shoes of a climate hero and discover how your everyday choices can change the world! What is sustainability? Why is biodiversity important? Where does plastic come from and what happens to it when it gets recycled? Circular economy, what? Students will use critical thinking to explore these topics in a student-centred and engaging way.

In this hands-on classroom workshop, students learn how ecosystems keep our planet healthy and uncover the urgent challenges posed by climate change. Through interactive activities and team challenges, they’ll design real-world action plans to protect nature and create a more sustainable future—starting right in their own classroom.

Up to 4th Class

Summer Adventures

Our most popular summer school tour, getting hands-on with nature in the Celtic Gardens and natural habitats. Interactive activities include pond-dipping and mini-beast investigations at the lochán, games and sensory activities in the woodlands, making ‘smelly potions’ in the herb gardens and much more. For up to 3rd class, the programme finishes with a parade through the Celtic Gardens with drums and shakers.

Autumn Adventures

Experience the turning of the season as autumn brings fruits, nuts, berries and leaves of red and gold. This interactive workshop offers many autumn activities: a scavenger hunt in the woodlands that enables discovery and exploration by the students, making arts and crafts with gathered natural materials, and learning about the Celtic traditions around Samhain/Halloween. It finishes with a Samhain parade through the Celtic Gardens.

Spring Adventures

Discover signs of spring in the Gardens and woodlands in this interactive, exploratory workshop. Seasonal activities include seed sowing in the polytunnel and understanding about how plants grow. Learn about the stories of St Brigit, her special cross and her magic cloak, and finish with a parade led by ‘St Brigit’.

3rd to 6th Class

An exciting, innovative workshop for 3rd to 6th Class. What is energy and how do we use it? What is renewable energy and why is it important? How can we reduce our energy use? Explore all these questions and more with this interactive, hands-on programme, led by experienced education guides.

Students can investigate solar, hydro and wind technologies on site and generate their own energy. Activities and games explore energy concepts from food chains to energy use and insulation, and help build awareness about energy use and how to reduce it. Students leave with greater understanding of all these issues and with ideas to take back to school and their families. The workshop links with several strands of the SESE curriculum.

3rd to 6th Class

An engaging and exciting 3 hour workshop of outdoor wilderness and survival skills, based on a forest school approach.

• Orienteering – learn how to navigate and follow a map, using nature navigation tools and a compass
• Fire lighting
• Den making
• Tool use
• Foraging
• Camouflage and animal tracking
• Nature connection games and activities

Senior Infants and 1st Class

Guzzler the puppet can visit your school to help the children learn about energy and sustainability in a fun and engaging way in this free workshop. Through a series of games and activities they learn where our energy comes from, why and how we save energy.

One of our experienced facilitators will visit your school and deliver this free workshop.

Kindly sponsored by Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI).

3rd to 6th Class

Children learn about energy and sustainability in this free interactive workshop through classroom games, online quizzes and experiments. It covers several strands of the science curriculum such as energy and forces as well as environmental awareness and care.

One of our experienced facilitators will visit your school and deliver this free workshop.

Kindly sponsored by Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland (SEAI).