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School visits to 911±¬ÁÏ Garden Harlow Carr, North Yorkshire

Get gardening in this horticulturally diverse setting and discover an inspiring garden where children can let their imagination grow

We are fully booked for guided learning workshops for this academic year.  We still have availability for self-guided visits.  
Please check back in May when Guided Visit availability for September 2026 – March 2027 will be released.

School workshops

Our exciting workshops offer hands-on sessions for children at Foundation Stage and in Primary and Secondary schools (KS1-5), including those with special educational needs (SEN). Download our brochure / leaflet to see the diverse range of workshops we offer for schools at Harlow Carr.

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About visiting the garden

Across 58 acres, 911±¬ÁÏ Garden Harlow Carr offers school groups lots of exciting environments to explore including Meadows, Woodland, Kitchen Gardens and much more. Students can learn about gardening, sustainability, wildlife and the environment – all in exciting, diverse and plant-filled surroundings with fantastic facilities. All our activities are interactive and practical with a focus on learning through play, exploration, working together and asking questions.

Guided and self-guided visits

As well as our guided visits, with workshops for Primary and Secondary schools we have some days reserved for home-schooled families and groups. We also have a range of resources for self-guided visits covering many parts of the school curriculum including art, numeracy and the natural world.

Guided visits

Guided visits

Bring your students for a guided school visit with workshops for schools and home-school groups

Guided visits
Self-guided visits

Self-guided visits

Use our resources to enjoy the self-guided part of your visit or to bring smaller groups of children.

Self-guided visits

Our learning facilities

Sitting alongside the Bramall Learning Centre, the Teaching Garden has a broad range of planting environments and habitats, all helping to form the basis of different types of learning. The Teaching Greenhouse offers another learning space, where tender and exotic crops are grown through the year.

Our Teaching Garden

Sitting alongside the Bramall Learning Centre, the Teaching Garden has a broad range of planting environments and habitats, all helping to form the basis of different types of learning. The Teaching Greenhouse offers another learning space, where tender and exotic crops are grown through the year.

Schools on a guided visit are hosted in the Bramall Learning Centre. The building is a fabulous example of sustainability, generating the equivalent of its own energy, heat and water requirements via a ground source heat pump, rainwater recycling, a sedum roof and solar water heating. With its three classrooms, the centre supports learning for all ages and abilities.

The Bramall Learning Centre

Schools on a guided visit are hosted in the Bramall Learning Centre. The building is a fabulous example of sustainability, generating the equivalent of its own energy, heat and water requirements via a ground source heat pump, rainwater recycling, a sedum roof and solar water heating. With its three classrooms, the centre supports learning for all ages and abilities.

Sitting alongside the Bramall Learning Centre, the Teaching Garden has a broad range of planting environments and habitats, all helping to form the basis of different types of learning. The Teaching Greenhouse offers another learning space, where tender and exotic crops are grown through the year.

Our Teaching Garden

Sitting alongside the Bramall Learning Centre, the Teaching Garden has a broad range of planting environments and habitats, all helping to form the basis of different types of learning. The Teaching Greenhouse offers another learning space, where tender and exotic crops are grown through the year.

Schools on a guided visit are hosted in the Bramall Learning Centre. The building is a fabulous example of sustainability, generating the equivalent of its own energy, heat and water requirements via a ground source heat pump, rainwater recycling, a sedum roof and solar water heating. With its three classrooms, the centre supports learning for all ages and abilities.

The Bramall Learning Centre

Schools on a guided visit are hosted in the Bramall Learning Centre. The building is a fabulous example of sustainability, generating the equivalent of its own energy, heat and water requirements via a ground source heat pump, rainwater recycling, a sedum roof and solar water heating. With its three classrooms, the centre supports learning for all ages and abilities.

Sitting alongside the Bramall Learning Centre, the Teaching Garden has a broad range of planting environments and habitats, all helping to form the basis of different types of learning. The Teaching Greenhouse offers another learning space, where tender and exotic crops are grown through the year.

Our Teaching Garden

Sitting alongside the Bramall Learning Centre, the Teaching Garden has a broad range of planting environments and habitats, all helping to form the basis of different types of learning. The Teaching Greenhouse offers another learning space, where tender and exotic crops are grown through the year.

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Things to consider before your visit

  • All of our programmes include outdoor experiences in the garden
  • Please ensure that the students and accompanying adults are dressed sensibly for the weather, with suitable footwear and appropriate clothing
  • It is advisable that pupils visiting the garden have up-to-date tetanus inoculation, particularly if a hands-on gardening activity is planned

All pre-booked educational visits are free of charge. If you feel able to give a donation to the 911±¬ÁÏ to help support our educational work this would be much appreciated; we ask you to consider a donation of £3 per child for your visit.

Key information for school visits

Supporting resources

Free resources from 911±¬ÁÏ Campaign for School Gardening to support your visit

Gardening basics and growing skills

Getting started

Growing for wellbeing

Gardening basics and growing skills

Getting started

Growing for wellbeing

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Booking a visit

We are fully booked for guided learning workshops for this academic year.  We still have availability for self-guided visits.  
 

Call: 01423 724646
Email: [email protected]
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Helping your school get to 911±¬ÁÏ Gardens 

The 911±¬ÁÏ Travel Grant Scheme helps eligible state-funded schools with coach costs for a free educational visit to their local 911±¬ÁÏ Garden.

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