Educational Visits at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve

Your visit at Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve will be run by LWT Education Team, a highly skilled and experienced team of environmental education specialists who pride themselves on providing exciting and innovative programmes that inspire children and young people about the natural world. We run Education visits at a variety of sites across the region (Brockholes Nature Reserve, Mere Sands Wood, Bolton ERC, The Hive and Lunt Meadows), as well as outreach sessions, Forest School programmes, Forest School training and outdoor learning CPD training for schools/ groups.

When booking a school visit led by our Education team, your school will have the use of 'Hootlet Roost' - the Classroom in the Learning Centre. You will have an enthusiastic and experienced member of the Education team dedicated to your group throughout your visit.

At Lunt Meadows Nature Reserve, we are able to take school groups of up to 35 children (maximum) each day for our Education Officer Led Education visits. 

Previously heavily farmed arable land the reserve now functions as a flood storage reservoir for the Environment Agency. As well as a wetland nature reserve, Lunt Meadows is a fascinating archaeological site home to one of just a few surviving Mesolithic settlements.

The variety of habitats and fascinating history means we are able to support a range of learning outcomes at Lunt Meadows. We are able to run Education Officer Led Visits for a wide variety suitable for all age ranges from Early Years Foundation Stage to A-Level and beyond.

We offer a wide variety of workshops for educational visits including Habitats, Minibeasts, Pond Dipping, Stone Age, Rivers and Environmental Art. The workshops available at Lunt Meadows are listed further down the page, by age group. 

All our workshops are fully risk assessed and suit and complement the goals of the National Curriculum. 

School groups can arrive at Lunt Meadows from 10am and leave around 2pm-2.45pm.

We will tailor your visit around your arrival and departure time.

In terms of accessibility, wherever possible we try to make our activities as inclusive as possible. However, due to the nature of the terrain at Lunt Meadows, we wouldn’t currently recommend this site for wheelchair users. This is because of the uneven paths and terrain which would make it extremely difficult for wheelchair users to move around the site for the workshop activities.

If you have a wheelchair user in your group, you may be interested to know that our team also run school visits at Brockholes Nature Reserve (Preston); Mere Sands Wood (Rufford) and The Hive at Moss Bank Park (Bolton), and these sites are more accessible.

We have coach/minibus parking available at Lunt Meadows. 

The cost of all our Education Officer led visits can be found on our how to book page
 

There are a variety of workshops suitable for children in the Early Years Foundation Stages: 

• Minibeasts
• Pond dipping (from late April to October only)
• Environmental Art
• Seasons
• Sensory woodland adventure

The full list of workshops for all age groups can be seen on our Workshops page.

There are a variety of workshops suitable for Key Stage 1: 

• Habitats
• Minibeasts
• Pond dipping (from late April to October only)
• Environmental Art
• Seasons
• Sensory woodland adventure
• Plants for KS1

The full list of workshops for all age groups can be seen on our Workshops page.

There are a variety of workshops suitable for Key Stage 2: 

• Habitats
• Minibeasts
• Pond dipping (from late April to October only)
• Environmental Art
• Stone Age (full day)
• Rivers
• The water cycle
• Plants for KS2
• Sensory woodland adventure

The full list of workshops for all age groups can be seen on our Workshops page.

There are a variety of workshops suitable for Key Stage 3: 

• Ecosystems
• Quadrat sampling
• Freshwater Invertebrate Sampling (from late April to October only)
• Rivers

The full list of workshops for all age groups can be seen on our Workshops page.

These workshops are suitable for Key Stage 4: 

• Quadrat sampling
• Wildlife sampling
• Freshwater Invertebrate Sampling (from late April to October only)

The full list of workshops for all age groups can be seen on our Workshops page.

These workshops are suitable for A Level and University: 

• Wildlife sampling

The full list of workshops for all age groups can be seen on our Workshops page.