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Read Landscapes for Key Stage 2 (KS2) at the Discovery Centre

A path through the Onny Meadows.

KS2 Geography and PE Activities

21st Century Navigation

Use a hand-held GPS unit to navigate your way around the Onny Meadows whilst testing your map-reading skills. Then link with other curriculum subjects by selecting one from:
Secret Stones - Locate and discover the origins of five different Shropshire rock types.
QCA SoW Links: Science Unit 3D
Home Sweet Home - Match animals with their ideal homes.
QCA SoW Links: Science Unit 4B
Availability: March to November
Maximum group size: 70
Price: see standard price structure below

Investigating Rivers

Find out about the River Onny: Where is it? Where does it go? What does it look like? Do some field sketching and detective work, solving clues to discover why the river changed its course over time.
QCA SoW Links: Geography Unit 14
Availability: March to November
Maximum group size: 70
Price: see the prices information on this page.

Orienteering Challenge

Test your map-reading skills and knowledge of orienteering with games and small-scale map practice. Get fit as you find clues hidden in the Onny Meadows to solve our orienteering puzzle.
QCA SoW Links: PE Units 20 and 30
Availability: March to November
Maximum group size: 70
Price: see standard price structure below

Receive a 20% discount if booked with Orienteering Antics outreach workshop.

Secret Hills Exhibition

Take a fascinating journey through Shropshire's past: meet a mammoth, explore an Iron Age roundhouse and take off with our film panorama that drifts across the local landscape like a hot air balloon. Focus tasks will also challenge the children during their time in the exhibition.

Free to any school booking a led activity, otherwise £2.75 per child aged 5 or over; 1 adult to every 10 children free of charge, additional adults £3.25.

Prices

The standard price structure for the led activities is:

  • 25 children or fewer – £75
  • 26 to 35 children (or one class, whichever number is larger) – £100
  • 36 to 50 children – £150
  • 51 to 70 children – £200

Special offer!
Book a return visit for your school to take place before June 2013 and receive a 25% discount.

Further Information and booking

You can download a leaflet from this page containing the information held herein. For further details of individual activities, to discuss your individual requirements and/or to make a booking, please contact us via the details on this page.

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Contact

Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre
01588 676060
Shropshire Council
Visitor Economy
Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre, School Road
Craven Arms
Shropshire
SY7 9RS
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