Our Learning Team offers a range of workshops for Key Stages 1 & 2, along with specially tailored GCSE local history study days.
We offer free preliminary visits for teachers. If you would like help planning your own visit our learning team is happy to support you.
Education Group Membership entitles groups to free entry to National Trust properties.
Activities for KS1 and KS2
Woodland discovery rambles
1½ - 2 hours £2.75 per child
A guided walk exploring the natural environment using the senses. Activities include:
- Bark rubbing
- Smelly cocktails
- Meet a tree
- Quiet-noise challenge
- Bug hunt
- Nature cards
Animals at Ickworth
Half day £2.75 or full day £3.25 per child
Find out about the diet, habits and habitats of the wild animals who live at Ickworth. Woodland walk, animal facts game, craft activity and choice of additional activities.
Art in the Park
Half day £2.75 or full day £3.25 per child
Be inspired by Ickworth’s park and gardens to explore and create art!
- Nature art
- Hanging sculptures
- Group collage
- Journey sticks
- Wishing tree
The Olympic Games
Full day £3.25 per child
Gather evidence to stage your own ancient Greek Olympic Games. Explore Ickworth’s Olympic frieze, make a banner to represent your city-state, join in the opening parade, compete in a game, prize giving ceremony with olive branches.
Mops and manners
Half day £2.75 per child
Discover Victorian Ickworth. Explore the housekeeper’s handling collection, follow the servants’ footsteps around Ickworth’s hidden staircases and passages and investigate life ‘upstairs’.
Wartime Ickworth
Full day £3.25 per child
Experience the life of an evacuee at Ickworth. Take part in a variety of activities to find out what it would have been like for the real evacuees who lived in the basement of the Rotunda during the Second World War.
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