Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust

The partnership between Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) and The Crown Estate, which was originally set up as a joint initiative in 2017, has to date provided environmental education for a significant number of school children and adults.

Following the introduction of a new security boundary by the Home Office and Thames Valley Police close to our Environmental Centre, we have paused our onsite activities while we work with BBOWT to identify potential alternative sites.

For further information about BBOWT’s activities, please visit their website here.

Adult activities
Family and child only activities
Nature Tots
Young Rangers
Teen Rangers
Forest school site hire
Primary schools

Adult activities

Throughout the year we run a huge array of events for adults. These range from bat walks and willow weaving to nature journaling and forest bathing.

To find out more and book, select an activity below:

The Silver Studded Blue butterfly resting on a dandelion flower.

Family and child only activities

Throughout the school holidays we run a number of family and child only based activities such as self-led wildlife trails, seasonal Day Camps, or guided activities focusing on birds, moths, butterflies and more.

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Nature Tots

Nature Tots is a monthly activity for children aged 18 months to 4 years.

Focusing on outdoor, adventurous and nature-based play, children will take part in games, activities and crafts based on a theme.

Each session is one and a half (1.5) hours.

To find out more and book, select a date below:

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Young child surrounded by green foliage using binoculars.

Young Rangers

Young Rangers is a monthly activity for children aged 8 to 11 years.

Each session is filled with age appropriate fun activities that focus on helping to manage and look after local wild spaces as well as learn skills to become a wildlife warrior.

Each session is 2 hours.

To find out more and book, select a date below:

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Teen Rangers

Teen Rangers is a monthly activity for young people aged 11 to 17 years.

Each session is filled with age appropriate fun activities that focus on helping to manage and look after local wild spaces as well as learn skills to become a wildlife warrior.

Each session is 2 hours.

To find out more and book, select a date below:

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Five young people walking amongst the trees on a wildlife trail.

View of a large Oak tree with a group of Young People sitting on the grass.

Forest school site hire

The Environmental Centre forest school area at Windsor Great Park is available for hire to teachers and forest school leaders with groups, other organised groups like the Scouts and Guides or, for forest school leader training sessions.

Sessions are available Monday – Friday (excluding November and December), and usually run for half a day.

Facilities include:

Firepits
Seating areas
Toilets
Free parking
A basic forest school kit (available as an extra)

A half day session costs £60 per session.

To find out more and book a pre-visit please email BBOWT.

For anyone wishing to lead Forest School programmes, the team also facilitate essential training:

Forest School Leader Training

Primary schools

Primary school children can take a journey of discovery with a range of programmes for EYFS (Early years foundation stage) and KS (Key stage) children.

The programmes include:

Full day or half-day activities for pre-booked groups (January – October)
Skilled staff to lead and engage the children’s heads, hearts and hands
Imaginative activities that link with Early Learning Goals
(Science, geography, literacy and numeracy)

A classroom inside the Windsor Great Park Environmental Centre.

Primary school programmes

Windsor woodland animal adventure – EYFS and lower KS1

Children are invited by Windsor Woodmouse to have an adventure in the woods and learn the secrets of how wild animals survive.

Exciting hands-on activities build confidence in being outdoors and help children understand what animals need to stay alive.

Follow the paw-print puzzle to find out who is who in the woods, make mini shelters and a sticky souvenir card to take home.

Plush Badger toy hidden in a small den of twigs and green foliage. Young children in the background.

Spectacular seasons – Reception and KS1

Choose from Spring into Spring, Summer Fun and Getting Ready for Winter.

Throughout the seasons, learn about the important changes taking place in the natural world.

Be a bird, a squirrel or bee and explore through hands-on activities, role play and games how plants and animals adapt and adjust to the ever-changing environment.

Young Child wearing a floral hat and red cardigan holding sticks.

Minibeast marvels – EYFS, KS1 and KS2

Meet a medley of minibeasts and learn what makes them different from the other animals that live in Windsor Great Park and why so many of them love to live here.

Early Years options include: bug hunts; stories; learning to care for the little creatures; counting minibeast body parts; and creative fun.

Options for KS1 & 2 include: minibeast identification (keys); lifecycles; pollination; food chains; and adaptations.

Group of young children raising their hand to answer a question..

Habitat safari – KS1 and KS2

Investigate the creatures big and small that live in our surrounding meadow and woodland.

Search for minibeasts with sweep nets and bug-hunting kits, and search in the skies and trees using binoculars.

Use field guides and keys to identify and classify your creatures. Learn about life cycles, food chains and the adaptations of animals to these different habitats.

Nature Detective Training is an alternative option – hunt for clues and solve a nature mystery in the woods.

Young child looking at a butterfly in long grass.

Pretty plants and buzzy bees – KS1 and KS2

Learn about the lifecycle of plants, find seeds and discover how they are dispersed.

Make a paper pot, sow some seeds that will flower for food for the bees (watch them grow at school). Learn about the parts of a plant, play team games to identify some common plants, dissect flowers to find eggs and pollen, and then dress up as a bee to pollinate a flower.

Two young children wearing a bright yellow daffodil head dress.

Intriguing trees – Upper KS1 and KS2

Deciduous or Evergreen?

Follow our tree trail to unlock the secret names of trees using a key and discover just how different tree seeds can be.

Meet a tree, learn about its lifecycle and play the Food Factory Game to understand how trees make their own food and provide oxygen for all animals.

Plant a tree seed to grow your very own. Identify the animals that live in the woods, from canopy to leaf litter and deep underground.

A group of children being led and accompanied by some adults on a bark chipped path in the forest.

Group of young children sitting on logs surrounded by trees. Adults are supervising.

Prices and booking information

Group price: There is a minimum price of £225 per group (£140 for a half day session)
Child price: £8 per child (or £5 per child for half-day programmes)
Maximum number: 30 children
Programme times: Vary but typically run from 10am – 2.30pm

View the BBOWT programme

If you would like to discuss your topic choices and dates please email or call a member of the Wildlife Trust team.

Email BBOWT

+44 (0)7493 649667

How to find Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust

By road

Find us on the A332 between Windsor and Ascot.

Sat Nav code: SL4 2BY

What 3 Words: noon.income.tend

When driving from either direction look out for a sign to the Environmental Centre
Turn in to Windsor Great Park and approach the white gates which will open automatically
Car parking is at the end of Lime Avenue just before you reach the Environmental Centre

Coaches

Information coming soon.

By rail

The nearest stations are:

Windsor and Eton Riverside from London Waterloo
Windsor Central from London Paddington via Slough
Ascot
Virginia Water

A taxi will be needed to complete your journey which should take around 20 minutes.