Education & Group Visits

Welcome to our education page. In the future we're hoping to increase the size of this section of the website to give you a more in depth look at the different educational services we can provide.

Education is one of the primary aspects of zoos in this day and age so this area is important to us all here. At the moment we can provide the following services:

Educational Sessions

The following is a list of classroom based curriculum related topics we can offer for visiting groups:

• Minibeasts
• Habitats
• Lifecycles
• Classification
• Teeth, Diet and Poo
• Conservation
• Movement
• Colour & Pattern, Camouflage

We can also adapt the minibeast session for the younger children to have a slant towards other topics. This can be helpful particularly for younger children.

We're also able to cover a range of zoo based tours. These range from 30 minutes to an hour in duration.

• Big Cat Safari
• The DZP Tour
• Habitats
• Movement

Alternatively if you can't see what you are looking for here we can discuss the education needs of you and your group when you book your visit. Given plenty of time prior to you group visit we can come up with a session for you.

Maximum 30 people per session. This includes teachers and other adults if you are a visiting school group.

For prices see below

Interested? Call us on (01752) 837645 and ask for Geoff McCarthy. Alternatively e-mail us at geoff.mccarthy@dartmoorzoologicalpark

Group Visit Prices*

School, Nursery, Student £4.50

Child £5.95

Adult £7.95

OAP £6.95

Children under the age of 4 years are admitted free of charge. A group must contain at least 10 people. 1adult admitted free of charge with every 6 paying children. We require 1 week's notice for a booking. If you are interested in booking educational services for your visit please give us as much notice as possible particularly if you are wanting your group to visit during the summer season. All group visits and education sessions must be pre-booked with us.

Education Session Prices

If you are wishing to book education sessions there is an extra charge

£20 for the first session booked.*

£10 for any further sessions booked.*

Maximum 30 people per education session. This includes teachers and other adults if you are a visiting school group.

Interested? Call us on (01752) 837645 and ask for Geoff McCarthy. Alternatively e-mail us at geoff.mccarthy@dartmoorzoologicalpark

Outreach

We can also come out to your school as well. Again we can offer the majority of the topics listed above in this service. Minibeasts is by far our most popular session here too but again we can tailor sessions to your needs.

Interested? Call us for a quote on (01752) 837645 and ask for Geoff McCarthy. Alternatively e-mail us at geoff.mccarthy@dartmoorzoologicalpark

*All prices are subject to change.

Risk Assessments

At the moment we don't have a set of risk assessments for you to download or to send out for group visits. However we do recognise this is a vital step when planning any group trip. To this end we can offer a pre-visit token for up to 2 adults and 2 children which can be used by your group to come into the zoo to do any risk assessment work or planning. These can only be requested once your group has booked to come into the zoo. Tickets are limited to 1 per booking.