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Brigit's Garden
Brigit's Garden offers cross-curriculum visits relating to the natural environment and Irish heritage, linked to key strands of the SESE curriculum. Facilities include:
- Four unique gardens representing the Celtic festivals, featuring sculpture, traditional crafts and native planting
- 11 acres of woodlands, meadows and wetlands
- A stone chamber, thatched Roundhouse and ring-fort
All programmes are activity-based using interactive and observational games, sensory awareness, music, drama, arts and crafts. Schools can now avail of three seasonally themed visits over the year appropriate for children from infants to 3rd class or 4th to 6th classes. Activities are held mainly outdoors with indoor options in wet weather. The children will be in groups of 15 -20 and the activities will be age-appropriate.
Key Themes
- Habitat investigations: woodlands, pond, hedgerow, meadow and vegetable garden
- Food chains and webs
- Mini-beasts in water and on land
- Where our food comes from
- Celtic heritage and the Celtic seasonal festivals
Additional topics such as composting and recycling, gardening skills, rocks and soils, and plant life and growth can be included on request.
Preparatory and follow-up activities available on request.
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