These courses are designed to immerse your students in ecology including biodiversity, ecosystems and completing a mini fieldwork investigation. These courses will not be specification led as the group will be made up of a mixture of specifications.

Rhyd-y-Creuau is a popular activity centre in North Wales, based in a beautifully restored Georgian country house from the early 1800s. Located in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia) National Park, the centre provides direct access to some of the UK’s most breathtaking natural landscapes, surrounded by cascading rivers, wooded hillsides, and glaciated valleys, From rocky coastal shores to upland ecosystems, the local environment supports a wide range of curriculum-linked studies.

Course outcomes

Our skilled field teachers will direct students’ enthusiasm towards real-life ecological scenarios, and the collection of field data encouraging them to:

  • Acquire and develop practical scientific competencies and sampling skills
  • Increase ecological understanding and make wider synoptic links related to specification content and beyond
  • Immerse themselves in a stunning, natural location to observe and be curious, asking questions about the ecosystems, plants and animals they encounter

Small Group or Individual Student Days are designed to bring together individual students, home educated students, schools with small cohorts, or students who were unable to attend a residential or alternative trip. By bringing groups together you do not have to pay for a minimum number of students.

These courses are for groups of 9 or fewer students from any one school.

To ensure the safety of all participants on our day and residential small groups courses, any child, or group of children from an individual school or home-education group, aged under 18 years must be accompanied by a responsible adult, eg teacher or parent. Other adult learners eg mature students or those who have recently turned 18 are welcome to join the course.

The price of the course includes:

  • Accommodation in shared rooms (single rooms for adults where available but cannot be guaranteed
  • Food from dinner on day 1 to packed lunch on day 3
  • In-course transport to fieldwork sites during the course
  • All course teaching
  • Equipment, wellies and waterproofs if required
  • Accompanying staff and adults are charged at half the student rate plus VAT

What's Included

  • Expert Tuition
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Full Board Accommodation
  • Hot and Cold Drinks
  • In Course Transport
  • Picnic Lunch

Opportunities to attend this course

  • Mon 09, March 2026 13:00 - Wed 11, March 2026 12:00

    Location
    Rhyd-y-Creuau
    Price
    £148.333 - £298
    Tutor
    Field Studies Council Staff