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.
Slapton Ley Field Centre is located on the Start Bay coast in South Devon and is surrounded by Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve. The Ley is the largest natural freshwater lake in the South West and is separated from the sea by Slapton Sands, a barrier beach. The 214 hectare reserve has been managed by Slapton Ley for over 50 years as an “outdoor laboratory” for education and conservation, and boasts a rich mosaic of habitats including ancient and coppiced woodland, freshwater lake and stream, shingle ridge and rocky shore. The centre offers visitors of all ages the opportunity to experience a unique outdoor learning environment in combination with specialist teaching and facilities.
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
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Expert Tuition -
Free Wi-Fi -
Full Board Accommodation -
Hot and Cold Drinks -
In Course Transport -
Picnic Lunch
Opportunities to attend this course
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Mon 16, March 2026 13:00 - Wed 18, March 2026 12:00