Education
Twycross Zoo has a professional Education Department whose task is to interpret the zoo for schools, universities and the general public. This ranges from giving talks, writing lively information packs, and supervising research to designing and producing signs and graphics for the zoo. In 2009 they taught 32,500 students.
Twycross Zoo offers lively interactive educational sessions. Enabling students to observe, discover and experience the living world. The zoo allows pupils to develop skills and concepts about our world and our responsibilities to it. All educational sessions are linked to the national curriculum or specific syllabi. Educational sessions for children from reception age upwards.
Twycross Zoo has achieved the standards to claim the Learning outside the Classroom Quality Badge, one of only a few zoos in this country to have the award. This will assure teachers and trip organisers that we reliably provide a high quality teaching and learning experience and will facilitate access for organisers with little time to arrange such trips, increasing access to the Zoo for more children.
Twycross Zoo’s Education Department Vision: To positively impact all people within Twycross Zoos sphere of influence.
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