Tatton Tots: Tatton Park Garden Tour

Tatton Tots Garden Visit- “A Self-Led Tour for Tots in the Tatton Park Gardens”

This resource booklet is designed to support and enrich self-guided visits to the Tatton Park Gardens for schools and home educating families working with Early Years aged children. We do have a separate resource booklet for Garden visits available for Key Stage 1 and 2.

It contains relevant curriculum links and exciting opportunities for on-site activities, as well as suggestions for additional activities that can take place after the visit to affirm learning. The document acts as a companion guide to allow you to confidently lead a visit to Tatton Park’s award-winning Gardens and supports you in getting the most from the experience.

The booklet provides a suggested walking route of interesting spaces in the Garden, which can be explored in a single visit or multiple visits. If your school/group has National Trust membership, access into the Gardens is free of charge (parkland vehicle entry still applies), so we feel that this booklet represents an affordable option for a ‘tour guide in your pocket’ and allows you ultimate creative control about when and how you use the content.

Knowing that this could well be your children’s first ‘formal outing’, the guide also contains practical information to assist with planning the visit, including our ‘Terrific Tips for Top Trips’ and preparation pages at the reverse of the booklet. We also offer a free online CPD on our TES shop that covers how to get the most from a visit to a cultural heritage venue, which you may wish to explore in conjunction with this booklet.

Once purchased, the booklet is yours to keep and use time and time again. However, to support us in being able to create more content in the future, we would ask that individual teachers/parents purchase their own booklet wherever possible. A downloadable Garden map is also included in the bundle to help with your visit preparation, but printed copies are available at the Garden Entrance on arrival.

Please also take a look at our other self-led resource booklets, which support a variety of topics and age groups. We hope to keep expanding the selection of resource booklets available, so if you have any suggestions for subject areas, please email us at: tattoneducation@cheshireeast.gov.uk