Book Worms
There are 14,000 books in Harewood's collection. A team of 5 volunteer librarians spend 1000 hours a year identifying and cataloguing each one.
Early Years & Primary Schools
- Learning Team
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Did you know?
Gruesome Facts
Our carnivorous birds such as the Owls, Seriema and Kookaburra’s eat 25,000 dead chicks, 400 kg of ox and pig hearts minced, 50 kg rats, 500 kg adult mice, 300 kg fluffy mice and 500 kg baby pinkie mice a year.
How do you clean a penguin pool?
Each of the penguin pools is drained once a week, cleaned and refilled overnight with natural Harewood spring water.
Good mow-ning!
Between April and October over 5,000 hours are spent cutting the grass in the Gardens and Park.
‘We had a wonderful day that far exceeded our expectations. The workshop was excellent – the children were engaged throughout and thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Harewood is a wonderful resource and the children are truly amazed by the size and wonder of it all!’
Teacher, St Paul’s Primary School, Leeds
Our nursery and primary sessions at Harewood include tours and workshops led by our expert and friendly staff.
For EYFS we place an emphasis on Understanding the World (ELG: The Natural World) and Expressive Arts and Design (ELG: Creating with Materials).
At Primary we emphasise STEM learning and all our sessions feature the opportunity to develop science enquiry & scientific vocabulary accordingly and are matched to the National Curriculum.
We are excited to launch a brand new series of facilitated History workshops that are grounded in the history of Harewood and designed to meet the learning needs of KS1 & 2 students based on the National Curriculum. All of our sessions offer opportunities for cross curricular learning.
Please click the links below to explore our current sessions, we will be continuing to update and expand our current learning offer so please keep checking back to see what exciting new workshops we will be offering. If you want to be kept up to date with our learning programme, join our learning mailing list here.
Bird Gardens Sessions
Grounds and Gardens Sessions
History Sessions
- Harewood at War!>>
- Harewood and the Transatlantic Slave Trade >>
- Princess Mary Yorkshire’s Royal Resident >>
Art and Design Workshops
Where appropriate our workshops are based outdoors with wet weather options and are available all year round.
Admission includes full access to the whole site, including the House, Grounds, Gardens, Bird Garden, Farm Experience and the Adventure Playground so you can explore all day!*
We also offer self-guided visits, for more information head to our Self-Guided Visits page
For further information or assistance with planning your visit you can contact our Learning Team on learn@harewood.org or you can complete our online booking form .
*Access to the wider site is self-guided.
