Ba Ed students were asked to go to a local place and develop a learning resource for it

1. Nottingham Arboretum
Children’s Trail

2. Education at the Arboretum
 Tree trail
 Heritage trail
 Orienteering
 Health walks
 Outdoor gyms
 Fitness bootcamps
 Younger children
 Use current trails – children can learn
alongside adults whilst on their trails
 Parallel age and content appropriate
trails

3. Focus – Imagination and Peter Pan
 Visit Nottinghamshire website – J.M. Barrie
 ‘worked here for a significant part of his early career’
 ‘took inspiration for the story of Peter Pan from his time in Nottingham’
 ‘also based the setting of Neverland on the Arboretum’
 https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/things-to-do/j-m-barrie-plaque-p626751
 Children’s story about using imagination and escapism
 Adults can learn about Barrie alongside current trails

4. Trail content
 Children’s trail main
areas (alongside current
adult trail):
 Nature
 Animals
 Plants
 Maths – measuring,
counting, telling the time
 Link to Peter Pan:
 Tinkerbell guiding the trail
 Aviary – exotic birds, Never bird
 Lake – crocodile, clock
 Chinese Bell – has a cannon –
Captain Hook, Wendy House
 Victorian flower garden – Tiger Lily
 Lost boys and Peter live in a
hollowed tree
 Fairy dust – plant/vegetable seeds

5. Aviary
Chinese Bell and cannons
Lake

6. Learning
 Focus of the children’s trail – use imagination
 Hidden curriculum – etiquette, café, other people
 Learn basics about wildlife and nature
 Familiar characters from the Peter Pan film
 Taking the learning from the Arboretum to home – seeds, healthy eating