Here you will find a selection of our activities for primary schools. All written as part of our schools project.
Making Apple Juice
This a ‘how to’ guide for making fresh apple juice in schools, for schools with or
without juice pressing equipment.
Get School Guide Making Apple Juice
Making Dried Apple Rings
This a guide for a super low-tech method for preserving an apple glut which lends
itself to enterprise – why not sell apple rings to the wider school community?
Get School Guide Making Dried Apple Rings
Pruning Lesson Plan
Learn about the parts of a tree and why it’s important to prune fruit trees
Fruit Thinning Math
During the summer it is important to ‘thin’ out the developing fruitlets – why not
make this mathematical?
Get Lesson Plan Fruit Thinning Maths
Lifecycles and Foodchains
Learn about the lifecycles and food chains of some of the plants and animals commonly found in
the orchard.
Get Lesson Plan Lifecycles Foodchains
Apples of The British Isles
Learn about the huge range of apple varieties that grow all around the British Isles with this
classroom-based lesson plan
Get Lesson Plan Apples of The British Isles
Become a member
Do you believe that community orchards can be transformative? That they change places for the better and bring people together?