Primary School Activities

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

Get Lesson Plan Pruning

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