Royal Highland Show 2013
The Show is on from the Thursday 20th June -Sunday 23rd June 2013.
The Show is on from the Thursday 20th June -Sunday 23rd June 2013.
Visit The RHET Children's Discovery Centre to find out about "The Year of Natural Scotland".
The Show is on from the Thursday 20th June -Sunday 23rd June 2013.
This is the focus of the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) at this year’s Royal Highland Show (RHS).
The Show is on from the Thursday 20th June -Sunday 23rd June 2013.
RHET anticipates that over 25,000 children will visit the UK’s premier agricultural show.
School Groups
Last year over 200 school parties came to the RHS via RHET from all over Scotland, and we expect even more for this year.
When applying teachers can opt for a guided tour around the show ground with their group, visiting key stands and attractions where the volunteer guides can answer questions from the children and teachers alike. This will last circa 1 hour, from your arrival.
Another option is to book in for an activity session.
The picture on the left shows children at the 2012 show who thanks to the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust made partridge chick badges. Another activity from 2012 was the Scotch Beef Cookery Theatre. This picture has Scottish Rugby stars Roddy Grant & David Denson helping some of the cooking classes - who will visit this year?
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Children can learn where milk comes from and the products that can be made from it. Of course all children through the Centre can get the chance to ‘milk’ Mabel, our life-size fibreglass cow.
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There are many other activity providers within the centre, and your class may book in to attend a session. See the downloads section for the activity booking form.
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As well as bookable activities, there is always an array of interesting stands around the showground to children of all ages. We have compiled a list of drop-in activities/places of interest of children, which can be downloaded below.
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There are many ways that the RHS ties in with the Curriculum for Excellence, this includes:
For a registration fee of just £34.00 a group of up to 33 pupils may attend the show on the Thursday or Friday. This includes accompanying adults on the below ratios.
Primary - P1/P2 = 1:4 P3/P4 = 1:6 P5/P6/P7 = 1:8
Secondary - 1:10
Additional Support for Learning 1:1, dependant on the need. Please note details on your booking form.
Any additional adults would pay for tickets on the day, at the gate for £25.00 each. However, an 'early-bird' offer is available online with tickets at £22 if purchased online in advance. See: http://royalhighlandshow.org/tickets/
To book your school group in, please select from the downloads below.
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Downloads
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3 pages, including photo permission & payment form
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Cannot be received without the school booking form and payment
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Drop-in Activities/Places of Interest for Children
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Includes Lower Primary, Upper Primary & Teacher Notes
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Subject to change
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Showground Map
Will be uploaded as soon as is available
General Public
The RHET Children's Discovery Centre is of course open all 4 days of the show, from 9.30am-5pm each day to all.
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As mentioned above school groups can book in for many sessions on the Thursday & Friday. This means the Centre can be extremely busy. However where there is a gap in groups, the public can participate in the activities on offer. Many will have a sign-up list available to other show goers with a time to come back and take part.
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These sign up lists are also available over the weekend where we have no school groups booked in.
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As usual the toy farm will be there, which is a firm favourite with youngsters year after year - and some adults too.
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Buggy-parks are available to parents whose children are participating to leave the gang-way free to pass between activity stations.
General Public
Eating Areas
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There are many 'food courts' around the showground, all marked on the map.
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When the sun shines it can be nice to sit on the grass by the clock tower which overlooks the Main Ring.
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Alternatively, cover can be taken within the grandstand, which also has a view over the Main Ring. This has nearly 1800 seats and is free to all to access.
NB: this can be particularly busy if a popular event is on in the Main Ring.
Volunteers
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RHET wouldn't be able to offer all of the above without the help of our kind partners who offer products, time and staff for the Centre as well as our funders and sponsors. Of course there is also the 100 or so volunteers who kindly give up a few hours of their day to help run RHET activities to educate the children.
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One option for volunteers is acting as a tour guide around the show ground on the Thursday and or Friday mornings.
Between 9.30 and 11am, guides would collect a school group at the WEST GATE, and for approx. an hour to an hour and a half, you can take the group to various areas of the show.
Some teachers know exactly what they would like the children to see and do, where others are happy to be led to points of interest.
A detailed map is provided and of course the essential tea/coffee & biscuits before you set off.
Some guides who get the 1st early schools come back for a 2nd tour group - this is entirely optional.
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A second option is to be a steward in the Children's Discovery centre itself.
There are 3 slots of 2.5 hours over each of the 4 days of the show, which you can choose from: 9.30am-12pm / 12pm-2.30pm / 2.30pm-5pm.
On arrival you will be allocated a role, which may be assisting an activity provider, handing out samples, playing in (supervising) the toy farm or even keeping all the volunteers going with refreshments!
By way of thanks, RHET will offer you an entry ticket to the show, refreshments on the day and there is also a briefing on the Wednesday prior for any last minute questions!
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If you would like to help, please complete the Volunteer Form 2013 and return this to rhetinfo@rhass.org.uk. Call 0131 335 6227 for more details.
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Please Note
No dogs are allowed in the Centre due to the volume of children. Plus there is cooking and food tasting.
The only exception is guide-dogs.
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No Photos are to be taken in the centre, without permission. Please ask a RHET staff member/volunteer.
Only RHET Staff and offical photographers will be taking pictures to record the event..
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Further Info
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Should you have any further questions, or need more information please Contact Us.
