Top School Trips -Issue 6

WE LOVE TO LEARN It’s choc-full of discovery! Explore history, design andmuchmore with a day out at Cadbury World With over 32 years’ experience and more than 2,000 school groups attending each year, Cadbury World offers unique educational trips that provide a fascinating insight into the nation’s favourite chocolate brand. There’s an assortment of interactive chocolatey zones to explore and a variety of informative curriculum-linked talks and workshops, including Bean to Bar, the Maya, and Design and Technology. The one-hour talks and workshops complement your group’s day out perfectly, expanding pupils’ knowledge on a range of topics. Self-guided tours are also available, currently priced from just £9.20 per pupil, with one adult admitted free for every eight children. All of this makes Cadbury World the perfect day out for schools. To find out more and to book, visit the website quoted below. Session 1 – The Maya talk Pupils will be introduced to the great city of Chichen Itza and discover the Mayan myths and legends about how humans were created. They will also see real-life cocoa pods filled with the cocoa beans that were so valuable to the Maya around AD 900, as well as the wooden whisk they used to make their favourite chocolate drink, xocoatl. Session 2 – NEW Creative Language Workshop Pupils will utilise their knowledge of language to create a persuasive advertisement for a product of their own design. They will look at past adverts and discover ways to describe and persuade viewers to desire their product. They will work in teams to create the most engaging tagline and use descriptive verbs and adjectives to convince the rest of their class their product is the best. Session 3 – Design and Technology Workshop Pupils will discover the fascinating process by which Cadbury develops new chocolate bars and learn how both wrappers and advertisements are linked to the design of each bar. They'll also take a closer look at Cadbury’s packaging and how it's evolved over the past 100 years, work in small groups to design their own wrapper, and see real-life chocolate moulds used in the Cadbury factory at Bournville. LEARN I NG JOURNEYS HISTORY In Bull Street, the Cadbury Story and the Bournville Experience zones, uncover the philanthropy of the Cadbury family, and how their beliefs created a holistic approach to industry. GEOGRAPHY Explore the Aztec jungle and uncover the journey of the cocoa bean all the way from South America to Europe and into the heart of Victorian England. D&T Throughout the tour, discover how the manufacture of chocolate has changed since Cadbury made its first bar, and how chocolatiers made chocolate by hand in the past. CURRICULUM LINKS www.cadburyworld.co.uk // CADBURY WORLD www.teachwire.net/school-trips | 15 PARTNER CONT ENT