The outdoor education centres provide outdoor education programmes to complement and supplement the school curriculum. The museum programmes involve visits to museums with lessons on heritage, history and the environment.

• Burger Strandhuis Outdoor Education Centre
• School in the Wilds Outdoor Education Centre
• Western Cape Youth Trust Outdoor Education Centre
• Genadendal Mission Museum Education Programme
• Kleinplasie (Worcester) Museum Education Programme
• Iziko Museums of Cape Town Museum Education Programmes
• Centre for Conservation Education

This school in Muizenberg is used as a base for educational tours of the Cape Peninsula.

During school terms, groups of Grade 7 learners visit the facility for a week at a time, usually from other parts of the Western Cape or from the Northern and Eastern Cape.

During 2003, board and lodging for the week cost R200 per child, while entrance-fees to the various museums and other facilities cost between R150 and R200.

During school holidays, groups of less privileged children enjoy sponsored visits to the facilities.

At the end of each year, a youth leaders' camp is held at the facility. Participants are elected by schools from the learners who have completed Grade 11 and who will be taking up leadership positions at the school in the following year.

To book a school visit to the Burger Strandhuis, contact Mr Basson at 021 788 7027. Applications should be sent through during September/October for the following year.

Based in Villiersdorp, the School in the Wilds, runs three-day camps during the school terms. 4 school groups of Grade 5 to 7 learners are accommodated each week.

The activities programme changes each year, but includes farm activities, fynbos activities and adventure activities.

In 2003 the cost per learner for the three-day camp for 2003 was R171, excluding transport.

Schools wishing to book camps can contact:

Loretta Van Rensburg
Tel: 028 840 1139
sosvdorp@mweb.co.za

This outdoor school runs 3-day camps for Grade 5, 6 and 7 learners at Bain's Kloof, Jonkershoek and Melkbos respectively.

In 2004 the fee per child will be R175. This covers food and accommodation but not transport.

To book, contact Mrs Moller on 021 887 1304 for an application form.

Applications for the following year are processed in September and October.

Educational visits to the museum cover various aspects of the history of the area, including:

• the life-style of the Khoi Khoi 200 - 300 years ago
• the national monument and buildings dating back 270 yearsthe mission's history
• Genadendal in the modern era
• early industries, such as copper mining, the water mill and furniture-making.

The programme is conducted by a resident educator and takes about 3 hours.

There is no charge for school groups, but donations are welcome.

For more information, contact:

Samuel Baatjes
Tel: 028 251 8582
Fax: 028 251 8582
genadendalmuseum@xsinet.co.za

A trained educator is stationed at Kleinplasie. School visits focus on farm life in the area when the pioneers first settled there.

A number of interactive programmes are available throughout the year, on themes including The Pioneers' Way of Life (featuring tobacco rolling, bread baking and candle making), Farm Animals, Candle-making (for groups of up to 24) and Bread-baking (for groups of up to 34).

Seasonal activities include Farm Fun (featuring old-fashioned games and making one's own toys), grape pressing, paper making, sheep-shearing, veld plants and their uses, 'in the dairy', and farm animals.

In June and August the educator visits schools in Cape Town that cannot afford to come to the museum and presents a programme on making herbal ointments.

Visiting Kleinplasie costs R4 per child. One teacher is admitted free with every 25 learners. Parents who help with transport are admitted for half of the normal entrance fee of R12 per adult. A train ride to the main exhibition of large farmyard machinery is available at a further R2.50 per person.

Schools wishing to arrange activities should contact:

Sunette Joubert
Tel: 023 342 2225
Fax: 023 347 4134
annaleneniemand@mweb.co.za

There is one trained educator stationed at the Slave Lodge. She conducts lessons at this and other Iziko Museums.

For more information, contact:

Letitia Swanepoel
Tel: 021 460 8241

All the outdoor and museum education programmes are co-ordinated by the Centre for Conservation Education, which incorporates the Education Museum. The Centre offers interesting and varied approaches to conservation education from many angles, and is much in demand, so schools need to book their visits well in advance.

For more information, contact the programme co-ordinator: