Teachers

Find everything you need to plan a lesson or book a school trip.

Little frog

Education centres

Discover our education centres and book your visit.

Tophill Low

Find out about educational sessions at Tophill Low nature reserve, Driffield.

Visit Tophill Low

Tophill Low Nature Reserve

Ewden

Find out about educational sessions at our water treatment works in Stocksbridge, Sheffield.

Visit Ewden

Ewden

Headingley

Find out about educational sessions at our water treatment works in Leeds.

Visit Headingley

Headingley

Live events

Are your students studying water related topics? Take part in our programme of live virtual events.

Live events

Laptop and cup of tea

Online lessons

Access our suite of online lessons, specifically created for Key Stage 2 students.

Pencil

School visits

If you can't come to one of our fantastic education centres, we may be able visit you instead.

School visits

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WaterAid

Learning resources and fundraising materials to help to provide clean water and sanitation for everyone, everywhere.

WaterAid

Glasses of water

Careers education & work experience

Find out about our live careers events and work experience at Yorkshire Water which link to the Gatsby benchmarks of good career guidance.

Careers

Umbrella

Teacher CPD - It's only water 

Get up to speed on all things water with our Science Behind series - a continuous professional development programme for teachers.

Watch the Science Behind series

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Water safety

Water Safety education is really important to us here at Yorkshire Water and we provide lots of opportunities for you to engage your students in the importance of swimming in a safe place.

Water safety events

Reservoir

Our teaching resources

The Countryside Code

Interesting and exciting activities to engage young people and teach them to respect, protect and enjoy. 

The Water Environment Book

Information and experiments.

Science pack

Exciting water facts and fun, interactive experiments for pupils.

The Green Classroom lesson plan

Series of nine lesson plans that use Science, Mathematics, Citizenship, Geography, English, Art & Design and ICT.

The Green Classroom work booklets

Fun, colourful work booklets to use with your class as your work through the series of nine lessons.

The Green Classroom certificate

We've created a certificate that commends pupils who've worked extra hard on this topic - download as many copies as you like.

Water cycle poster

To put up in your classroom

Water treatment poster

To put up in your classroom

Treating wastewater poster

To put up in your classroom 

Pee-o-meter

Tinkle test to assess hydration levels.

Soak it up

Presentation about making the most of rainwater.

WaterAid

A range of resources to download and order from WaterAid.

Poo Power booklet

Materials that can be used for class based work, home study, assembly preparation, extension activity and community outreach.