Harewood House
Harewood House
Harewood House is a country house in Harewood near Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Designed by architects John Carr and Robert Adam, it was built between 1759 and 1771 for wealthy trader Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood.
Harewood sits at the heart of Yorkshire, one of the Treasure Houses of England. The house was built in the 18th century and has art collections to rival the finest in the land in the setting of Yorkshire’s most beautiful landscape.
There are exhibitions of contemporary art, an award-winning educational department, renowned Bird Garden and over 100 acres of exquisite gardens for visitors to explore and enjoy.
Owned by David and Diane Lascelles, Earl and Countess of Harewood, the Harewood Estate manages the countryside surrounding Harewood House. It has a nationally recognised conservation programme with particular emphasis on the restoration of historic buildings ranging from Home Farm to Harewood Castle, as well as the protection and development of wildlife habitats and the maintenance of Listed parkland.
Educational Visits
Harewood is visited by over 7,000 children on school trips each year, making it a top educational attraction. We offer sessions for all age ranges including Early Years, Primary, Secondary, 6th Form, FE and HE, University, and ESOL.
Our education sessions at Harewood extend to all areas of the site including the House, the Bird Garden and the Grounds, covering a wide range of topics across the curriculum.
All our sessions are adaptable for both Key Stages 1 & 2, and do remember, if there is something that you would like to cover in particular, please do let us know, as we are always happy to develop bespoke sessions just for you.
Top tips for booking your educational sessions:
1. Let us know exactly what you are looking to gain from your session: we can adapt any session to suit your needs so do tell us what you would like to cover!
2. Make the most of our resources. We have summary sheets for all our sessions available to help you plan your lessons leading up to and following on from your trip, as well as post session activity sheets, designed to consolidate your pupil’s learning whilst on site.
3. Combine multiple sessions in one visit; you can cover a number of different subjects in one day, ensuring maximum value from your trip to us.
4. Something you want to cover that we don’t offer? Just ask and we will see what we can do!
“Harewood House is nationally important for its 18th century building, arts – both fine and contemporary, its furnishings and grounds. The education offer goes way beyond the obvious treasure house to take in superb landscape grounds and gardens, as well as a historic church and castle ruins. Because of this, Harewood offers a large and wide-ranging programme of educational sessions for schools covering not only art and history, but also science and geography. This all takes place in a stunningly beautiful setting that cannot fail to inspire people of all ages.”
Sandford Award Inspection, 2013