26TRA509 Teaching STEM and Biodiversity Outdoors (Presentation Primary Tralee)

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMER COURSE 2025

Dates: Wednesday 1st - Tuesday 7th July 2026
Time: 9.30 am - 2 pm
Venue: Presentation Primary School, Castle Street Upper, Tralee, Co. Kerry V92X093
Cost: €50

Come to beautiful Tralee, Co Kerry for a practical outdoor summer course with delicious lunch provided by Benners Hotel! Discover how rewarding teaching STEM and Biodiversity outdoors can be with field trips to Tralee Town Park, Ballyseedy Woods and Fenit beach. The course is lead by Ecologist and School Gardening facilitator, Cathy Eastman (Biodiversity Partners) with guest facilitator, Niamh ni Dhuill (An Taisce Learning About Forests (LEAF) and An Choill Bheag expert). The course is a blend of interactive, practical outdoor workshops, field trips, lectures and group work. Onsite workshops will be held in the fantastic outdoor classroom and grounds of the Presentation Primary School. You will leave with lots of ideas for teaching STEM outdoors, developing your own outdoor classrooms and habitat projects and making STEM delivery fun and educational for all your students!

Teachers Testimonials

“A fantastic course; informative, enjoyable, it opened my eyes to what’s around us in the school grounds and gave me some ideas where to begin in September”

“Excellent course. Thoroughly enjoyed, thank you Cathy”

“Excellent course, very easy going but we learned loads”

“Wonderful course with a great variety of topics covered, lovely field trips where we learned about plant varieties. Looking forward to improving school garden, a small wood and getting native hedging into school. Mile Buíochas Cathy”

“Superb course. Very enjoyable but so informative. Great enthusiasm and passion displayed by our facilitator. Would highly recommend this course to other teachers”

“A very enjoyable course, Cathy is a well of knowledge and I could listen to her all day! Thank you, thoroughly enjoyable!”

“Thoroughly enjoyed the course, very practical and hands on”

“The course was delivered to a very high standard. The course provider provided loads of information and was hugely knowledgeable about the topics we were covering. I really enjoyed the course.”

“It was a really enjoyable and engaging course, thank you so much Cathy!”

Summer Course Booking Policy

Our summer courses are booked on the condition that the course fee is non-refundable.
Unfortunately, if you wish to cancel your place on one of our courses or are unable to attend the course, we are not in a position to refund fees.

Tralee Education Support Centre reserves the right to cancel a Summer Course where there are not sufficient numbers to run the course.
In the event of the Centre having to cancel your course, you will be offered an alternative course or offered a full refund.

In line with DES Circular 0037/1997, participants attending Summer Courses accrue entitlements as follows:

• Full Attendance (20 Hours): 3 EPV Days
• 4 Days Attendance (16 Hours): 2 EPV Days
• No EPV days will be awarded for less than 4 days attendance

Thank you for your continued support of Tralee Education Support Centre.

Closing Date for Registration is Wednesday 24th June 2026