Booking an Education Visit to Jupiter Artland

Booking an Education Visit to Jupiter Artland:

Booking your visit

Availability

Visiting options

What to bring:

Terms and conditions

Travel Arrangements:

Travelling by car

Travellling by Public Transport

Travelling by coach:

Instructions for Coach Drivers

Guidelines for primary and nursery teachers

General information

Completing a Risk Assessment

Self guiding groups

Jupiter Artland Woodland Classroom and Garden Potential Hazards

Woodland Classroom Potential Hazards:

Woodland classroom garden Potential Risks/ Hazards

Sculpture Potential Hazards

General Outside Potential Hazards

Booking Form

Booking your visit

The Jupiter Education Foundation provides FREE visits to schools, universities and community groups.

Availability

Free educational visits are available on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND THURSDAYSduring school term times from FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER and TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS in the holidays.

Visiting options

Visits can be structured in the following ways:

1.A full day tour and workshop from 9.30am-2.30pm (times can be adjusted if required). Half day tour/workshops can also be booked for nursery visits or groups with additional learning needs.

Capacity: 30 primary/nursery children and 25 secondary/tertiary students for a workshop
2.A half day visit (am or pm) in which the group can have a tour and sketching and photographing time.

Capacity:

Mondays: Feb – November up to 30

Wednesdays: Feb-November –upto 60 (tour, break space and sketching time)

Thursdays: May-Sept up to 30; Oct-April upto 60 (tour, breakspace and sketching time)
3. A self-led visit for a full day/half day with indoor space provided for breaks and lunches

Capacity:

Mondays and Wednesdays: Feb-November –up to 60

Thursdays: May-Sept up to 30; Oct-April up to 60

What to bring:

Jupiter Artland is predominantly an outdoor gallery with mud at nearly all times of year! Please make sure pupils wear suitable footwear and bring warm layers and waterproofs too.

Workshop activities can be messy to it also recommended they wear old clothes and/or bring art overalls.

Terms and conditions

All visits are SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY and confirmation from education staff - Education visits can often book up to 2 terms in advance. It is recommended to provide a list of suitable dates when booking so we coordinate a date that works for both parties.
It is the responsibility of all group leaders to complete a RISK ASSESSMENT prior to visiting.
All self-guided visit leaders MUST complete an onsite pre-visit risk assessment. Please email to arrange this.
Please read all our travel arrangements before visiting. If travelling by coach you MUST pass on our instructions to your coach drivers.
To book in your visit you MUST complete the booking visit form and email to to confirm your visit.

Travel Arrangements:

Travelling by car

Jupiter Artland is only open to the public from May-September. During months outwith these dates there are not always signposts to Jupiter Artland. We are located 25 minutes outside Edinburgh. If you are using satellite navigation, be warned you will end up in the middle of a field upsetting our very patient neighbours. PLEASE do follow our instructions on the Internet, there is only one entrance to Jupiter and that is via the B7015. Please park in the main car park and walk up to the Steadings area to meet your education leader.

Travellling by Public Transport

There is a direct bus from central Edinburgh and the journey takes 35 minutes. The number 27 First bus leaves from Edinburgh (Regent Rd) or from Dalry Road, Haymarket. After you have gone through Wilkieston the bus will take a right hand turn onto the B7015 to East Calder. Twenty yards after the turn onto the B7015 the gates to Jupiter Artland are on the right after Ashbank House. The bus driver will stop at a bus stop called Coxydene/Jupiter Artland 50 yards further on. They have gone too far if they get to Camps industrial estate.

Please be aware that although the bus stops outside Jupiter Artland gates, it is a 15-20 minute walk to the main Steadings area where our education facilities are located. Please allow time for this when planning your journey. Please make sure you call the Jupiter education team when you are 15 minutes away so they can come meet you at the gate.

Please see overleaf for coach instructions

Travelling by coach:

The Jupiter Artland gates are 3.3 metres wide so most coaches can not fit through and doing so will damage the grass verges. If the coach is too big it is possible to be dropped outside the gates where a member of the education staff will meet you to walk you up to the education area. This must be arranged in advance.

You MUST pass on the below instructions to your coach driver.

Instructions for Coach Drivers

There is no access for large coaches to Jupiter Artland. If the coach is wider than 3.3 metres then you will need to drop off the group at the main gates just off the B7015. The road is not wide enough for larger coaches to be able to swing into the gates.
Please do not park the coach to wait for the group on the side of the road next to our gates as this is dangerous for traffic on the B7015. Coxydene Farm Foods just beyond our gates are not happy about being used as a turning area or a coach park so please continue along the B7015 and turn in the Camps Industrial Estate if you need to turn. It is also possible to park by the road in the Industrial Estate area to wait for the group.
There are strictly no vehicles allowed in the Steadings area. If your mode of transport gets through the gates please park in the main car park (or disabled car park if applicable) and follow the road around to the Steadings area.
Please can the leader of the group visiting contact the office when you are 15 minutes away and an education officer will meet them at the gate. The office number is 01506889900.

Guidelines for primary and nursery teachers

General information

Please park in the main car park or if you are a group with additional needs there is a disabled car park near the Steadings buildings.
If you come on a large coach you will need to let us know so we can meet you at the main gates – 20 minute walk from the indoor base. Please call us to let us know when you are 15 minutes away so we can walk to meet you.
Please contact staff on the Jupiter office number 01506889900 on arrival or come to the Jupiter Estate Office in the cottage next to the Steadings area .
Toilets are located in the Steadings Area.
Working area next to toilets is out of bounds.
Jupiter Artland is open to the public from mid May to the end of September, Thursday to Sunday.
Jupiter Café is only open May to September on Thursdays for educational groups.
Educational visits are for free but donations to the Jupiter Education Foundation are welcomed.
Please come suitably dressed and with strong waterproof footwear as there is always mud!

Completing a Risk Assessment

Jupiter is an outdoor space with many potential hazards and risks. It is important that you have conducted a full risk assessment in advance of your visit. We offer pre visit sessions and if these are not suitable we welcome teachers to visit at other times too.

We have listed potential hazards below but these are only guidelines and responsibility lies with the visiting group to have conducted their own risk assessment relevant to their own group.

Self guiding groups

Children must be supervised at all times

Self-guiding groups must ensure this and bring the legally required number of staff to make this possible. Guided groups will be accompanied by at least one member of the Jupiter Education staff.

We can provide self guided resources, which have information, questions and tips about each artwork, as well as H and S guidance for each artwork.

There is a folder in the classroom with the health and safety guidelines for the classroom and garden. It is recommended that the teacher in charge reads this at the beginning of the day.

Jupiter Artland Woodland Classroom and Garden Potential Hazards

The Woodland Classroom maximum capacity is 30 people (including accompanying adults) for a class and 50 people for a lecture.

Woodland Classroom Potential Hazards:

Floor is of painted concrete and is slippy when wet therefore a warning sign must be put up if floor has become wet. Otherwise the floor must be mopped and kept dry.
The large doors to the woodland classroom could pose a risk for fingers and door slamming. There is a hook, which holds back the doors. When the doors kept open this must be on.
Heaters – there are electric heaters that heat the classroom in winter and these must be pointed out to the children so they don’t touch them. Warning signs will be put next to them.
Equipment – all sharp tools and potentially harmful equipment is kept in the storage container.
Trip hazard of a small step into the classroom.
Ensure that all tables are properly constructed as potential risk of collapse if not.

Woodland classroom garden Potential Risks/ Hazards

The steps into the classroom area are quite steep for small children so accompanying teachers/group leaders must guide them.
There are many potential risks of tree climbing, tripping and slipping. The teacher must explain these risks to the children at the start of a play session.
Risk of falling from trees so no tree climbing allowed.
Risk of falling from walls or damaging walls so no climbing on the walls, jumping the walls or pushing/kicking walls, which are dry stone walls and with extreme force can be moved.
Risk of falling from other objects such tables and chair logs which the children may sit on but not climb on as they are not stable.
Risk of children wandering off from classroom garden – gates must be kept shut at all times.
Risk of children entering the working area – gates to working area are padlocked from the other side
Risk of children going into the storage container where potentially hazardous tools are stored – this must be kept locked at all times.
Risk of injury from sticks and stones – below the waist rule – children may play with them to create outdoor outwork or dens etc but they do not raise them above waist height or throw them.
In the garden there is a premade den with large sticks for building on to it. Sticks are not secured so there is a risk of them falling down. Children can use this area for building and playing but must proceed with caution and all sticks should be kept below waist height.

Sculpture Potential Hazards

Cells of Life – these large landforms rise to 60 feet high and have narrow paths. In winter these can be slippy and care should be taken when walking up the paths. Please go in single file, watch where you are walking not the view and if it is very wet don’t attempt to climb the highest mound. Keep to the flat paths and do not roll, slide or climb up or down the sides.
Firmament – the slope up to this artwork can be very slippy please take extra care especially when coming down it.
Only Connect – single file over bridge
Stone House Bonnington – the floor is very uneven please take care when walking inside
Coppice room – small groups – 6 or less at once as it is easy to hurt your face on the tree trunks as they get closer together as you move into the artwork.
The Light Pours Out of Me – do not touch the barbed wire and take care walking down the steps when wet as can be slippy
Stone Coppice – do not climb or attempt to move the stones in the trees and take care of the badger sets.

General Outside Potential Hazards

Roads – the roads running through the Artland are private and therefore not busy except when we are open to the public. Care must be taken at all times when walking on the roads.
Animals – there are ponies and horses in the fields, which you walk past. Please do not try to pet them or feed them as they can bite.
Trees – if it is windy we will advise you not to go on a tour in the woodland. When you are in the woods please check overhead to make sure there are no hanging branches when you are walking about.
Machinery – due to ongoing maintenance there may be gardener’s machinery in the Artland – please avoid areas where they are working
Sometimes tools are left in the Artland please do not let children touch them.
Slips and trips – especially in woodland areas where there are no paths, please wear suitable footwear and follow teacher in charge who can warn the group of hazardous surfaces.
Dog poo – the owners of Jupiter have dogs and sometimes they walk around the artland – please ensure that children do not handle it.

Booking Form

School/Organisation name:
Contact name:
Contact email:
Contact mobile number (teacher in charge of group)
School/organisation address
Group size:
Age of pupils:
Special requirements or disabilities:
Number of accompanying adults
There is a limit of 2 adult helpers accompanying the teacher with each group. Except in the case of children with additional learning needs).
Proposed dates for visit
Please be aware there is no guarantee this date will be available.
Arrival time
Departure time
Type of Visit
(Please refer to visit options)
Mode of Travel
Do you require someone to meet you at the main gates? (Please refer to travel arrangements before answering)
I would like to request a cd of educational resources and sample lesson plans to be sent to the above address Yes/No
Tea and coffee facilities Yes/No
If you are coming as a large adult or older teenage group visit between September and May we can provide tea and coffee facilities in the café space if this is pre-booked and we leave an honesty box for donations.
Jupiter Artland sometimes takes photographs for use on its website and social media to promote the work of the Education Foundation.
I give permission for my class to be photographed and will advise on any pupils who cannot be photographed. Yes/No

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