Workshops and visits
The Severn Trent education team offers a range of free workshops and visits.
The Wonderful Water Tour is an innovative educational roadshow created to inspire and educate children across our region all about the wonderful world of water.
We live and breathe water at Severn Trent. Not a day passes without us exploring new ways to source it, look after it and ensure all our customers can enjoy it every day of the year.
Our passionate team of Education Officers are determined to visit every primary school in our region to share this knowledge, offering a range of free activities as well as site visits for primary schools and community groups.
Primary school visits
We offer assembly sessions and workshops. Most schools choose both options as they work well together and help inspire the children.
Our team of educators are experts in making our free sessions interactive, informative and most of all fun! We’d love to host an assembly in person or if you prefer we can deliver it through our livestream video option.
Book the Wonderful Water Tour for your primary school
Designed for ages 7 to 11, our interactive van will bring the world of Severn Trent to life! Our hands-on experience is split into two 30-minute sections:
- Step inside the van to enter the science lab where we'll be doing lots of experiments looking at water samples, the pH scale, invertebrates and much more
- Outside we'll play games like 'bin it or flush it' where you will race to unblock our giant sewer and 'fix the pipes' where you'll use tools to repair the pipes as quickly as possible! Alongside these activities there are lots of other large group games to learn why we need to value water as a precious resource
- Put on our Virtual reality headset to enter a world where you can track a raindrop from the sky, through the water and waste treatment processes before it heads back out to the river
The Wonderful Water Tour lasts for one hour per class and is also completely free. Spaces are limited and the experience is very popular so get in touch with the team today to book in.
Classroom workshops
All the workshops that we offer are 1 hour long and designed to be hosted in a classroom environment. Children will often break off into smaller groups to do an activity as part of the workshops. We will provide all resources/equipment needed for each workshop.
The Water Street workshop is a great choice if your class is currently learning about the water cycle and ways to conserve water. It’s also a hit with Eco-councils/groups! This workshop gives an interactive insight into the water cycle and Severn Trent’s journey of water.
The class then break off into groups to carry out a measuring activity where each group will look at how various families use water. Will their family be water wasters or water savers? (This activity involves measuring water in millilitres so please bear this in mind when choosing the year groups that you’d like involved).
Our Sewer Soup workshop is the choice for you if your class is learning about filtration, sustainability and how we clean our water. A favourite with many of our classes, your children will create their own sewage as a class, letting us know what should (and shouldn’t!) go down the sink and the toilet.
They then have a task to attempt to clean and filter the ‘sewage’ after watching a video to show how we do this for real. This is a fun, interactive introduction to the waste-water treatment process will get the whole class thinking about what may cause blockages and how we can avoid them.
Quotes from past participants
Educational site tours
| County | Advisor name | Phone number | Contact online |
| The Black Country and Shropshire | Chris Harper | 07703 718 459 | Contact Chris |
| Derbyshire | Chloe Painter | 07890 400 496 | Contact Chloe |
| Coventry and Warwickshire | Siobhan Bray | 07966 677 724 | Contact Siobhan |
| Gloucestershire and Worcestershire |
Rob Jansen | 07890 897 168 | Contact Rob |
| Nottinghamshire | Phil Pearce | 07703 718 340 | Contact Phil |
| Leicestershire | Leanne Town | 07834 420 019 | Contact Leanne |
| Birmingham and Central |
Andy Hussey | 07977 450 042 | Contact Andy |
| Staffordshire | Lucy Farmer | 07971 542 616 | Contact Lucy |
| Senior Education Officer | Maxine Smith | 07811 586 746 | Contact Maxine |
School or college careers events
We try to attend as many careers events at schools and colleges in our region as possible. With so many educational insitutions in our area, we can't always get to every event.
If you're interested in a career in the water industry, and you weren't able to speak to us at a careers event or would just like to know more, please get in touch with us at potential@severntrent.co.uk and we'll answer your questions. We'd love to hear from you!