Battersea Dogs & Cats Home - Teaching Resources

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home produces free educational resources across the curriculum

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, one of the most famous and longest-serving charities and London’s leading animal rehoming centre, has a range of free resources for young people, families and teaching professionals.

Learning and Teaching Resources

Education packs

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has a range of free education resources designed to help education professionals to deliver the National Curriculum from Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4, in a fun and creative way.

Working with Educational Professionals, Battersea Dogs & Cats Home has developed two education CDROM packs: Let’s Learn with Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, for Foundation Stage to Key Stage 2 and the Enterprise Challenge, for Key Stages 3 and 4.  They are designed to provide unique, flexible lessons and activities which teachers can easily include in their timetable.  Both packs include navigable PDFs, print resources, teachers notes, background notes, introductory films and image libraries.

Talks and tours

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home offers educational talks about the Home for schools and other organised groups. The talks, by experienced Battersea Dogs & Cats Home staff, can be held at your organisation or at one of our Battersea sites. 

For Parents and Teachers

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home have developed some great resources to use with young people that educate them about looking after dogs and cats and how to stay safe around them.  They all include lots of great pictures and are bright, colourful and easy to understand.  Visit their website for downloadable posters and leaflets, puzzles and activity sheets and essential do’s and don’ts to stay safe around dogs and an online safety quiz.

For Kids

The website has a range of fun things for kids including downloadable dog or cat wallpapers, e-cards and colouring-in sheets, craft activities such as making a dog face mask and recipes for making cat treats and colouring in sheets.  Kids can enter their competitions, go gooey over cute photos of dogs and cats or have a good laugh at the dog and cat jokes.  tweet