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Welcome to Monarto Safari Park learning!

Please book a minimum of two weeks in advance to qualify for the education concession prices and adult free rations.

Student pricing:

Student (all ages)$16.50
Student with educator-led program$24.50
Student with modified educator-led program$21.50
Zoos SA members gain free entry (a program fee will be added if undertaking an educator-led program)

Equity student discount:

Category 1-4 and SA rural schools, Early Childhood Education Category 1-2$13.00
Equity student with educator-led program$21.00
Equity student with modified educator-led program$18.00
University/TAFE and other adult education$19.00

Adult ratios for school groups:

Junior Primary (Kindergarten - Year 3)1 free adult per 5 students
Primary (Year 4-6)1 free adult per 10 students
Secondary/Tertiary1 free adult per 15 students
Mix of Primary ages1 free adult per 8 students
Additional adults:
$47.00 each. Concession card holders $37.00 each
Please note that students with Zoos SA Membership are not included in the free ratios listed above. These apply to paying students only.

Head out into the bush to explore and make observations using your senses!

A Conservation Educator leads groups through a sensory trail where students will observe evidence of different animals via scats, bones, homes and more.

Students will be led through the Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby gorge before finishing their experience with an exciting visit to the Chimpanzee platform to watch our troop interact and play.

Duration: Duration: 1 hour or 1.5 hours

Please note: Selection of the 1 hour experience will best coincide with the 1 hour Africa Tour, Selection of the 1.5 hour experience will best coincide with the 1.5 hour Full Safari Tour.

Explore the Monarto Safari Park bushland and make observations using your senses.

Discover different animal homes like nests, hollows, underground burrows and more interesting animal niches.

Finish your experience with an exciting visit to the Chimpanzee platform where you can watch our troop interact and play.

Duration: Duration: 1 hour or 1.5 hours

Please note: Selection of the 1 hour experience will best coincide with the 1 hour Africa Tour, Selection of the 1.5 hour experience will best coincide with the 1.5 hour Full Safari Tour.

Join a conservation educator for a learning experience that will take you around the park to undertake hands-on conservation and keeper work!

Find out about the important role Safari Parks play in conservation and learn how ecosystem health and protection is a critical element in saving species.

Finish your experience with an exciting visit to the Chimpanzee platform where you can watch our troop interact and play.

Duration: Duration: 1 hour or 1.5 hours

Please note: Selection of the 1 hour experience will best coincide with the 1 hour Africa Tour, Selection of the 1.5 hour experience will best coincide with the 1.5 hour Full Safari Tour.

Get active and hands-on in nature to discover more about the amazing world we live in.

Working in teams, students will be challenged to build the best cubby ever, in the unique Monarto bushland!

Head out to the Indaba Bush Camp and learn about how animals survive in different habitats and the importance of healthy habitats and animals’ survival needs.

Duration: 1.5 hours

This lesson introduces students to the unique ways elephants and other animals communicate within their social structures. The lesson will draw on real-life examples of animal communication from various species at the Safari Park with a focused examination of elephant behaviour and communication, using recordings and on-site animal observations.

Teachers will be given access to pre- and post-session lesson booklets which they can use to extend the learning gained from the day.

This program will be available from January 2025

Curriculum Connection (ACARA v9):

Year 5 Science: Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment. ACSSU04.

Year 6 Science: The growth and survival of living things are affected by physical conditions of their environment. ACSSU094.

Year 9 Biological Science: Ecosystems consist of communities of interdependent organisms and abiotic components of the environment; matter and energy flow through these systems. ACSSU176.

This lesson introduces students to the ecosystem and habitat requirements of elephants and engages them in designing an enclosure that meets these needs. Through sensory exploration, habitat comparison, and behavioural observations, students develop insights into how environmental features support elephant wellbeing. The session culminates in an enrichment design activity, where students create an idea to enhance the habitat based on observed behaviours.

Teachers will be given access to pre- and post-session lesson booklets which they can use to extend the learning gained from the day.

This program will be available from June 2025

Curriculum Connection (ACARA v9):

Year 9 Geography: the distribution and characteristics of biomes as regions with distinctive climates, soils, vegetation, and productivity. AC9HG9K01.

Year 7- 10 Design and Technologies: analyse how people in design and technologies occupations consider ethical and sustainability factors to design and produce products, services and environments. AC9TDE10K01, AC9TDE10P03

Students turn ranger as they undertake activities across Monarto Safari Park that rangers take on in the wild.

Groups will use field skills and appropriate contextual language to investigate and monitor animal distribution and behaviour. Using their senses, logic and current knowledge, students will work together to identify Scats, Spoors and animal parts.

Groups will develop an understanding that managing animals in a captive environment requires specific knowledge of animal behaviour and the ways that humans can impact on food webs and habitat.

Duration: Duration: 1 hour or 1.5 hours

Please note: Selection of the 1 hour experience will best coincide with the 1 hour Africa Tour, Selection of the 1.5 hour experience will best coincide with the 1.5 hour Full Safari Tour.

Wake up to the call of the wild and experience the thrill of spending a wild night (or two!) at Monarto Safari Park.

Stay at Indaba, our unique bush-style camp, in an off-limits area of Monarto Safari Park. Camp out with classmates and take part in team building challenges, games and an exciting night walk through the park’s Mallee scrub.

Learn about animals and habitat conservation and leave with some amazing stories to share.

Camp indoors, in swags, in the old shearing shed or pitch your own tent.

Details:

  • 20 – 35 students plus adult supervisors
  • Available every week of the school term

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See lions, cheetah, hyena, chimpanzees, zebra and more roaming vistas as far as the eye can see on a wild excursion around the largest safari park outside of Africa!

If you would like to explore Monarto Safari Park on a self-guided visit (with no Educator-led program), students are still eligible to receive the group discounted rate.

As part of your entry, we will provide a tour host for your own vehicle to direct you around the park on a 60-minute African Safari Tour or 90-minute full safari tour. We also recommend travelling on foot from the Visitor Centre to see the Meerkats, Yellow-footed Rock-wallabies and Chimpanzees.

Select self-guided on the booking form to let us know when you are coming and to be invoiced for the discounted entry rate.

 

Recycle your old phones to help chimpanzees in the wild!

When you recycle your mobile phones at Adelaide Zoo or Monarto Safari Park, the funds generated through recycling supports on-ground work with Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary and the Jane Goodall Institute Australia.

Tacugama have over 80 Chimpanzees in their Rehabilitation Centre and run community outreach, research and alternative livelihoods programs. The Jane Goodall Institute Australia are supporting education, research and community programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

If you would like to incorporate phone recycling as part of a school visit, mention it to our Education team when making your booking.

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About Zoos SA

Zoos SA is a not-for-profit conservation charity that exists to connect people with nature and save species from extinction. Zoos SA acknowledges the Country on which we stand always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land and we pay our deepest respect and gratitude to Kaurna (Adelaide Zoo) and Ngarrindjeri (Monarto Safari Park) Elders, past, present and emerging. We undertake critical conservation work throughout Australia and acknowledge the traditional custodians of these lands.

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