Farm Visits for Schools
The countryside offers a wonderful experience for everyone , but for school groups it is an invaluable learning resource. You can access this superb facility by bringing your school group to the organic farm and estate at Holme Lacy College. The College farm and estate covers a total of 224 hectares and is made up of mixed farmland, woodland and water systems. These natural facilities complemented by the College’s teaching resources form an excellent facility and an opportunity to help teach all aspects of the curriculum.
Curriculum Links
Areas within the curriculum that can be covered on the farm:-
- habitats – adaptation, food chains and food webs;
- field work skills and techniques
- plants and growing
- humans and other animals, life cycles
- sustainable management of the countryside
Sample Themes
These are just a few suggestions which could be made available to you and your school group:-
- farm tours
- question time with the farmer
- themed walk – farming, conservation, wildlife and woodland
- animal husbandry
- crop growing
- food production
Field work techniques:-
- soil sampling
- pond dipping
- landscape sketching
- tree surveys
For full details and options, please download the School visit information pack
Peter Hewitt, Farm Enterprise Co-ordinator, is based at the Holme Lacy campus and is on hand to tailor visits to suit individual groups requirements.
Telephone: 01432 870316
Email:
hewittp@hct.ac.uk
