Schools

Activities
Each school visit is tailored to the requirement of the course by liasing with the teacher. Most popular is sausage making in the morning with lunch of sausages & mash, local vegetables and a home-made pudding. The farm tour in the afternoon enables the students to see for real what has been talked about in the morning.

Reception Class visits centre more round the animals while the older primary Key Stage 2 children will learn all aspects of the curriculum from history and geography through core subjects to even music, art and IT.

GCSE and Tertiary student visits can be more specific and lead by discussion and exploration, with the farm tour including the particular aspects that are relevant to their course, but rarely not including a visit to the pigs. Ideal for business studies, butchery and cookery based courses.

Subjects
Every subject in the National Curriculum can be accessed on the farm. Literacy and numeracy are involved at every turn, particular to key stages 1 and 2. Farm long barrows from 600 years ago, through to the man made river, medieval lynchetts and Victorian water meadows, the countryside gives history a picture which ties in with the geography of the area. The morals of farming provide an insight in PHSE and business studies which are further developed at The Ginger Piggery complex where butchery and cookery also form a vital part of food technology courses.