Back in the classroom:

  • Create a healthy, nutritionally balanced and locally sourced menu for your lunches to propose to the school.
  • Set up an Eco Warrior Club at your school where you can plant a range of vegetables, herbs and flowers.
  • Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0drvdLYGNuc showing the UK in 100 seconds to explain percentages of land use.
  • Find out more about sustainability and food with this great resource: https://www.52climateactions.com/farm
Curriculum Links:
  • Design and Technology KS2 - Understand seasonality, and know where and how a variety of ingredients are grown, reared, caught and processed. Understand and apply the principles of a healthy and varied diet
  • Science KS2 - Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat. Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents
  • Human and physical geography KS2 - Human geography, including: types of settlement and land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

Local Food and Farming-
Making Healthy Choices

Pupils go on an exciting and informative safari on a trailer towed by a tractor across Lower Farm lands. Local farmer George Atkinson or his son Will engage pupils with many aspects of farm life. Depending on the seasons pupils will see crops and animals and learn how George manages his farm with respect for the environment. (Spring is a great time for younger children to see lambing).
Pupils are out and about for two hours with George or Will, who are great at relating to young people of all ages. This is an exciting adventure especially for pupils who are not familiar with the countryside.

Adaptable for all KS2 this activity aims to familiarize pupils with a farmer’s work and illustrate medium scale mixed farming in Britain. (2 hours)

Back at the Centre optional classroom activities allow pupils to match raw foods to their packaged finished product and to choose a healthy meal from cards with organic, local products and supermarket options. Considering food miles and Fairtrade, GM crops and organic farming, pupil’s can place their experience on the farm in a more global context. Can we afford to or do we choose to take these options?

Classroom activities are most suitable for years 5 and 6 but the tour can be enjoyed by all KS2 pupils. (1.5 hours)

Allow a full day to cover both farming activity programmes and a half day for the farm tour by itself.

For more information on the farm tour please click here: