Farming World as an outdoor classroom
A visit to Farming World gives teachers and school children a unique opportunity to experience for themselves the realities of modern farming, thus making Farming World educationally valuable as an excellent shop window for the farming industry.
A complete understanding of the countryside, and the many activities associated with it, is impossible within four walls of a classroom. Farming World understands that teachers and children need outdoor classrooms to provide practical opportunities and first-hand experience of all aspects of the National Curriculum. For the teacher, it also provides an opportunity to sense new experiences and to put into practice skills acquired within the classroom.
Hands-on experience
The basic aim of any visit at this age is to widen the child's first-hand experience, nowhere is this more true than
on a farm. Farming World provides the child with the opportunity of discovering that there is a wide variety of living
things, not just humans and pets.
Of learning that living things, be they plant or animal, need food to survive, and that
they have a role to play in society. It is important that we seek to develop the occasions when children can experience
elements of excitement and pleasure alongside learning.
This little piggy went to market...
We have introduced a maths trail and activity sheets relating to a whole host of practical maths opportunities found upon the farm. The activities have been chosen to support learning from the earliest Mathematical Development Stepping Stones for the Foundation Stage up to Key Stage 2 learning.
Download the Key stage 1 PDF
Knowledge worth shearing
For children of this age, the visit to Farming World may still be their first experience of the countryside, but equally
it may be building on the familiarisation that may have taken place in previous years. It is important at this stage that
children have access to the “real world” and can put theories into practice in a suitable environment.
We have introduced a maths trail and activity sheets relating to a whole host of practical maths opportunities found upon the farm. The activities have been chosen to support learning from the earliest Mathematical Development Stepping Stones for the Foundation Stage up to Key Stage 2 learning.
Download the Key stage 2 PDF
Talking about Food & Farming
At Key Stage 3 it is rare for food, farming and the countryside to feature explicitly in work schemes, but teachers do have the freedom to develop their own schemes (as long as they meet the requirements of the National Curriculum) and the scope to build in food, farming and countryside topics.
Download the Key stage 3 PDF
Links to Food, Farming and the Countryside
At Key Stage 4 we realise that teachers will have to be specific about the content of a farm visit. In some cases it may be part of the coursework component and we can arrange for you to carry out independent fieldwork and investigations on our farm.
Farming World is part of a family-run agricultural business which farms over 1,500ha, covering a wide range of crops, arable, cereals, hops, fruit, and leisure. Farming World therefore has all the facilities required for a school visit, and it can explore relationships between physical features and land use.
Joint visits with other businesses in the area can be arranged so that comparisons can be made. A split visit with Shepherd Neame brewery in Faversham can be beneficial when studying the process as a whole, and noting the environmental and political issues.
Download the Key stage 4 PDF