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The Learning and Discovery Team provides high quality education services. Contact the team on 01433 620373 or email us
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Student and teacher resources and our environmental education centres - Education fact sheets
Curriculum-linked factsheets and resources for students and teachers - Family and community
Day and residential visits at centres across the Peak District
Farm Visits: Where Does Our Food Come From?
Key Stage: 2
Location: Riding House Farm, Castleton or Beechenhill Farm, Ilam
Duration: Available as a half day
Why not combine a Farm Visit with our Rocks and Soils, Village Study (Castleton or Hartington) or Exploring My Sense of Place programmes? Please contact us for further information
Farm Visits aim to take us back to basics as we take our food, and where it comes from, for granted. A visit to a typical Peak District farm will encourage children to:
- Understand where their food comes from and how it is produced
- Make links between the products we buy and the sustainable management of the countryside and the Peak District National Park
- Understand that landscapes are constantly changing and the role that farming plays in this
- Think how climate change may affect our countryside and farming practices
- Use simple fieldwork techniques to investigate the farmland and surrounding countryside
Learning Objectives:
Farm visits are excellent for providing cross-curricular connections between:
- Sustainable development
- Citizenship and PSHE
- Geographical and scientific enquiry
- Life processes, living things, humans and other animals
- Contrasting landscapes
- Food production
To book a ‘Farm Visit’
Please contact Kate Hall (01457 855487) our Learning & Discovery Administrator
To discuss a ‘Farm Visit’
Please contact Andrew Battye (01433 622011) our Learning & Discovery Officer for Primary visits
Download the Risk Assessment for ‘Farm Visit’ (33KB) (pdf)
Download our Teachers Notes for ‘Farm Visit’ (61KB) (pdf)
