Teacher Led

Teacher led

Our education team (CRB checked) will lead various activities to fit in with all areas of the curriculum. We are happy to discuss your plans and tailor the day to your needs.

Experience the countryside and spice up the curriculum – see, touch, smell and have fun in a safe environment.

Food Farming and Countryside Days
Typical visits include visiting crops and finding out what familiar foodstuffs they turn into, identifying seeds and gaining knowledge of farming in the UK.   Feeding our farm animals, understanding animal welfare and finding out what crops we grow for animal feed.  In the Discovery Centre they will explore farming methods, food production, how our landscape has changed and very importantly the future of farming.  No visit to Barleylands would be complete without preparing and cooking a healthy snack from scratch using ingredients which they have seen on the farm. This can be anything from a healthy British pizza, seasonal vegetable soups to Barleylands oatie biscuits or yummy banana muffins.    Food is something which most children have experience, opinions and enthusiasm about.

Victorian Days
Barleylands is the ideal place for both KS1 and KS2 study of ‘The Victorians’.  Children will step back in time as Victorian farm labourers and find out how our land was being farmed in the 1800’s, with our education team playing the part of farm labourers, governess and cook!  In the Discovery Centre they will see what it was like to use a washboard and Victorian mangle.  They can churn some butter and bake some bread to take home.  Feed the animals and milk Molly before visiting our resident blacksmith, watch him forge a horseshoe and find out how important his role was during the Victorian era.  Children will also make a corn dolly and discover the history behind this harvest custom. Children are encouraged to come in Victorian dress.

WW2 Days
If you are studying  WW2 in History, then come to Barleylands where children will find out what was happening on the Home Front during WW2.  Children can use ‘old money’ to purchase their wartime rations which they will cook with. They will learn all about ‘dig for victory’, and have the opportunity to prepare and cook a ‘ Woolton pie’ (named after the Minister of Food during wartime) using their wartime rations! Why not enjoy some role play and come as evacuees!

Healthy Lunchbox Days
Children can discover the origin of their food and what food groups they belong to. They will find out what makes a ‘healthy’ lunchbox and design their own.  Children will make a bread roll from scratch, make a smoothie and prepare the food for their lunchbox to take back to school.

Little Red Hen Days
Where better to follow the story that on the farm itself!  Listen to Little Red Hen’s Story, take a tractor and trailer ride to the wheat field, grind some wheat in our Discovery Centre, make bread in the Barleylands kitchen, visit the farm and meet the hens.

Habitats and Changes
Visit the impressive Birds of Prey academy.  Find out  about animal habitats and life styles, how they are suited to them, the impact humans have on them and how to protect certain species.

Where does my breakfast come from?
Most children do not know where the cereal they have in their breakfast bowl comes from?
Come and find out what seeds UK farmers need to grow to make the bread you toast and the cereal you have in the morning.  Children will taste a variety of breakfast cereals: cheerios, weetabix, porridge and cornflakes with milk.  Find out how much milk a cow produces and visit the cows in the farm park.  Milk Molly (she is not a real cow), visit our farming museum and watch our dairy DVD in the cinema. Visit our hens that lay your eggs and visit our pigs that produce your bacon.  Children can visit crops, grind seeds and really find out where their food comes from. 

We can also visit your school for either a short assembly or class talk for a cost of £50 (fee redeemable on booking a farm visit)
To discuss your visit to Barleylands please contact Karen Watson 01268 290232 karen@barleylands.co.uk

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