School Day Visits
A regenerative farm tour is at the heart of every school day visit
Your class can explore food production on a working organic farm, learning about dairy farming and vegetable growing in a market garden.
Choose a theme to complement the farm tour and tie in with your topics in school. All themes are differentiated and linked to the KS1 and KS2 curriculums.
Activities will vary by season, weather, access and the natural resources available (examples are given below). If there is a specific activity or curriculum focus you would really like to look at, please make a request and we will work to incorporate this.
Marvellous Minibeasts
Take a walk out onto the farmland and explore where minibeasts inhabit. Find out how they live and why they thrive at Bore Place.
|
|
Example activities
- Minibeast hunt in logs, leaf litter or grassland
- Meadow walk (summer)
- Pond dipping (limited number of sessions in spring/summer)
- Predator-prey and camoflage games
|
|
|
|
KS1 curriculum links
- Food chains
- Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
- What animals need to survive
- Habitats and microhabitats, and how they provide for animals
- Animals have offspring
|
|
KS2 curriculum links
- Food chains plus consumers, producers and decomposers
- Predator-prey relationships
- Adaptations to suit environment
- Life cycles and stages
|
|
|
|
Habitat Detectives
Let's look at some of the habitats we have on the farm. Become an ecologist or countryside ranger, and help us monitor the animals that call Bore Place home.
|
|
Example activities
- Seasonal survey e.g. worm, dung beetle, hedgerow
- Habitat trail, comparing types
- Footprint survey tunnels and mammal ID
- Nest building
- Animal signs scavenger hunt
|
|
|
|
KS1 curriculum links
- Food chains
- Carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
- What animals need to survive
- Habitats and microhabitats, and how they provide for animals
- Animals have offspring
|
|
KS2 curriculum links
- Food chains
- Predator-prey relationships
- Adaptations to suit environment
- Classification and using a key
|
|
|
|
Sow and Grow
Spend some time in the garden with us. Find out about how plants live and how we can help them to grow.
|
|
Example activities
- Parts of a plant, germination and pollination games
- Visit the garden to see the range of plants and what parts we can eat
- Seed sowing
- Wildflower seed bombs
|
|
|
|
KS1 curriculum links
- Basic structure of plants
- What do plants need to grow
- Adaptations to suit environment
|
|
KS2 curriculum links
- Functions of parts of a plant
- What plants need to grow plus nutrients and space
- Lifecycles - pollination, seed formation and dispersal
- Adaptations to suit environment
|
|
|
|
Field to Fork (single class only)
Find out where our food comes from. Think about how we know our food is good, and have a chance to try some Bore Place foods.
|
|
Example activities
- Foraging or harvesting ingredients
- Look at natural vs. processed foods
- Cook a simple food
- Dairy product taste testing
- Butter making
|
|
|
|
KS1 curriculum links
- Where food comes from
- Healthy eating
- Nutrition
- Basic cooking skills
|
|
KS2 curriculum links
- Where food comes from
- Healthy eating
- Nutrition
- Practical cooking
- Food seasonality
- How ingredients are grown, reared and processed
|
|
|
|
Forest School taster session (class size max. 20)
Come with us on an adventure into the woods to develop your survival skills. Work together to create a tasty campfire treat.
|
|
Example activities
- Sensory games
- Den building
- Tool use
- Fire lighting skills
- Campfire cooking
|
Programme benefits for KS1 and KS2
- Physical and mental wellbeing from spending time in nature
- Learning through first-hand experiences
- Develop understanding of risk in an unfamiliar environment
- Engage all of the senses
|
Most programmes are suitable, or adaptable, for wheelchair users and visitors with limited mobility. Teachers are welcome for pre-visits (please book via education@boreplace.org).
Policies, procedures and risk assessments
Please click here for our School Day Visits Handbook.
Need help with costs or transport?
Bore Place is committed to being an affordable educational venue. We offer a subsidised rate for small-class state schools and classes with a high number of children receiving pupil premiums. East Surrey Rural Transport Partnership is a not-for-profit company offering very competitive prices to schools in a number of areas.