Subsidised Rural Residentials for Inspiring School Children
Description
Farms for City Children is a charity founded by Michael and Clare Morpurgo in 1976, that gives school children the chance to become an integral part of one of our three working farms: Nethercott in Devon, Lower Treginnis in Pembrokeshire and Wick Court, Gloucestershire, for a whole week.
During their week-long stay, the children and their teachers live and work at the farms, explore the countryside and find out where good food comes from. They also discover self-confidence as they conquer fears, grow in self-belief as they overcome challenges as part of hard working teams, develop new friendships, create stories and poems filled with the vibrant sounds and language of the rural environment and learn to see a bigger, brighter future than they might realise exists beyond their crowded city horizons. Today, Farms for City Children welcomes 3,000 children per year for a week-long stay on our farms.
Our team at Treginnis is led by our Farm School Manager Dan–an experienced former primary school teacher, who will be your host for the week. Dan and his team will guide the children through all farming activities and will give you all the information and equipment you need to keep your children safe and well throughout the visit.
Lower Treginnis Farm sits on the stunningly beautiful site of a 700 year old farmstead and is the most westerly farm in Wales. Just outside of Saint Davids - the Uk's smallest city- Lower Treginnis provides visitors with an incredible mix of wild and windswept Welsh sheep farming heritage and the dramatic cliffs and wildlife of the Pembrokeshire coastline.
Maximum occupancy - 39 children, 6 adults
Indicative Farming activities include:
Maximum occupancy – 36 children, 5 adults
Indicative farming activities include:
• Feeding and watering poultry and pigs
• Grooming and mucking out donkeys
• Feeding and milking goats
• Commercial sheep farming – tending lambs in Spring, checking livestock health, herding sheep
• Kitchen garden – sowing, potting, harvesting, tasting fruits and vegetables
• Field-scale cropping – planting, harvesting and packaging potatoes, swedes or pumpkins
• Cooking – preparing nutritious meals from the produce harvested on the farm
• Log sawing – mastering the art of splitting and sawing logs for the fire
• Countryside and Coastal walk through the fields and down to the beautiful sandy beach
• Village walk to the historic city of Saint Davids
For further information please see our brochure:
https://issuu.com/farmsforcitychildren9/docs/farms_for_city_children_-_school_brochure_-_v19.9?fr=sMGJkNzQ0NTgxMA
We hope to see you and your class down on the farm very soon
