Staunton Country Park School Visits Hampshire

Staunton Farm is a fantastic place to visit with children of all ages. The site contains a small farm containing goats, pigs, cows and rabbits to name a few! We also have a beautiful Walled Garden, tropical glasshouse, sensory garden and maze.

The site hosts an indoor and outdoor play area, tea rooms and grassy areas for a picnic.

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Staunton Farm is a great place to come for a school visit. Our sessions are all bespoke and tailored around you and your current topic. We are a safe, small and accessible site so perfect for the first school trip! 

We can do sessions based on any subject such as farm animals, minibeasts, plants, sensory or a completely bespoke topic. Our Education Officers are experienced and knowledgeable and can adjust their teaching to any age.
Guided school groups have the exclusive use of an indoor space to store their belongings and to eat lunch in case of bad weather. 

Staunton is easily accessible from the A3 or A27.

We offer a variety of topics ranging from farm sessions to plants, from sensory to rainforests. Each session is bespoke and we aim to tailor make each session based on the schools current topic. Sessions are typically 90 minutes long and include an Education Officer for the duration. Usually schools opt for a 90 minute morning session and then the rest of the day self guided to explore the farm at their leisure and enjoy our play areas.

Below is a list an brief description of our popular sessions:

Early Years

Animals and Us: Observe different animals in their habitats. Look at the similarities and differences between us and them.

Sensory Explorers: Use your senses to explore the farm or gardens. Touch, see, listen and smell your way around saving tasting for lunch!

The Story of Plants: Visit different flowers and trees around the gardens. Look at the similarities and differences between them. Learn about all the things a plant needs to grow!

Minibeast Safari: Time to take a peek at our tiny woodland friends using pots and magnifying glasses before meeting their larger exotic cousins.

Key Stage 1
Animals and Us: Identify common animals in their natural habitat, see what makes them who they are and compare animals with humans.
The Story of Plants: Visit different flowers and trees around the gardens. Look at the similarities and differences between them. Learn about all the things a plant needs to grow!

Minibeast Safari: Time to take a peek at our tiny woodland friends using pots and magnifying glasses before meeting their larger exotic cousins.

Pond Dipping: Use pond nets and buckets to delve into the watery world. See how animals have changed to survive here.

Key Stage 2

Animals and Us: Look at animals basic needs for survival. Learn how they move and what they eat before comparing them to humans.

Trip to the Tropics: Feel the humidity whilst exploring our glasshouse rainforest. Learn which plants have adapted to survive and meet exotic minibeasts.
The Story of Plants: Visit different flowers and trees around the gardens. Look at the similarities and differences between them. Learn about all the things a plant needs to grow!

Minibeast Safari: Look closely at a micro habitat. See how minibeasts get their food. Classify and compare legs, body parts and skeletons. 

Pond Dipping: Use pond nets and buckets to delve into the watery world. See how animals have changed to survive here.

Animal Wellbeing: Improve health and wellbeing by meeting, feeding and getting close to some of our animals. This can be doing practical tasks such as poo picking, topping up hay and cleaning shelters, or simply having a cuddle with an animal and some space to be.

AQA Unit Awards: Work towards gaining certificates with the AQA Unit Award Scheme. All sessions are bespoke and tailored to the students specific interests. Learn how to weigh poultry, clean a rabbits accommodation or handle a reptile!

Key Stage 3
Animal Wellbeing: Improve health and wellbeing by meeting, feeding and getting close to some of our animals. This can be doing practical tasks such as poo picking, topping up hay and cleaning shelters, or simply having a cuddle with an animal and some space to be. 

AQA Unit Awards: Work towards gaining certificates with the AQA Unit Award Scheme. All sessions are bespoke and tailored to the students specific interests. Learn how to weigh poultry, clean a rabbits accommodation or handle a reptile!

Key Stage 4

Animal Wellbeing: Improve health and wellbeing by meeting, feeding and getting close to some of our animals. This can be doing practical tasks such as poo picking, topping up hay and cleaning shelters, or simply having a cuddle with an animal and some space to be. 

AQA Unit Awards: Work towards gaining certificates with the AQA Unit Award Scheme. All sessions are bespoke and tailored to the students specific interests. Learn how to weigh poultry, clean a rabbits accommodation or handle a reptile!

Pearsons TECH award level 1/2 in Animal Care: A 2 year recognized TECH course in animal care. Components include: Animal handling, Animal accommodation and housing, Animal health and welfare

For school visits from 1 – 90 children (per education officer). Whole school visits can be arranged.

Wellbeing – 6 students

AQA Unit Award Scheme – 4 students

TECH award – 12 students (smaller groups can be mixed with other schools).

A visit to Staunton should be an experience, therefore we try not to use paper and pencils and instead try to immerse the children in their topic. All sessions are hands on so if you choose an animal session we can feed the pigs, stroke a ferret or hold a cockroach.

Photos and filming are more than welcome on the farm as long as correct permissions have been obtained.

Site specific risk assessments are given during the pre-visit. We still urge all teachers to complete their own risk assessments with the experience of their own class.

Staunton.education@hants.gov.uk

02392453405

School visits:

£7.25 for 1 guided session either a morning or afternoon (rest of the day to explore the farm at your own leisure)

£8.50 for 2 sessions all day guided

£6.50 for self guided sessions

1:3 free adults for Early Years
1:5 free adults for all other key stages
Essential carers and 1:1s free

Additional adults charged at standard admission

Minimum charge of £75.00 per 1 session

Wellbeing:

£75 per 90 minute session for up to 6 students

AQA:
£60 per hour for up to 4 students, plus a 1 off registration fee of £25 per studentTECH:
£1100 per student, per year

Appropriate clothing is required. Closed toe shoes at all times, hats and sun cream when hot, waterproofs and wellington boots when wet.

All the farms Education Officers are first aid trained. If not with an Education Officer then we have first aid points at reception or in the tea rooms.

Gift shop (£2.00 – £5.00 suitable as a guide)
Tea rooms
Grassy picnic areas
Inside picnic areas (guided groups only)
Toilets
Changing places toilet with a hoist and changing bench
Baby change
Indoor and outdoor play areas
Hand washing
First aid points
Plenty of coach and car parking

Staunton is accessible by wheelchair, however the paths are gravelly and can be quite wet and muddy during winter months.
We have a changing places toilet with a hoist and changing bench

Summer hours: 10.00 – 17.00
Winter hours: 10.00 – 16.00

Open 7 days a week year round

Thank you so much for a really perfect day again! 😃

We couldn’t ask for more! You make it such an informative, fun filled day for the children. Having the guided sessions makes the whole trip really easy, calm and enjoyable for the staff and volunteers. You are always so understanding and aware of the different needs of the children, but in a very discreet way.

St James Primary

We loved everything about it! The organization was so easy and the Education Officer was really brilliant with the children and her activities were pitched exactly at their level of understanding

St Marys Catholic Primary

The children loved the experience, there was so much to do when we weren’t pond dipping and they got so much out of the day.

Chichester Free School

We love this trip and do it every year. The Education Officer is so good with the children and pitches the activities just right.

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