Book your Key Stage Two Visit to Godstone Farm!

Choose from the following activities:

• Meet the Animals – A chance to get up close to and meet the small animals.  The session takes place inside the animal interactions barn, rabbit walk or on the animal interactions lawn with the chance to see, feed, and learn all about small animals including rabbits, chicks, chickens, guinea pigs and our oldest resident George the tortoise.
• Pig Talk – A short talk on our perfect piggies and the opportunity to help the farmer feed one and to watch them enjoying their food. We run a successful all year-round breeding programme so will try to include piglets where possible.
• Pond Activities (Double Session) – Enter our gated area with 3 identification stations and jetties. Grab your net & tray, kneel on our pads and dig deep to discover the delights of our man made, Surrey Hills-fed Warren Island pond.
• Minibeasts & Habitats – Come and explore our minibeast garden. With your booklet and magnifying glass come and investigate a variety of minibeasts, try some hands-on classifying and explore a variety of minibeast habitats looking at adaptations.
• Reptiles and their Adaptations – Come and learn all about our reptiles – learn what makes a reptile and compare the difference between our bearded dragon and our leopard gecko. Look at our snakes and compare their differences in sizes, colours and the foods that they eat.
• Bird Talk – Come and meet and greet our variety of feathered friends in all shapes and sizes from rheas to chickens, our wonderful owl Echo and our loud Ducks! Learn about their adaptations and their journey from egg to full grown bird!
  * Please note that during periods of avian flu, this activity will be unavailable. An alternative activity will be offered.
• Equine Talk – Come say hello to our donkeys and ponies. See the difference in their size and learn how to measure in ‘hands’. Take a look at their shoes, their eyes and learn more about their fantastic memory and the jobs they help us with both historically and still today! Compare and contrast the difference between the two.
• Barn Talk – Peep into the main barn and see if you can spot our cute goat kids, some spring lambs or some gorgeous alpacas. It’s always a lovely experience to explore the Barn and hear about the wonderful animals, have a turn at milking our goat Gloria.
• What makes a seed Grow? – Where does our food come and why farming is so important? A session which looks at classifying a range of seeds we use here on the farm, looking at what the seeds need to grow, taking a look at how vegetables grow, plus what happens above and below the ground. Getting the beds ready and planting seeds/plants in our schools garden.
• Lambing Talk & Activities – Lambing is one of the busiest times on the farm, we will look at scans , talk about the process of lambing, take a look in our lambing toolbox to see what tools we use for lambing on the farm and have a go at using or lambing box to see if you can help out our cardboard sheep!
• Dinosaur Walk Self-Lead Tour – Come and explore our Dinosaur trail! Come into our woods and see if you can find our dinosaurs from the world of Dinosaur ROAR! Using our trail booklet you can follow the trail and learn all about the different dinosaurs and their different sizes, skills and bodies. Find out facts, such as how big were the teeth of a Tyrannosaurus Rex or how long was a diplodocus.