Highfields Happy Hens

School visits to Highfields Happy Hens provide an enjoyable time for adults and children alike. From just £4.00 per person (£4.50 for guaranteed use of the indoor room) we provide you with an experience that will never be forgotten!

We have a policy to help with your costs, this is, for every five children attending the trip, one adult can accompany them free of charge. All other adults must be paid for at the regular cost of £4.00 (£4.50 for guaranteed use of the indoor room) per person (optional extra’s, such as, eggs to take home, buffet food, etc are not included within this policy).

Please download the Primary Visit Pack for full details and booking form!

The basic package consists of a trip around the farm and includes the following:

Tractor and trailer rides.

A guided tour of the farm.

Egg collecting.

Animal feeding.

A visit to Highfields Happy Hens can be as long or as short as you want it to. If you would like to spend more time on the farm, there are many more activities that can fill your day, these include:

Egg train rides (waterproofs needed in bad weather)

Bouncy castle (weather permitting)

Hay Play area

The Corn Story

Henrietta's Nature Trail

Fields to play in

Picnic areas

The farm shop (selling a variety of toys and stationary which the children may like to buy)

We have a great room containing tables and chairs. There is plenty of room for a meal or picnic (a buffet meal can be provided by us at an extra cost) if the weather is bad, it could also be used as a work area for you if you were planning to do any activities whilst on the farm. The room can also be used for other functions, such as, fun days, a work area, alpha away days etc.

Outdoor/ indoor toys can be hired from us at an extra cost

We have a parachute, which you are welcome to use (at an extra cost)

Please see contents of the pack for additional options, which will help to make your trip as fun as possible.

Visiting Highfields Happy Hens can help you to cover many areas of the national curriculum, we can help with many topics, not just the obvious, but others too, such as,

Farming

Animals

Growing

Size

Shape

Throughout the tour of Highfields, the children will gain a great deal of hands on experience, taking part in farm activities such as,

Holding and petting animals

Animal feeding

Egg collecting

This will help to encourage the children to explore many areas of the national curriculum, without them even knowing it!!

There are endless games, experiments and activities, which can be carried out either on the farm or back in the classroom. We have produced a book of learning activities (some of which is work sheets that can be copied), which is linked directly to your visit to Highfields Happy Hens.

This book is priced at £12.50 and offers a range of activity ideas, both for on the farm and back in the classroom, it is linked in with key stages 1 and 2. We recommend that you purchase this book before your farm visit in order to plan ahead!

For an extra 70p per child, they can take ½doz eggs home, which they have collected themselves. This provides each child with a great treat, which they can be proud of.

All of the eggs that the children are buying will be stamped with the name of your school, this is just a little extra something that the kids will love.

Each child will be given a small box in which to put their six eggs, their names are then put onto each one, making sure the correct eggs go home with each child. The boxes are then given out at the end of the trip (to prevent too many omelets!).

From an extra £3.50 per person, we can provide you with a great buffet meal, this will take much of the stress out of the trip as you will not need to prepare picnic’s etc.

If adults would like to join the children with their meal, please add an extra 50p onto the cost of each meal (per adult). To help us cater for all of your needs, we will need actual numbers at least one week before your trip.

From past experience, we have noticed that the children always enjoy a visit to the shop to buy a souvenir. This can sometimes be very time consuming and stressful for you and other adults, while we are more than happy for you to do this as part of your trip, we have produced some ‘Goody Bags’ which are pre ordered, meaning no decisions and no needing to look after spending money.

For just £3.00, each child can take home a ‘Goody Bag’ with various treats and toys etc (some of which are not available in our shop!) We can either hand them out to the children as they leave the farm or we can five them to you to hand out later. There are two ‘Goody Bags’ to choose from.

We now have a selection of great games/toys which your group can hire out for the day, there is a variety of different things which can provide hours of fun giving the opportunity to extend your visit and not having to bring games with you.

For just £10.00 you will be provided with our ‘Active Pack’, which contains the following:

1 x Rip Tag Belt

3 x French Skipping – Half Width

2 x Skipping Rope Group Jumbo (4.5m)

4 x Skipping Rope Individual (2.1m)

4 x Ankle Skip

4 x Lolo Ball

4 x Whopper Hopper Junior (52cm)

3 x Stompers

4 x Catch a cup

Our 3.5metre parachute is very popular with children of all ages and provides endless fun!

Your group can hire this for just £5.00, it can be used indoors or outdoors so is great as a rainy day option or as a light breeze in the hot summer.

We have always included our egg train as part of the basic package. Although recently, due to insurance, we have had to make some rules for it, they are as follows:

Only one person per carriage

Minimum height 1 metre

Hold tight at all times

Keep hands and feet in carriage at all times

Remain seated – no standing!!

If you feel that lots of the children on the trip are under 1 metre tall, we recommend that we do not use the egg train, as some children may become upset. If this is the case then please let us know ASAP.

The driver of the egg train adapts the speed depending on the age and abilities of the children, but will never exceed 20kmph (this speed has been tested, and is felt to be a safe speed for anybody 1 metre tall and over!)