Educational visits to Manor Farm

Our friendly staff will help your school trip to be a day out to remember!

Manor Farm is steeped in history, the origins of which date back to medieval times. The historic farmyard keeps the feel of a traditional Hampshire farmstead and offers a valuable insight into times gone by.

Today, our modern facilities and rural setting encourage children to connect with nature and learn how to care for farm animals.

Our experiences

Our led activities are appropriate for early years, KS1 and KS2. We can adapt activities for KS3 as well as higher education, extracurricular and SEN groups.

Farm Experience

Victorian Life

Go back in time to understand life as a Victorian child.

Learn about household chores such as washing, chamber pots, rag rug making or take part in an authentic Victorian school lesson within our historic farmhouse. Discover how Victorians preserved fresh foods for lean times. Try Victorian Etiquette.

Explore the historic machinery and Victorian farming and play Victorian games. Staff dress in period costume and bring learning to life through engaging role play.

Victorian kitchen
Woman in period costuming demonstrating to some children inside an old farmhouse
Three boys sitting at a desk in an old fashioned classroom
Three boys sitting at a desk in an old fashioned classroom
Farm Experience

Wartime farm

Our authentic wartime setting and costumed characters help children to experience what life was like at a 1940's farm.

Experience a wartime school lesson, our Anderson shelter and the sound of an air raid siren.

Learn about how farmers helped during the war, plus develop your understanding of rationing, billeting, the art of code breaking and how to become a secret spy.

Try simple 1940's style dancing, and learn about Make Do and Mend Crafts using recycled materials.

Wartime rations
Group of adults wearing wartime farming clothing
Inside of an Anderson shelter
Inside of an Anderson shelter
Demonstrating parts of a sunflower to a group of children
A group of children pond dipping with a net
Planting seeds in a paper pot
Den building area
Farm Experience

Farm and Nature

Meet our friendly residents! Learn how to feed, groom and care for the animals through a series of interactive games.

Discover the importance of animal produce, chicken and eggs, woolly sheep and have a go at carding.

Learn how to care for plants and plant a seed to take home. This is a real hands-on day with lots of fun on the farm.

Explore animal habitats to see what plants and animals we can find.

Children feeding goats
Sheep
Children in front of a barn with a tractor
Feeding a piglet

Our facilities

We have cafés, indoor play in the play barn, a shop, accessible toilets and hand wash areas. Our purpose-built cabin is your base for the day and a place to eat lunch.

Access and parking for buses is provided.

We also offer a SEN backpack/bag for children who might find school trips overwhelming. Each bag reflects the activities we offer, so if the child needs to come away from the group, they can have similar experiences.

Handwashing facilities
Play barn
Children sitting on a bench in front of the education cabin
SEN bags and backpacks

Prices and how to book

To book your day email [email protected] or phone 01489 787055.

  • Guided visit £9.50 per child with one free adult for every five paid children.
  • Additional adults £12 each.
  • 1:1 Carers free with paying child.
  • Minimum charge £140.
  • All guided activities are for 2.5 hours between 10am and 1pm, including 30-minute lunch break.
  • Please enquire about self-guided group rates.
  • Guided visit
  • £9.50
  • per child