Outdoor learning

Fun hands-on learning in line with    the National Curriculum

PRE-VISITS AVAILABLE Contact us to arrange your pre visit to discuss your School or Organisations visit.

 Learn in a fun outdoor environment.

Frampton Farm is a 26-acre small holding situated on the White cliffs of Dover and is in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the Kent Downs, with distant views of Dover Castle and the sea.

We are a small family farm with a mix of rescue farm animals as pets alongside our commercial ewes who we breed to sell at market or to other smallholders.

We have 10 breeds of sheep on the farm including Texel, Suffolk, Zwarble, Llyen, Southdown, Valias & Shetland.

We are pleased to be able to offer a number of education , giving students and teachers the opportunity to enjoy time with our mini pigs, Boer goats, pygmy goats, sheep, alpacas, chickens, cows and ducks. If you are visiting us during springtime and you will get to see our lambs and kid goats.

A visit to our Discovery Barn gives you a hands-on approach which are not only educational but fun and engaging at the same time.

Free School   Visits

As our farm is CEVAS accredited to provide educational visits we are entitled to receive funding through DEFRA under the Educational Access route which gives us the opportunity to offer 25 free school visits per year. These free sessions do get booked up quickly so please email us to enquire about the terms of the visits to see if your school could take advantage of one,  or be added to our 2025 list.    

Students attending our Alternative education provision help us to run the farm, care for the animals and help us grow vegetables. This gives them a sense of responsibility and pride.    

Your time on   our farm.

During your visit you can learn about how we care for all the animals as well as learning more about our environment & the wildlife on the farm. The students and teachers will be allowed into many of our paddocks for close up interaction with our animals. 

Our animals all graze outdoors but some need shelter from the rain so some paddocks have specially built animal shelters. We also have a number of outbuildings and stables which are used for housing poultry, giving birth or if any of our animals need medical care.

Children love to learn more facts about the animals like why we shear the sheep and alpacas, why sheep and goats have rectangular eyes. You can choose whether you would like us to teach farm to fork and which animal producing which meat. Even the teachers are surprised by some facts we tell them.

 Our school trip visits are for a maximum of 30 children, we are unable to safely accommodate any more than this at any one time.

Our  Horticulture area

We have an area of the farm which is dedicated to horticulture with a fruit & salad polytunnel, educational polytunnel for students to sow and grow their own produce, a green house, herb garden, vegetable patches and a fruit patch.

 We are able to offer educational visits on growing your own food, where the children get to join in sowing and harvesting.

Around the farm we have hedgerows and British native trees, and in 2024 we have already started to work alongside students to plant more trees, including a small apple orchard and plan to create two new garden areas, to include a sensory garden and a wildlife garden in 2025.

 Frampton Farm is a haven for wildlife including foxes, rabbits, badgers and birds. Although many trees have fallen over the years the family are working hard to plant thousands more UK native trees to not only encourage more wildlife but also to help the environment.

Curriculum    Based

We will happily tailor your visit to match your current curriculum learning. Many of our Spring / Summer 2024 school visits did a full day session, visiting and learning about  animal's in the morning and sowing seeds and learning about vegetables in the afternoon. If you are planning to come around lambing time, we recommend you book up in advance as this is a very popular time for school visits.

Karen & Hamilton (Ham) are our fun informative educational hosts, and they love to answer the children and teachers’ questions. They look forward to welcoming you all to Frampton Farm very soon.

Contact Karen today info@framptonfarm.co.uk  to arrange a pre visit and to discuss your school or establishments requirements.