Make the most of the outdoor classroom in the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

These pages are designed to help teachers find farms and estates in the North Wessex Downs where school-children can go for educational visits.

Take a few minutes to search by county for farms and estates near your school. Each entry has information about activities you can see and do on the farm and suitable age groups and support for teachers.

Check the News and Events page for information about Countryside Days Out in 2010.

Facilities will vary from farm to farm. Some provide opportunities to see livestock and farming in action, others have interesting countryside with wildlife or historic features and other attractions.

Farmers or members of their staff on farms that are not part of the Hampshire Country Learning Countryside Days Out network will guide visitors. Please discuss your requirements with a member of staff from the farm so that your school visit can be designed to meet your requirements and curriculum targets.

Resources for teachers are available on the FACE website. Comprehensive resources are tailored to the National Curriculum, and connected with the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto.

Hampshire Country Learning, based at Sparsholt College created these pages as part of the Countryside Education Network project during the Year of Food and Farming in 2007 to enable teachers to take children into the countryside. The North Wessex Downs AONB Sustainable Development Fund contributed to the Countryside Education Network project.

The project includes CEVAS training for farmers, in-school sessions with teachers, and teacher-training sessions.

Hampshire Country Learning collated all the information on these pages from the individual farms and estates. Every effort is made to ensure this information is correct, but the North Wessex Downs AONB is not responsible for the accuracy of information.