Download - Greatworth Primary School

10th June 2016
OX17 2PD
Dear Greatworth Primary School,
Thank you for your support over the past year as we have set up the
education centre; I am writing to inform you of our plans for the future and
the changes that will be happening.
As you may already be aware, I am leaving teaching in a classroom this
summer to come full time on the farm, in order to grow the education
centre and allow more flexibility for schools. However, my intention
remains to keep strong links to the curriculum and create purposeful and
memorable learning experiences. I understand the pressures on teachers
from first-hand experience so really do want to tailor the farm visits to fit in
with learning in school.
We have loved the ‘Our Partner Farm’ scheme and feel it has gone well as
the children have seen the seasonal changes and have had a sense of
ownership with the farm. We want to continue this next year, however, we
felt that termly visits were not entirely beneficial as particularly through
the colder months there wasn’t a lot of change on the farm. We are now
advertising the ‘Our Partner Farm’ scheme as a 4 visit option. Thus
providing schools with a visit per season rather than a visit per term;
starting from September.
We recognise that your school have used the ‘Our Partner Farm’ scheme
across the key stages instead of classes and are aware that with the new
system each group will only have 2 visits. This seems a shame as we’re
trying to engage them with seasonality and give them a close connection to
the farm so with regards to the new costings, which I will come onto, we
would like to offer you an extra deal.
As you understand, the prices we charged last year were very low as we
were just trying to establish ourselves, our days were limited and we were
still tweaking visits to make them work more effectively. This year, our
prices have increased to make it a more sustainable project and the prices
advertised to other schools are as follows:
The ‘Our Partner Farm Scheme’ for 4 visits is £800 for the year.
A day visit is £180 for 20 children and £7 per extra child.
As loyal customers already we are prepared to knock 10% off of those
prices for you; bringing the partnership down to £720 for the 4 visits.
However, as I have already mentioned I understand you may want to stick
to 6 visits and for this we are prepared to offer it to you at £900 for the 6
visits. This is an offer just for you and we would appreciate your discretion
on it.
Other things you may be interested in are that we are hoping to build a
cloakroom to enable the process of changing wellies and coats to be a bit
smoother. We also hope that at some point in the future we will be able to
afford a passenger trailer so that we can provide rides for the children. Any
other changes we will update you on as and when they come along.
Finally, on a personal note, I will be available next year for supply teaching
when I don’t have schools on the farm. I will be doing it privately and if you
are ever interested, please do not hesitate to contact me. I also intend to do
some 1:1 extra tuition using the farm for learning; if any of your
parents/pupils are interested please do pass on my details.
Thank you again for your enthusiasm and support,
Yours sincerely
Rosie Jeffries
Farm Education Manager