Dick Whittington Farm Park

FREE Animal Road Show

In support of the year of food and farming, Dick Whittington Farm Park is pleased to offer local schools a FREE animal road show visit!

The Dick Whittington Animal Road Show Team, will be taking a selection of animals, reptiles and bugs, out on the road and into local schools, giving a short 20 - 30 minute presentation on how animals live, what they eat and how they are of benefit to people.

Primary schools in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire will soon be crawling with ‘teachers pets’ Spiders, bugs and reptiles are to give pupils a live, three-dimensional view of a rural environment some of them know little or nothing about.

The idea of taking the countryside into the classroom was devised by staff at the award-winning Dick Whittington Farm Park, Little London, Longhope.

Park owner Chris Turney explained: “We tend to think that all children have had a close-up view of the creatures those of us who live in the country often take for granted”

“But many town and city children have only ever seen them on television or in picture books”

“They have never actually held a rabbit, or touched a reptile or stroked a duckling”

“All the creatures we shall be taking into the classroom will be completely harmless, even the big, black spooky spiders we have just introduced to the farm park”

“As well as seeing and touching the creatures, the children will also be told about their countries of origin, how they live and what they eat”

“Many of them have extremely exotic backgrounds, so it will be a visual, hands-on educational lesson in both the environment and geography”

Tens of thousands of children swarm to the farm park every year to see the alpacas, deer, pigs, sheep, rabbits, goats, cockatiels, gerbils, mice, fish, chipmunks, hamsters, chinchillas, terrapins, tree frogs, chicks, ducklings, dragon lizards and the two stars which have featured on Central TV South, Rosie and Maggie, the pedigree Highland cow and bull.