Classroom Speakers

We are able to support learning in school through talks and hands on activities.

Our volunteers can help you in many different ways, such as ‘on farm visits’ or other outside learning experiences. We also have specifically trained farmer speakers who will happily support projects on food, farming and the countryside within the classroom. This is useful if your class is unable to visit a farm or more usually to give your class some background to a proposed farm visit.

Our volunteer farmers will bring a variety of props to enrich their visit, including crop samples, products, games, and PowerPoint presentations. However their greatest asset is their lifetime of work and experience on the farm, which can bring the whole topic to life.

Please fill in the below form to request a classroom speaker.

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We are able to support learning in school through talks and hands on activities.

Many classroom speaker visits are of a general nature but all can be focused on a specific area of learning from ‘A Day In the Life of a Farmer’ to health and safety, recycling, renewable energy, crop production, animal health, careers within the rural industries, conservation, economics, financial planning and budgeting, plus many more.

Classroom speaker visits can last from 20-30 minutes for younger age groups to up to 2 hours or more for older children or to discuss more specific topics. All of this will be discussed with the farmer volunteer before the visit and it is helpful for them to be guided by you on where to park, to whom they should report on entering the school and to be guided to the classroom by an adult. All classroom speaker visits are provided free of charge.

Classroom speaker visits can happen all year round but please bear in mind that the farming year has very busy spells. It is therefore helpful if you can book your request for a farmer speaker a term in advance.

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School Details

School Address*

Teachers Details

For use on the day
Head Teacher approval is essential, failure to confirm approval will void the request*

Pupils

Please note that larger groups will require more resources and time to plan. If you have a particularly large group to accommodate, please contact your local Project Coordinator before filling in this form. Their details are on the ‘In Your Area’ page.

Preferred date for visit

Please choose which days are most suitable*
NB – Visits should take approximately 1 to 2 hours excluding travel time.
NB: Classroom talks can take 20 minutes or longer depending on the age of pupils and volunteer time available

Topics & Learning Outcomes

Please be as specific as possible

Photo Permissions

We at RHET kindly seek your permission to use your school name and/or photographs for future publicity. Photographs are an integral part of any charity publicity, giving body to a story about RHET’s work and enabling RHET to encourage more schools and teachers to become involved in taking the classroom to the countryside. Photos may be used in press, television & radio, newsletters, promotional material, this website and our social media pages. Please note that you should check and comply with your local authority guidelines for photographic and film consent before agreeing or disagreeing with this section.

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