La FEE welcomes your discovery class projects
Throughout the year, the Ferme Européenne des Enfants welcomes schools for day trips or week-long educational stays focused on exploration, wonder, and learning in contact with nature. The Farm team leverages its pedagogical experience to tailor stays according to teachers’ educational projects, emphasizing specific learning objectives.
Exchange stays involving multiple schools, both French and foreign, are possible and have resulted in beautiful stories of lasting encounters, throughout the history of la FEE.
Class accommodation is provided in the 3 guest houses, which can be separated if multiple schools are visiting, or combined for a larger project, accommodating up to 65 students and their accompanying staff.
Examples of workshops
Sharing farm life
Taking care of animals
Every morning, children feed the chickens, rabbits, ducks, geese, ponies, goat… In the “cuddle corner,” they participate according to the seasons in the hatching of chicks, ducklings…
“From wheat to cake”
Children harvest the wheat, turn the mills, sift their flour… They go to the chicken coop to collect eggs and prepare their cakes for snack time every day.
“From sheep to wool”
In the afternoon, they feed and shear the sheep’s wool, wash and dye the wool with plants. Depending on each child’s project, the wool will be carded, spun, woven, or knitted.
Jams
In summer, picking currants, blackcurrants, raspberries to make jam… In October, discover the apple press, make applesauce, a little pot of jelly, or even chestnut cream.
The vegetable garden
Sowing, planting, watering, harvesting according to the seasons…
Discovering the environment and heritage
Fun and creation with renewable energies
Lighting the goat’s house with the force of the river water, building a solar boat, or creating a solar music box…
Who lives in the river?
Discover the fish food chain, fish in the river for different insects and crustaceans, determine the water pollution level based on the diversity of species living in the river (biotic index), and become aware of the impact of human activities on biodiversity.
“SOS trees”
Discover their origin, growth, their close relationship with humans and their many inhabitants (birds, insects, plants…). Children plant trees from collected seeds and can discover them by climbing!
Exploring the forest and its inhabitants
Discovering the richness of fauna and flora, following animal tracks or making an herbarium, going to drink from the source and taking a detour to the fossil quarry.
Heritage workshop
Introducing children to woodworking, carpentry, and joinery, forging, slate or tile roofing, building their birdhouse Architecture Learning to make cob, flint masonry, bricks… building huts, discovering Norman rural heritage.
Opening up to the world
Workshops are led by professional instructors in English, French, or Spanish, allowing children to approach languages in a playful and concrete way.
Every morning and afternoon, before we split up into different workshops, we meet in the barn to exchange, according to the children’s nationalities, how to say hello in different countries, sing songs in all languages… During quiet times, children can write their logbook in different languages…
Artistic, cultural, and sports activities
Music
Discover and share the passion for music, alone or in small groups, with professional musicians
Theater
Improvise, make masks, and natural costumes with British or French professional actors
Circus
Children learn juggling, bolas, pyramids, trapeze, beam, rola-bola… and prepare for the big end-of-week show
Drawing and painting
The artist’s workshop invites each child to freely discover hidden talents for painting, drawing…
Modeling
Working with clay, letting imagination express itself
Land Art
Creating from natural elements, raw materials provided by animals and plants.
Sports activities
Forest hikes, table tennis, football, rounders, basketball, “thèque”, badminton, outdoor games…
Dates & rates
La FEE welcomes students from across Europe with their teachers during the school year for a discovery stay.
Weekly Stay
Schools are welcome for multi-day stays with accommodation, allowing them to fully experience the Farm way of life, in line with their educational project.
Day Stay
Subject to availability, it is also possible to visit for the day without accommodation, participating in workshops according to your educational project.