Residential Journey
Welcome to Wick Court
For the past two years we have run an extremely successful residential journey to Wick Court, a working farm, situated in Gloucestershire. Wick Court was a dream of Michael Morpugo, a children's author, who thought it would be wonderful to share the workings of a farm with 'city' children. The experience is described as a week of 'Muck and Magic', where the children are allowed to jump in puddles, roll in the dirt, learn to milk cows and see piglets born.
This journey is of enormous social and educational value and an experience unlike any other for the children who go. We pack a lot into the 7 days that the children are away, with a programme of activities to test and develop their initiative, social skills, responsibility, independence, stamina, persistence and ability to cooperate and work together.
The environment is as secure as any can be. We have exclusive use of the farm which means that only our children and staff along with farm staff will be on the premises. Children are fully supervised the entire time and never left to their own devices.
Here are pictures of some of the children getting up close to the animals
The picture of the Gloucester calf was taken ten days after her birth. You can tell she is a Gloucester cow because of the white marking run down the lower part of her back. These are the only Gloucester cows in England. The milk from these cows produces Gloucester Cheese. The cheese can only be purchased from the farm or a shop in Jermaine Street in London.
The children worked with a poet during their time at Wick Court. Here is a poem written by: Jessica, Nieem, Harry Wren, Tony, Lauren, Christina, Adam, Harry London, Kelly, Daniel, Alex, Emily
It is morning all the roosters croak, ever body is busy except me, everybody Jasper, Jasper is so adorable, there are three dogs that bark all the time Good runners, horses are smooth they never stop running all day all night Evan is sweet, his long eye lashes, he likes to flirt around the girls Pigs are so greedy when food comes, over the hills and far away at the crack of dawn Ducks and geese screech as other animals and people come into their territory Chickens just smile and wink at each other like they are human Erny the donkey thinks he is a cow, he usually comes to be milked. You can feed a donkey hay The ducks wait patiently as the dark shed opens They race to the spine chilling pond How does a brown cow make white milk when it only eats green grass. Yellow is a beautiful buttercup, yellow is a shimmering sun Yellow is a sweet lemon, and sometimes yellow is yellow
Link to Page 2 of the Wick Court Journey - January 2006
To get a better idea of what life is like on a working farm, take a look at the video footage by clicking on the icon at the bottom of this page............
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