Home education courses and course materials
- Happy Hedgerows guided walk
- Courses
- Course materials
A team of home educated junior conservationists have created two new permissive access woods. These are connected by a public footpath and form part of a new five-kilometre Guided Walk, created through and around Hill View Farm.
Walkers can stop, look, listen and learn about conservation work and the farming landscape through QR codes, attached to waypoints of interest, along the Walk.
These waypoints are marked by seven newly-planted (2026) Wayfaring Trees, protected until they grow strong, inside pink tree tubes. The QR codes that connect you to all the Happy Hedgerows information about the Walk are attached to these tubes.
Wayfaring Trees have been used since at least the Middle Ages to mark paths and prevent travellers from getting lost.
Before you walk
Waypoint 1 The Food Wood (talking trees)
Waypoint 2 The farm in the landscape
Waypoint 2a The hedgerows
Waypoint 3 The research wood
Waypoint 4 The thatched houses
Waypoint 5 Woods and fields
Waypoint 6 Wild bird habitat
Waypoint 7 Edge of the Downs
Walk and talk. Daphne
Walk and talk. The brothers
A selection of the in-person courses we offer to home-educated children at Hill View farm
Links to the course materials - descriptions of the experiments students work on during their in-person courses at Hill View Farm.
Balloon rocket
A simple rocket made with balloons is propelled down a string and we explore the force pushing it forward.
Hotwheels friction
In this investigation we use Hotwheels cars to learn about the force of friction from different surfaces.
Lego train
To explore the relationship between the distance a Lego train takes to stop and the speed it was travelling.
Hotwheels ramp
A Hotwheels car collides with a small plastic box. Upon collision, the box-car system skids a short distance before stopping. The stopping distance is measured.
Drag
We explore how differently shaped objects experience drag in a liquid. The different shapes result in different times taken to drop to the bottom of a tall container.
NERF foam rocket
We use a foam rocket launcher to explore how projectiles move through the air.
Stomp rocket
We use a foam stomp rocket to explore how projectiles move through the air.
Air resistance
We explore how differently shaped cars are affected by air resistance (drag).
Fizzy rockets
Make a small rocket from a Fruitshoot drinks bottle.
Rice puzzle
Friction in action
