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- Fun Activity Programme
- Junior Cert Geography Field Trip
- Junior Cert Ecology and Physics Field Trip
- 2 Day Transition Year Team-building Trip
Fun Activity Programme
In the last year we had over 2,000 Irish teenagers got back to their roots here at Causey Farm - this is a brilliant programme for team-bonding and fun, and is suitable for all secondary school classes.
They all really love getting down to basics, eating their own home-made bread after a busy day on the farm and bog. The programme lasts for 4 hours and includes:
Bodhrán Session
Each student plays a traditional bodhrán and learns to accompany the different rhythms of traditional Irish music including jigs, polkas and reels.
Céilí Dancing
We can teach any group The Siege of Ennis - it is a fabulous class bonding activity and even the most reticent of classes are laughing before long.
Bonding Challenges
Simple fun activities designed to encourage people to stretch their capabilities and to embrace teamwork.
Trip to the Bog & Traditional Turf-Cutting
Tractor-Trailer ride down to the bog, where students discover how the bogs were formed, and the history surrounding them. Optional Bog-jumping (change of clothes required).
Sugán (Straw) Rope Making
Students make ropes from straw. This plentiful material had numerous uses around farms, from furniture-making to tying animals together on fair day.
Sheepdog Demonstration
See how our dogs control the sheep and how they help the farmer with his work.
Farm Visit
Meet the farmyard animals and maybe even milk a cow.
Make Soda Bread
Everyone makes their own brown bread and we eat it later with butter and jam and drinks.
Junior Cert Geography Field Trip
Farm Walk and Discussion Session (1 hour)
Students are introduced to the work on the farm. We discuss the inputs and outputs of the farm production cycle, and the work carried out from season to season. This 300 acre farm produces beef cattle, sheep, wheat and barley.
We provide a curriculum-based study document to each student which has a number of questions to trigger their enquiries and over a morning spent visiting the fields and sheds, they can find the answers to all these questions. The information gathered will form the basis of their field study report.
Bogland Visit (1 hour)
Students visit a raised bog and are introduced to the history and geography and flora of Irish bogs.
The programme lasts 4 hours, and includes the Farm Walk, Bogland Visit and some fun cultural activities - Céilí dancing, bodhrán workshop and optional bog-jumping.
Junior Cert Ecology and Physics Field Trip
Scientific Study of an Eco-System (2 hours)
We investigate both the plants and animals in the habitat, using keys to identify each. This leads to the identification of a food web. We also look at the possible threats to this habitat and the individual plants and animals growing there. We use investigation equipment including pooters, a line transect, quadrants, magnification boxes, beating trays and a pitfall trap.
Physics Experiments (45 minutes)
To Show that Light Travels in Straight Lines and to Explain How Shadows are Formed - We use a blackened out room which gives these experiments real meaning. To Demonstrate and Explain the Use of a Simple Periscope - We make a ten foot high periscope which enables students to see things outside a very high window.
The programme lasts for 4 hours, which includes the above science programmes and an hour of farm fun - bog jumping, céilí dancing or farm visit.
2 Day Transition Year Team-building Trip
A programme of Fantastic Fun, Adventure, Personal Development and Teambuilding. The 2 day programme includes:
- A visit to Causey Farm, where the group will take part in numerous fun, educational and cultural activities - turf-cutting, céilí dancing, bog-jumping, making brown soda bread as well as fun and energetic team bonding exercises hosted by www.freshair.ie
- Overnight in Slane Farm Hostel - a beautifully converted coach-house and stables on a working farm www.slanefarmhostel.ie
- Hike up to the Hill of Slane
- Visit the Battle of the Boyne Site - a landmark in Irish history
- Visit Newgrange - our 5,000 year old World Heritage Site in the heart of the Boyne Valley
- Ice Skating in the Dundalk Ice Dome www.dundalkicedome.com
More details on our brochure - print it out here (PDF 603KB).