INTERNATIONAL
SCHOOL-GROUPS
MILK A COW
LEARN THE BODHRAN
HELP THE SHEEPDOGS
Action packed, hands-on programme on a busy working farm. Come and gather the sheep, feed the pigs and cut the turf…
We’ll teach you a dance and have a session on the bodhráns. Everyone can make their own soda bread or cut a few sods of turf for the fire.
This is genuinely a superb way for groups to immerse themselves in Irish culture. Everyone says it is a highlight of their time in Ireland.
The programme 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.
Irish 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.
Team Building Challenges
Activities designed to encourage people to stretch their capabilities and to embrace teamwork.
Sheep Dog Demonstration
See how our dogs control the sheep and how they help the farmer with his work./p>
Meet the Farm Animals
cattle, hens, geese, pigs, Connemara ponies, goats and donkeys.
Make Soda Bread
Everyone makes their own brown bread and we eat it later with butter and jam and drinks.
Full Day Programme (up to 5 hours)
- Make Irish Soda Bread
- Hurling Lesson
- Trip to the Bog on the Tractor and Trailer
- Traditional Turf Cutting
- Bodhrán Workshop (Traditional Drum)
- Céilí Dancing Lesson
- Farm Visit and Milk a Cow
- Later in the day – for a snack, visitors eat their own bread with jam and fruit juice.
- Sheepdog Demonstration
Tastes of Irish Culture
Learn about living Irish culture on the farm and bog.
Half Day Programme (3 hours)
- Trip to The Bog on the Tractor andTrailer
- Traditional Turf Cutting
- Bodhran Class
- Ceili Dancing Lesson
- Farm Visit and Milk a Cow
- Sheepdog Demonstration