Hawthorns farm is a unique environment where students can learn and develop with nature
We offer a range of outdoor activities including; bushcraft, animal care and horticulture…
Hawthorns Farm
Located in Backwell near Bristol Airport
The centre is run and managed by Rob Morris and is a unique environment that encourages outdoor learning and self development for students that would normally struggle in a traditional classroom setting.
All our students thrive in the farm environment and have opportunity to learn a variety of skills and be responsible for tasks including animal care, site maintenance, growing vegetables, as well as bushcraft and living off the land.
Rob uses day-to-day farm tasks to help the students learn, quite often tasks involve working out the amount of materials required for site maintenance. This helps students use maths to ensure the day-to-day task is completed with all necessary resources.
Students also enjoy and grow in confidence especially when taking care of the animals as we have ducks, sheep and horses on the farm.
Our Students can choose from following:
Outdoor Learning & Animal Care
- Growing Vegetables
- Bushcraft
- Animal care
- Equine care
- Equipment maintenance
- Utilising natural resources
- Fence building/repairs
- Collecting wood
- Cooking
- Tree Climbing
- Shelter building
Personal Skills
- Self Awareness
- Respect
- Team work
- Co-operation
Useful / Resources
Call our team to enquire – Call 0333 220 3429
or email admin@miag.co.uk and we will reply promptly
Hawthorns Farm
Our Successes…
Working with mainstream schools since 2020
MIAG have had over 30 students that’s come to MIAG for different reasons, and we have worked with Schools and Local authorities to put them in to mainstream or specialist provision in the last 3 years.
Attendance is on average 89% over the last 3 years
There have been many reasons for disengagement from Education and MIAG Staff have been very creative in how to engage with the students and to work with them to engage them back slowly into Education with a different outlook from the school environment.
We offer Work Experience and Apprenticeships to year 11 students
Over the last 2 years we have had 8 Students moved onto Apprenticeships and work experience and MIAG will now be looking to expand this offer to year 11 students who do not want to do alternative route of College.