DESCRIPTION
The Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) works with volunteers to provide free educational activities and experiential learning opportunities linked to Curriculum for Excellence.
Royal Highland Education Trust operate though Scotland. working with volunteers to provide free farm visits and classroom talks for school children.
We are a charity that works with farmers, teachers, educators and businesses alike to provide the best possible learning experience for children aged between 3 and 18 in Scotland.
Our Purpose
The purpose of RHET is to bring farming and the working countryside and its practices to life for young people.
What we do
We work with partners to provide and deliver world-leading learning opportunities for all Scotland’s young people aged 3 to 18 about, in and through the Scottish agricultural environment and the countryside.
RHET aims to provide the opportunity for every child in Scotland to learn about food, farming and the countryside and to create a wider understanding of the environmental, economic and social realities of rural Scotland.
This is achieved through a number of key activities:
- Farm visits for schools
- Classroom speaker talks by volunteer farmers
- Providing free educational resource materials for schools
- Outdoor education events across Scotland
- Competitions and projects for schools
- Training farmers and teachers in the delivery of information relating to food and farming
- The Royal Highland Show education programme for visiting schools and Children’s Education Centre
ORGANISATION ACTIVITIES
