Students from a variety of different areas can apply for Work experience at The Collingwood Children's Farm. We have had placements from a large range of courses including, Veterinary Science, Teaching, Community Development, Agricultural Science, TAFE Animal Studies, Animal Science, Children's Services, Early Childhood Development, Education and International Development and Schools.

There are far more students seeking work experience than we can accommodate or properly train. Because of this we prefer to take on students that are looking to do placements of 2 or more weeks, as we feel that  more learning happens after the first week of training and a greater degree of independence can be achieved.

We ask all intending tertiary applicants to carefully address:
 - why they would like to do work experience at the Farm,
 - what their experience working with animals is and, 
 - what their understanding of  the Collingwood Children's Farm is.
Please indicate your available dates in your application. All applicants will be asked to come to the Farm for a Farm tour and interview.

Work experience students assist with a variety of activities tailored to their particular area of study. these can include assisting with animal chores, feeding, housing and handling animals, food production and harvesting, landcare, farm tours, working with groups and special events.

Students are encouraged to shadow farm staff for a while and then when confidence and skills develop they are encouraged to work both independently and as part of a team.

School aged students seeking work experience are asked to email the address below and an application form will be emailed back.

Tertiary applications for work experience at the Collingwood Children's Farm need to email us at   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   addressing the questions posed above. Also include what you are studying and where, when you are available to do work experience and the duration of time you will be doing work experience.