We met with Sam Wyman, who is a Dairy Farmer and works for LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) through a project called countryside classroom. LEAF Education works across the education, farming and food sectors to inspire, engage, and mobilise farmers, students, and teachers about the value of farming in a learning context.
Our pupils were invited to visit (virtually) a dairy farm in Warwickshire, to understand the processes of milk production. This links with many areas of the science curriculum for KS1/2 and many areas of the EYFS framework, it also links to the wider geographical and cultural understanding of the country in which we live.
The aim of the programme is to ensure that young people are better informed about how their personal food choices can make a difference to climate change and sustainability and to understand why farming matters. The children in Class 2 are pictured below, engaging in the virtual session with Farmer Sam, and were able to see some calves that had been born this week!
LEAF aims to provide opportunities that encourage more conscious consumers of the future who appreciate how their food is produced and to raise young people’s aspirations and highlight opportunities to enter the green job sector. This helps to ensure that our future generations inherit a world that that is eating, living, and growing sustainably.
