6 June 2016: Summer in the farming year
- Allotment – Snails a pest to farmers and gardeners. Have some fun with a snail race
- Grass at Last – We revisit the lambs we saw turned out after lambing and we see our calves getting their first taste of fresh grass
- Beetroot Seed & Ripe Tomatoes – We say strange beetroot seed planted and then the tomatoes we saw planted, sorted by robots, pollinated by bees are finally picked and sorted ready for you to enjoy in the shops.
NATIONAL CURRICULUM SUBJECTS LINKS.
Citizenship KS 1 + 2
E.g. Shows how farmers look after animals.
Relevant QCA Schemes of Work
Unit 3 Animals and Us
Design and Technology KS 1 + 2
Looks how farmers use modern technology to grow crops and provide fresh 5-a-day produce
Relevant QCA Schemes of Work
Unit 1c Eat More Fruit and Vegetables
Geography KS 1+2
Give examples of what the countryside around your schools ‘local’ area will contain.
Relevant QCA Schemes of Work
Unit 1. Around our school – the local area
Unit 6. Investigating our local area
Science KS 1 + 2
The videos have lots of science links to the units listed below for example:
Shows the start of plants life cycles and what parts of a plant we use and harvest.
Looks at how we can help bees so important to many of the plant food crops we rely on
Some of machinery could be used to discuss pushes and pulls.
Relevant QCA Schemes of Work
Unit 1B. Growing plants.
Unit 1E Pushes and Pulls.
Unit 2A Health and Grow.
Unit 2B Plants and Animals.
Unit 3B. Helping plants grow well.
Unit 4B Habitats.
Unit 5B. Life cycles.
Unit 6A Interdependence and adaptation.
These are just the links we thought of – please let us know if you make any more!
ECO SCHOOL TOPIC LINKS
With apologies if we are ‘teaching grandma to suck eggs’ here are some of our thoughts on how our videos link to the Eco School Topics
Showing pupils just which of their food products are grown in this country will give them important background knowledge when discussing transport, energy and global perspective of food production and the healthy living choices they make when they go to the shops.
Energy
Growing food and the associated energy costs of buying home grown food or imported food
Water
Use of water to grow plants
Biodiversity
How growing studying local habitats and where pest are found can help local biodiversity
School grounds
How the simple act of hunting for mini-beasts can help build up a picture of the school grounds in preparation for the design and creation of new features in your school grounds
Healthy living
How growing your own produce can promote healthy living by promoting a healthy diet and also promoting exercise in the act of growing that produce. The improvement of school ground can also aid mental well being.
Transport
Reduce transport costs of food by growing your own local produce.
Litter
When carrying out gardening tasks introduce children to tidy habits – pick up all packaging and dispose of ‘thoughtfully’ – see waste
When outside be it school, garden or countryside “Take only photos Leave only footprints!”
Waste
Explain that gardening and farming is and always has been synonymous with recycling. Re-use seed trays, compost is made from last years ‘recycled’ plants. Think twice abut where to put litter – bin or recycle?
Global citizenship
Explain how even the little things we do – where how food comes from, how much we recycle, our biodiversity, can affect the whole world be it good or bad!
