Environmental Education and Outdoor Learning

Flock of Ideas seminar - flier

Farm visits at lambing time are popular but school visits to flocks of sheep at any time of the year can provide a range of learning opportunities linked to the primary curriculum.
The programme at Mayfields Farm will include outdoor sessions with sheep and sheep dogs as well as practical and hands on sessions exploring learning opportunities for literacy, maths, science, history, PHSE and crafts.
This day will be of interest to both farmers and farm educators who work with school groups on farms and also teachers and teaching assistants who are planning farm visits and food and farming cross curricular projects.

Farmhouse Breakfast Week: 26th January - 1st February 2014

Farmhouse Breakfast Week aims to raise consumer awareness of the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast and demonstrate the variety of breakfast foods available in the UK. All stages of the food chain, from farmers to consumers (including schools) are being encouraged to hold events to promote the importance of starting the day with breakfast and to celebrate the wealth of wonderful breakfast produce available around the country.
The theme for FBW is 'Shake Up Your Wake Up' - go to www.shakeupyourwakeup.com for full details, to register your school to take part and to order free resources.
If you would like a FBW linked assembly or breakfast club activity for your school contact Moya Myerscough, the FACE (Farming and Countryside Education) Regional Co-ordinator. She will be visiting Norfolk schools on Wednesdays and Thursdays during January and still has some spaces in her diary. Assemblies are free and would either be on a 'Barn to Bowl' theme looking at the farm origin of the foods that are enjoyed at breakfast or about one breakfast food for example oats or eggs. The importance of breakfast for a healthy start to the day will be included. Contact Moya on moya@face-online.org.uk or telephone: 07870 832297.