The reception children from Sedgeberrow C of E First School came out to the farm. I had already met many of the children when they were at playgroup and so it was lovely to see how much they had grown since last summer. It was also very lovely to see that they were excited about being back on the farm and that they had remembered lots of ‘how to be safe on a real farm’. 

Our topic was farms and animals. The children were very good at thinking about which farm animals may live on my farm. After some prompting they also came up with lots of wild animals which may live on the farm. Some of them were hoping that I had tigers, hippos and a panda. 

We then went to see the baby calves and the children had chance to see how the calves ad-lib feed on the milk machines. They also learnt about id ear tags.

We then went to see the chickens and the children quickly spotted  my handsome cockerel. I asked them how they knew that he was the cockerel and that the others were hens. 

After that we went in search of some wild creatures in my pond. As the pond water is still very cold we didn’t find as much as we expected. Although I was very surprised to see that between the whole class we found hundreds of baby water boatmen and a tadpole (well done Mrs Green). 

The weather held off for the wood land play.