Youngsters enjoy a 'big breakfast' at Moreton Morrell
A slap-up breakfast with all the trimmings awaited 30
youngsters from a Coventry primary school as they visited
Warwickshire College’s Moreton Morrell centre this week.
As part of Farmhouse Breakfast Week the
pupils, from St. Patrick’s Primary School in Hillfields, visited
the college to find out more about food and farming. They
tucked into a bumper breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausages, beans,
toast and hash browns, before taken on a tour of the college’s
working farm by students.
The youngsters were shown the working dairy
parlour and discovered how milk was made by cows, before being
poured onto their breakfast cereal. Some of them even got to
have a go at milking a cut out cow!
They then met the beef cows and the sheep and
got to ask questions about where lamb and beef come from. Finally
they explored some farm machinery where they learnt about crops and
cereals.
The children, mostly from years five and six
at St Patrick’s, said that they had never been on a farm before,
and really enjoyed their full English breakfast.
The visit was organised by FACE (Farming and
Countryside Education) to promote the importance of eating
breakfast and giving children the opportunity to learn where their
food comes from.
School pupil Masylan, said: “I’ve really
enjoyed the trip. I wish I could have breakfast like this everyday.
And I really liked the cows, they were funny when they were rubbing
their heads together too!”
Fellow pupil Daryll also liked the cows and
said; “I like the cows best. I liked it when they moo-ed!’
The pupils will now put what they’ve learnt at
the college’s farm into their own projects at school.
Technical Academy Leader for agriculture at
Warwickshire College, Dr Diane Whitehouse said: “This is a
great community enterprise project for us. The students at college
get to pass on their knowledge to the school children, and the
school children learn about where their food comes from and see a
working farm in action.”
The college will now be open to the general
public on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 March for their annual farm
open weekend. Here families are welcome to learn more about food
and farming and see newborn lambs. Tickets are £2 each for adults
and £1 for children under 16. The farm will be open from 10am to
4pm.